Restaurants

Olive Garden is a family of local restaurants focused on delighting every guest with a genuine Italian dining experience. They are proud to serve fresh, simple, delicious Italian food, complemented by a great glass of wine served in a comfortable, home like Italian setting where everyone is welcomed as family and friends. At Olive Garden, they want to offer you the experience of warmth and caring to extend beyond their restaurant walls and into every community where they live and serve. It is how they demonstrate their purpose.

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If you are Manhattan bound, reserve a spot at the Natural Gourmet Institute’s four course Friday Night Dinner. The site says the meals are vegetarian, but that usually means they just top the salad with some cheese, which you can ask them to leave off. That was the case when I went recently and everything was super delicious.

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There are several ways to keep a restaurant managed well. When applied, the following steps will ensure a good business and a safe, money making environment. When done correctly, hand washing is the single most effective way to prevent the spread of communicable diseases. Good hand washing technique is easy to learn and can significantly reduce the spread of infectious diseases among both children and adults.

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Everything in your restaurant has to have a home. We work in a busy and fast paced environment. You can not turn on a dime when you are always fumbling around. Take a look around your restaurant. Your restaurant should be idiot proof. The wet floor signs need a home just as much as the chicken tenders need a clear home within the walk in cooler. Using labels and shelf clips will help minimize the confusion more than you know. You can never be too organized. In the food business everyone should pride themselves in being the cleanest and most organized restaurant in town. When the cooks are online and there going through the dinner rush they also need to live by this rule. Seasoning shakers go back to the same place every time. The methodically ways in which we do things help save time, reduce clutter, and optimize efficiency.

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