Fine Dining

Meet the Chef: King Phojanakong

With a Filipino mother and Thai father, it would seem that Chef King Phojanakong is the ideal chef to bring Southeast Asian cooking to a wider audience.

Workforce

3 reasons it’s so hard to staff restaurants in 2017

And how restaurants are convincing staff to stick around against all odds.

How outsourcing tweets and posts stacks up against doing it yourself.

What is the difference between partial cooking, blanching and slacking foods? 

Think your job is a challenging? The industry leaders that made our inaugural power list have faced some big mountains in their tenure and scaled them masterfully.

Are there any formats you recommend for executive chef cooking tests?

Outsiders are clamoring for a say in what you and your staff should make. Business realities are absent from their prescriptions, but restaurants may not be blameless.

This Dallas institution, that still enforces a business-casual dress code, finally has shaken off its scandalous past, which included a bankruptcy filing and felony theft indictment of founder Bob Sambol.

“What’s on tap?” no longer is a question only beer-loving customers ask, as restaurant operators realize they can make their concepts buzzworthy and more efficient by adding unexpected beverages to the bar tap.

As the 2014 Restaurant Growth Index shows, consumers continue to loosen their purse strings and indulge in restaurant dining while on vacation.

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