What is your meal signature?

Do you run a restaurant, bakery or any related venture? You need to run that venture with a signature.

Many local restaurateur, chef or baker want to always try out different recipe on their meals. And in cases where the owner is not the chef and he/she hires a chef, that chef comes with his/her own recipe. Wrong. Do not continue to serve different taste of the same meal to your customers every other day. Of course this can be permitted in the very early few days of your starting (it is indeed terrible enough that you do not have a planned out recipe before you commence operation), or if you are trying to change your recipe because of customers' feedback. But on the whole, you MUST have a signature recipe/meal production plan that every chef you hire must respect. Even if they are going to tinker with it, the variation should be so mild it can be ignored.

Most people who have chosen your bread, cakes, and other confectionery and indeed your restaurant have done so because of the taste that they have come to know and possibly love. Stay with it.

You may introduce new products that customers may want to try but keep the regular, regular. Not every customer is so forgiving of your "creativity". Learn from the big brands, a KFC is a KFC, a McDonald's is a McDonald's, a Chicken Republic is a Chicken Republic... everywhere you go; even as franchised ventures, they never alter their recipe because of a pro chef they may have employed. Need I add that patronized can almost describe the taste of food in Amala joint and you'll find it so anytime you visit. If you run a chain of hotels in various places, the same should apply to all restaurants in your hotels.

Document your recipe and ensure that it guides the production of your meals. When it comes to food business, consistency in taste is key. Stamp your signature on your meals. 

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