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How to handle custom menu challenges

 By FSD Staff on Jan. 15, 2016

Question:How are you handling your biggest challenges with customizable menu items?Answers from FSD's Culinary CouncilCustomizable menus provide our guests with flexibility and a sense of pampering, b...

People

Can you train employees to be nice?

 By FSD Staff on Jan. 15, 2016

When you’re interviewing someone to work in your operation, you need to look at behavioral traits. Those can be part of your criteria when you’re hiring.

Steal This Idea

Offer incentives for thinking green

Jan. 15, 2016

Eighty percent of Northwest Community Hospital's customers are our employees, so asking them to participate in the reusable-container program was easy.

Operations

Author Deb Lucke discusses 'The Lunch Witch'

By FSD Staff on Jan. 15, 2016

Deb Lucke provides a bit of levity for FSDs in her latest graphic novel, “The Lunch Witch,” which compares making potions to lunch ladies cooking.

Design

Exhibition cooking brings menu trends to life

By Lisa Arnett on Jan. 15, 2016

In order to continue delivering on display cooking's wow factor, operators are bringing different pieces of equipment into the consumer's view.

Operations

Minn. district sees boost in foodservice participation since revamp

By FSD Staff on Jan. 15, 2016

Changes included implementing “garden bars” at all schools, as well as build-your-own meal options such as a weekly taco bar.

Operations

Resolving to be more sustainable in 2016

By Dana Moran on Jan. 15, 2016

Deputy Editor Dana Moran spoke to many smart, innovative operators about sustainability initiatives in 2015. Here are favorites she hopes you’ll steal.

People

What qualities do younger managers need?

By FSD Staff on Jan. 15, 2016

To earn respect, you have to listen to people and take an interest in them. You have to know where you’re going and set up opportunities for them to buy in.

Steal This Idea

Slicing cherry tomato prep time

Jan. 15, 2016

Nick Mercogliano turns plastic lids from takeout containers inside-out, places cherry tomatoes in between two lids, then draws a knife across the rows.

Menu

Indian spices lighten up stuffed potatoes

By Patricia Cobe on Jan. 15, 2016

To create a healthier but gratifying version of a normally calorie-ridden stuffed baked potato, Chuck Hatfield took a few cues from Indian cuisine.

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