You’ve made your dream of opening a restaurant: Congratulations! The hard part is out of the way. Or is it? Unfortunately, opening the doors is only half the battle. It will get easier as you learn the ropes and understand the business, but some things never seem to be easy. One of those is hiring,FIND OUT MORE |

As a restaurant owner/manager, one of the most difficult problems you will have, hands down, is finding and keeping reliable employees. Working in a restaurant is never easy, no matter what your job is, and with restaurants on every corner of every city, you can lose good employees quickly if they don’t feel appreciated. StartupFIND OUT MORE |

Many people dream of owning a restaurant; it seems like a fun and exciting business in which you can make a lot of money. Unfortunately, this is far from the truth. In actuality, operating a successful restaurant is difficult even for seasoned food industry veterans. This is because trends change, and competition is unbelievably tough.FIND OUT MORE |

If you’re like a lot of cooks, you probably throw out potato peelings, citrus rinds and the cores of your lettuce. While you may think these parts of your food are useless, they actually have plenty of uses, both in and out of the kitchen. While you probably won’t be able to use up everyFIND OUT MORE |

Ever wonder what you can do as a restaurant owner to make your staff more productive? Doing so will not only make your restaurant run more efficiently, but will increase both your profits and that of your wait staff. This will keep your wait staff more satisfied, resulting in less turnover and higher profits. Check outFIND OUT MORE |

  If you own a restaurant, you know that you need a variety of employees to make the operation run. In addition to your kitchen staff — line cooks, sous chefs, and expediters — you need the right people to take care of customers. Even if your food is the best in the world, ifFIND OUT MORE |

If you want to get serious about cooking, you need to start where the action is: Your cooktop. There are three types of ranges you can choose from: Electric, Gas, and Induction. Each has their own benefits, as well as downsides, and choosing which is right for you depends on several factors. Sometimes, you don’tFIND OUT MORE |

When you think of an apron, you probably think of cooking, but aprons are used in all types of industries. Think about the main purpose of an apron: to keep your clothes from getting stained. It sounds like an inexpensive tool that does a simple job, but depending on what you’re doing in it, anFIND OUT MORE |

If you have a small kitchen, you don’t want to clog up your cabinets and drawers with single use items, especially if you don’t use them often. Even if you do have space, why store something if it doesn’t prove to be extremely useful? Luckily, many kitchen items can do more than one thing, andFIND OUT MORE |

If you’ve never spent a lot of time in a restaurant kitchen, you may think that the culinary uniform is outdated, stuffy, and pointless, but you could not be more wrong. While the look of the traditional uniform is, in fact, stark and severe, the usefulness of it is not. Each piece serves a specificFIND OUT MORE |