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Personal Chefs Carve Out a Career
To carve out a successful career as a personal chef, it takes more than a passion for food. Personal chefs prepare meals for their clients to save them effort and time, and to tantalize their taste buds or fulfill special dietary needs. This type of chef works out of a client's kitchen or from a certified offsite location.

Design Center Power User Guide
Note: for basic Design Center help, please refer to our Design Center Help Section. The Design Center is still in beta, meaning that we are continually improving its ease of use and capabilities. These tips may help you get the most from our current Design Center version.

A Good Cup of Tea is a Profitable Cup
Are you one of those restaurateurs who has dropped the ball when it comes to tea? If your customers aren't praising your tea, chances are you've missed that particular boat. Which is a shame, because this boat floats in a sea of potential profit.

Increasing Sales with Your Restaurant Menu
Profits flagging? Sales of what should be your most popular items slower than you hoped? If your menu is in need of revamp, not to worry. A few simple tricks can lead to increased profits and a more consistent feel for your restaurant. Setting higher price points is the easiest way to try to increase your menu's profitability.
Menu Pricing
Finding your maximum menu profit involves more than just great food. Pricing - do it right, and right from the start. Estimate the actual cost of a menu item, delivery-to-diner. Include delivery fees, cooking costs and employee wages in addition to the wholesale cost of the ingredients.

Basic Restaurant Menu Layout
Menu layout is obviously specific to your restaurant, event, or family. Brainstorm a bit, thinking about what makes yours unique. What imagery will be appropriate? What colors do you want to use? Describe your ideal menu in 3 words. The thoughts that come to mind will help you to give your menu a unique style and flavor all its own.

Restaurant Menu Design Tips
Do you need a few pointers on putting together a tantalizing menu that will increase sales for your most popular items? Then you have come to the right place. Menu design can be a tricky business, but with a few helpful tricks you can create your own profitable layout with ease.

Restaurant Recipes: Open to the Public?
Andrea Burton is a regular at several cafes and coffee shops in her small city. She frequents one cafe near her house in the mornings, another three or four at lunchtimes near her office, and several evenings a week chooses from three or more in the downtown core. She likes the live jazz at one place, wouldn't drink anything but the Dragonwell green tea at the other place, and regularly orders food to go from the small soup and bread specialty cafe just down the block.