How My Restaurant Works
You don’t need to be an expert in restaurants, you just need to be an expert in running your restaurant.
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Start Here: How My Restaurant Works (opens the original)
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Somewhere between the dream of opening a restaurant and the reality of running one, most owners discover that what catches them off guard isn’t the competition, or the lease, or the food cost. It’s that everything happens at once.The menu needs an overhaul at the same moment the team is falling apart. The finances are a mess and the dining room needs a refresh. The brand feels right, but the operations can’t keep pace with the vision. Every fire seems independent. Every solution seems to create
Automatic Noodle (opens the original)
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Courtney, Miranda, and I discuss Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz—a short sci-fi story set in a post-war, independent California where robots technically have rights, but not always the ability to move through the world with real freedom. The book follows a group of abandoned food service robots who wake up in a ghost kitchen and decide to open a hand-pulled noodle shop.Get this: for a book about robots making noodles, this one felt surprisingly close to home. We ended up talking less about th
Kitchen Construction Project Guide for Independent Chefs (opens the original)
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Kitchen renovations are super exciting until they interrupt service, inspections are delayed, and end up costing more than expected.Pilot Light Consulting has supported kitchen construction projects across multiple states over the past decade. Projects often start with enthusiasm—new equipment, improved workflow, better service—but without proper planning and sequencing, they become expensive lessons in what not to do.This guide provides a structured approach to managing kitchen equipment upgrad
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