Recipes and Specs
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The One-Ingredient-Swap Test for Any Cocktail Menu
Before any menu I've built goes live, I run it through one test. Can every cocktail survive losing one ingredient and still ship as a sellable drink?...
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Seasonal Menu Rotation Without Rebuilding Your Par Sheet
Seasonal menus are great marketing and a logistical disaster if you don't build them the right way....
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Spec Cards vs. Recipe Books. Why I Stopped Printing Books.
Recipe books get left in the office. I've seen it at every bar I've ever worked in or consulted with. Someone puts real effort into a binder, prints...
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The House Syrup Program: Four Syrups, Six Cocktails Each
Four syrups. That's all a cocktail menu needs if you build the menu around the syrups instead of building the syrups around the menu....
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Garnish Prep: The Yield Sheet That Pays for Itself
Garnishes look like a small budget line until you look at them correctly....
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Batching Math: The Formula I Use for Every Cocktail Menu
Batching is one of the best tools you have for speed and consistency during service. It's also one of the easiest to mess up if you don't account for...
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How to Write a Spec That a New Bartender Can Actually Read
A spec card that a new bartender can't read is not a spec card. It's a test....
