kaffeenjunkie | March 28, 2009
Last week we did an Egg Salad promotion. All I can say is wow did I get it wrong. My expectation of the response, that is. I really didn’t expect all that much after all, I thought; its just freaking egg salad. We created seven different recipes for egg salad pus the original and we sold over 50 [...]
kaffeenjunkie | March 28, 2009
We hit the food shows this week. Sysco and Gordon Food Service strutted their stuff, so to speak. We did take away a couple ideas from the shows but was it really enough to justify the two days we spent? Time will tell. The one thing that really strikes home, overall, was the vast amount of pre-made, [...]
kaffeenjunkie | March 22, 2009
Not that we have gone global or even been to France. We put a “free report” on an automated email response last year. An innocuous report on how to best to treat Mom on Mothers Day. You know, “Click here and get our free report.” This report has been bouncing around on the Internet courtesy [...]
kaffeenjunkie | March 20, 2009
It was my birthday the other day. I hate to go out on my birthday with the St Pat’s revelers. I much prefer to work in the kitchen piling corned beef on slabs of braised cabbage and then enjoy a beer at home. It stopped being fun after about 23 or 24. I don’t think a green beer has [...]
kaffeenjunkie | March 17, 2009
Or how to spend a Saturday afternoon. We spent this past Saturday in the garage. We didn’t sweep it out. We didn’t organize the rusted and unused garden tools. We didn’t clean off my workbench. (I know its under there somewhere) We didn’t clean the layer of dust and cobwebs off the patio furniture. Didn’t uncover the [...]
kaffeenjunkie | March 6, 2009
As restaurateurs it is our job to make other people happy with the food and service that we provide. That is the way it is, that is the way we want it. In our business rarely do guests beyond frequent patronage of our restaurant, a word of thanks in the moment and a gratutity for the [...]
kaffeenjunkie | March 2, 2009
Today was our first day back to work after spending a few days in Las Vegas for the Catersource conference. Our staff did a wonderful job of keeping the places going while we were gone. We are grateful for the level of competence exhibited by our team. It was almost like we never left! (except for [...]
