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Food Entrepreneurship
Take a deep-dive exploration into food entrepreneurship! Explore the exciting realm of creating your own culinary venture from scratch, whether it’s launching your own food truck, at-home catering business, restaurant, and more.
How to Choose the Best Location for Your Food Truck
How to choose a location for your food truck? Start by finding the friendliest food truck cities, and sites with parking or plenty of foot traffic.
How Much Money Can Food Trucks Make?
Find out how much money the average food truck makes in a year. How much of that could the food truck owner keep, and how much should they save?
The 5 Best Food Truck POS Systems
A food truck POS system can help you manage sales, inventory, marketing, and more. Here are the top five systems you should consider for your food truck
How Much Can a Food Truck Cost?
Find out how much it could cost to buy and equip a food truck. Plus costs for licensing and permitting, parking and prep space rentals, and more.
How Important Is It to Have Vegan Options on Your Menu?
Now more than ever, plant-based food is reaching new heights! Here’s how to introduce more vegan menu options and ways to become a skilled vegan chef.
How GLEAM & Escoffier’s Mentorship Program Can Guide Aspiring Entrepreneurs
Escoffier has teamed up with the GLEAM network to offer mentorship opportunities to student and alumni entrepreneurs. Check out these success stories!
The Pros and Cons of Becoming an Uber Eats Restaurant Partner
If you want to offer food delivery, consider working with a delivery company. Here are some of the pros and cons of becoming an Uber Eats restaurant partner.
Ghost Kitchens & Ghost Restaurants: What Are They and How Do You Start One?
Everything you need to know about ghost kitchens and ghost restaurants: an alternative restaurant model with lower startup and operating costs.
4 Keys to Running a Cottage Industry Bakery
Do you want to start a bakery business from home? Before you begin, consider these four tips to running a cottage industry bakery.
What to Know When Opening a Vegetarian or Vegan Restaurant
Are you thinking about opening a vegetarian or vegan restaurant? Here are several key things to consider when opening a plant-based restaurant or café.
How to Build a Delivery-Friendly Menu
If you want to properly serve customers looking for meals to-go, you’ll need to design a delivery-friendly menu. Here’s how to do just that.
How to Patent or Trademark a Culinary Food Product
If you want to protect your culinary creation, you might consider a patent or trademark. Here’s what these terms mean, and when you may need to use them.
Positioning Statements for Restaurant Marketing
What is a positioning statement, and how do restaurants position themselves? We’ll show you how restaurants can set themselves up for success through positioning.
Veteran Lance McWhorter Finds a Home in the Kitchen After His Military Service
Army and Navy veteran Lance McWhorter shares his successful journey from military to contractor to executive chef & restaurant owner. Get inspired!
Escoffier Graduate Talks About Going Plant-Based — in Culinary School and in Life
Meet plant-based chef, entrepreneur, and Escoffier graduate Shane Witters Hicks, and get his advice for vegetarian students attending culinary school.
From Kenya to Colorado: Chef Arnold Safari on Starting a Restaurant During COVID-19
Learn how Chef Safari made Colorado his new home, and how he knew he was ready to start a restaurant during the coronavirus pandemic.
How to Purchase the Right Furniture for Your Restaurant
Before making a large and important investment in furniture for your restaurant keep these four factors in mind.
How to Incorporate Sustainable Practices in Your Restaurant
This is how you can incorporate sustainable practices in your restaurant and increase your customers.
Escoffier Alumna Tiffany Moore Gets Her Restaurant Funded
How US Army veteran Tiffany Moore overcame health challenges to pursue her dream of opening a new restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia.
3 Tips for Properly Managing Food Costs
Proper food cost management is the difference between a restaurant that struggles and one that thrives. Learn three tips to help protect your bottom line!
Escoffier Graduate Quyen Trinh Elevates the Vietnamese Dining Experience by opening Anise Modern Vietnamese Eatery
Quyen Trinh is a graduate of the Escoffier Diploma in Culinary Arts program at the Boulder Campus and owner of...
Visible Sanitation is Now an Unspoken Marketing Requirement for Restaurants
Visible sanitation practices are more important than ever. Here are some ways you can show customers you’re getting them right...and earn their trust.
How Will Restaurant Consumers Change Behavior in the Post-COVID-19 Economy?
What does the future hold for restaurants? What are the permanent changes we can expect from consumer behavior, and how will restaurants need to adapt?
How the 2020 CARES Act Benefits Restaurants
The CARES Act offers direct relief for restaurants and food service businesses struggling financially due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn about the different benefits available for the industry during this tough time.
Does Seafood Have a Place on Your Menu?
Seafood can be an especially popular offering in a variety of restaurant settings, but it requires some special considerations and safety procedures.
How Important Is Your Food’s – and Your Restaurant’s – Story?
An engaging narrative behind a restaurant and its foods can help attract customers and make a business stand out from the competition.
How to Build Complementary Menus and Minimize Waste
Now more than ever, culinary students in Boulder should pay close attention to sustainability trends - especially those with sights set on the local market.
How to Make the Most of a Health Inspection
As part of their education, students studying through the online culinary arts school will learn the ins and outs of food safety.
Business and Entrepreneurship: The Other ‘Arts’ of Culinary School
There is another art to the culinary industry - that of business and entrepreneurship. Culinary school helps you prepare for both.
How Sound Influences the Way Customers Eat
Sound may not seem like it has a major impact on how customers enjoy their meals, but it can drastically influence taste and perception.
Digital Dining: Using ‘the Cyber’ to Enrich the Dining Experience
Let's examine just a few examples of how restaurants are using technology to augment management and contribute to the dining experience.
4 Tips for Implementing Brunch in Your Restaurant
In recent years, brunch has become a staple of many patrons' weekend plans.
Escoffier Culinary Student Run Pop Up Restaurant Series
BOULDER, Colo., June 14, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — In an exciting venture for Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts in Boulder, the...
