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Food Styling Essentials for Social Media
By investing time and effort into food styling, you can transform these images into captivating visuals that can enhance your customer count

David B Townsend
Apr 23, 20244 min read
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Basic Wedding Food Planning
Many venues either require a full-service caterer or use of their own on-site kitchen to provide food services. Once you're comfortable with

David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20214 min read
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Become an Event Destination- An Asset to your Community
Event Management takes skills in marketing and logistics, If you're a restaurant, B & B or winery potential niche market if you plan ahead.

David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20213 min read
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Introducing: Ambrosia-the food blog
David Townsend follows restaurants, food products, and marketing trends. His career began on the Monterey Peninsula as a Bartender...

David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20211 min read
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Logistics for Outdoor Events
If you're a restauranteur or boutique hotel looking to expand into the lucrative Wedding / Event business in Northern California, a ...

David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20212 min read
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Amazon & Whole Foods- this changes everything in food service-
You can't be in the food business and not have prepared, easily combined meal portions "to go." Food service is now about more than seated

David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20215 min read
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Off-Site Event Planning- Logistics 101
In organizing the event, several steps need to have started days, weeks, or even months ahead of time. It's the “Day-of” the Event that I

David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20216 min read
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Townsend's Consulting-Fee
fees are negotiable- travel vs home time is billed at different rates

David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20212 min read
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Photography for Social Media
create a dedicated area somewhere that can be preset with good lighting and offer a variety of backdrops, you could plate food and shoot.

David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20211 min read
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Web Design using WIX
choose your best suited template and build the initial site without you having the learning curve of navigating new a software program.

David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20211 min read
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10 Priorities in Restaurant Operations-an Evaluation
operations check list for restaurants

David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20212 min read
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Branding is just the first step in Marketing a Restaurant
Visuals show off your food. Branding has to do with quality of your photo as well as your food.

David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20219 min read
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What Branding Means in Food Service?
Your 'Brand' communicates your value and appeal to a potential guest. Let them know what makes your business unique. If you're known for...

David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20212 min read
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Importance of Food Styling for Restaurants
It begins before any element of cooking begins. Deciding how to build the presentation will dictate the methods and the plating.

David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20212 min read
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Service: Your Competitive Edge in Foodservice
In a recent article from Jillian Kramer writing for food & wine.com ( March 23, 2018) talks about the dynamic changes coming to the...

David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20213 min read
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Restaurateurs: 3 Fundamental Marketing Functions
3 TIPS, 3 FUNDAMENTAL MARKET FUNCTIONS, Signature Menu Items, Run High Food Costs, Design Visually for Social Media.

David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20214 min read
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Tilapia, Not on my Table!
According to some studies farm raised Tilapia is more detrimental to heart health than eating bacon or a hamburger.

David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20214 min read
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Elements of Visual Marketing
Here is a punch list of visual elements to consider when developing a marketing plan. Beginning with store décor, merchandising, and color

David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20214 min read
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Menu Descriptions Create Expectation and Exploration
Antonio Ayestan caters the biggest outdoor event at Empire Mine SHP, for Sierra Nevada Hospital Foundation. His Filet is always a hit

David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20213 min read
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Daunting Tasks of Creating and Marketing a Restaurant
Creating a restaurant is Daunting, It requires an awareness of food and design trends, technology; sales tracking, costs, and marketing.

David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20214 min read
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