Author Archives for grahilio719

NO SHOW – NO DOUGH

January 2, 2018 10:06 pm Published by Comments Off on NO SHOW – NO DOUGH A google search for ‘No Shows in Restaurants’ turned up 97,300,000 matches. Goes to show that this issue is pretty ... ...

OPEN LETTER TO OFFICIALDOM

July 1, 2016 9:51 pm Published by Comments Off on OPEN LETTER TO OFFICIALDOM Irish officialdom may need to examine its conscience in relation to how it is making increasingly stressful, conflicting, challenging and ... ...

DOES KINDNESS HAVE A PLACE?

March 23, 2016 10:05 pm Published by Comments Off on DOES KINDNESS HAVE A PLACE? Failte Ireland tweeted this morning about the great news that 190 New Chefs have just finished a ten week training ... ...

WHO WOULD BE SELF EMPLOYED

February 19, 2016 10:08 pm Published by Comments Off on WHO WOULD BE SELF EMPLOYED The Self Employed Who in their right mind would be self employed in Ireland today? Government bodies, ministers, wanna be ... ...

WHY ARE WE STILL TALKING ABOUT CALORIES

November 27, 2015 10:22 pm Published by Comments Off on WHY ARE WE STILL TALKING ABOUT CALORIES Why are we Talking about Calories when Sugar seems to be the Problem? The Irish government is in the process ... ...

Food On the Edge of the Future

October 23, 2015 10:23 pm Published by Comments Off on Food On the Edge of the Future Food on the edge, the two day chef conclave in Galway was easily the most enjoyable, informative and thought provoking ... ...

What’s a Word got to Do with it?

October 16, 2015 10:19 pm Published by Comments Off on What’s a Word got to Do with it? The great American Restaurateur Danny Meyer has a lot to say about hospitality, and as the owner of a great ... ...

We Need to Talk About The Customer

August 31, 2015 10:30 pm Published by Comments Off on We Need to Talk About The Customer Georgina Campbell  of Georgina Campbell  Ireland Guides recently noted “Many a good kitchen is let down by front of house, ... ...

When Cooking is no longer Fun

August 19, 2015 10:25 pm Published by Comments Off on When Cooking is no longer Fun Taking a perfect apple pie from the oven, transforming a bowl of ruby raspberries to a soft summer fool, poaching ... ...

5 Tips for Opening a Cafe

August 12, 2015 10:33 pm Published by Comments Off on 5 Tips for Opening a Cafe A café or restaurant is like an orchestra. If you have ever seen and heard one in full and perfect ... ...

I’m Over Slates, What’s Wrong with Plates?

July 18, 2015 10:36 pm Published by Comments Off on I’m Over Slates, What’s Wrong with Plates? A curious change has come over the restaurant/café/pub industry in recent years which I have been watching with interest. Many ... ...

Brutal Service, Spectacular Disconnection

December 18, 2013 11:34 pm Published by Comments Off on Brutal Service, Spectacular Disconnection Georgina Campbell recently commented on what she felt are the poor levels of service in the hospitality sector in Ireland. ... ...

Death of a Restaurant- Who Cares?

August 19, 2011 10:37 pm Published by Comments Off on Death of a Restaurant- Who Cares? What does it really matter when another restaurant closes? It is just another business corpse to be tossed on the ... ...

Selling More Food – There is no Magic Bullet!

June 1, 2011 10:40 pm Published by Comments Off on Selling More Food – There is no Magic Bullet! ‘It’s a question of doing the ordinary things extraordinarily well.’ (F.Prager- Founder of Movenpick) Irish Publicans are very good at ... ...

FARMERS JOURNAL

April 22, 2011 10:43 pm Published by Comments Off on FARMERS JOURNAL Doing for caterers what Feargal Quinn did for shops in his TV series Retail Therapy, professional restaurant adviser Blathnaid Bergin ... ...

REINVENTION NEEDED

April 21, 2011 10:58 pm Published by Comments Off on REINVENTION NEEDED QUESTION I run a 60-seater restaurant in a reasonably busy market town in the South East. Our offering is not ... ...

MAKE FOOD WORK IN YOUR PUB

April 21, 2011 10:45 pm Published by Comments Off on MAKE FOOD WORK IN YOUR PUB Pub Challenge Another Pub is in trouble. Money has been carefully spent on refurbishing it in an effort to entice ... ...

TV3 INTERVIEW

February 10, 2011 10:59 pm Published by Comments Off on TV3 INTERVIEW We were on TV3 – The Morning Show yesterday morning.   ...

INDEPENDENT – BOF

February 2, 2011 11:00 pm Published by Comments Off on INDEPENDENT – BOF Can restaurateurs return to school to boost their profits? Blathnaid Bergin says there is more to running a successful food ... ...

IRISH EXAMINER – BOF

January 10, 2011 11:02 pm Published by Comments Off on IRISH EXAMINER – BOF Check us out in The Irish Examiner – January 8th 2011 Download the PDF here ...

COMFORT: CARE: SAFE

January 5, 2011 11:04 pm Published by Comments Off on COMFORT: CARE: SAFE January 5th 2011. The New Year period saw frantic efforts to inject joy, optimism and all round good cheer into ... ...

THE RISK TAKERS

November 28, 2010 11:05 pm Published by Comments Off on THE RISK TAKERS Having just completed the first exhilirating and energising 12 Week Certificate Course in Restaurant & Kitchen Management at the School ... ...

CORK HOSPITALITY

September 27, 2010 11:23 pm Published by Comments Off on CORK HOSPITALITY Trying to define what makes a restaurant great is like trying to catch a moonbeam and hold it in your ... ...

LIFT OFF

September 13, 2010 11:24 pm Published by Comments Off on LIFT OFF August 23rd 2010 and a group of very enthusiastic people with a dream to open a food service business hit ... ...

GETTING TO GRIPS WITH YOUR KITCHEN

July 26, 2010 11:26 pm Published by Comments Off on GETTING TO GRIPS WITH YOUR KITCHEN Many publicans would much prefer that someone else would worry about their food operation while they look after what they ... ...

CROATIAN ODYSSEY

July 20, 2010 11:06 pm Published by Comments Off on CROATIAN ODYSSEY For a country which has been gifted with some of the greatest natural food resources in europe, Croatians take their ... ...

CROATIA

July 8, 2010 11:07 pm Published by Comments Off on CROATIA Croatia is an interesting country. we are in southern croatia, about 20 minutes south of Dubrovnik in a gorgeous seaside ... ...