SWING & A MICH
This style of cuisine is the most awarded in NYC, with 19 of these restaurants holding Michelin status in 2024.
What is Japanese cuisine?
What are well spirits?
lower-cost, house liquors that bartenders use frequently to make mixed drinks, stored in the speed-rail area for easy access.
This refers to wine that has been contaminated with a chemical compound which causes a musty, moldy, or wet cardboard-like aroma and taste, rendering the wine unpalatable.
What is corked wine?
a system where all or some of the tips collected by employees are combined and redistributed fairly among eligible staff
What is a tip pool?
This law prevents employers from using tip credits to satisfy New York minimum wage requirements if the employee spends more than two hours, or 20% of a shift, doing non-tipped work
What is the 80/20 rule?
There are only 2 Italian restaurants that received Michelin acknowlegement in 2024. What are they?
What are Rezdora and Torrisi?
A drink made with a specific, higher-priced brand of liquor that the customer requests
What is a "call" spirit?
a winemaking approach that emphasizes minimal intervention, using organically or biodynamically grown grapes and avoiding additives like artificial yeasts, chemicals, or excessive filtering, aiming to produce a wine that is a pure expression of the grapes and terroir.
What is natural wine?
Distinct operating units within a business responsible for generating sales
Examples include The Bar, MDR, Lounge and PDR
What are revenue centers?
A book containing essential lessons in hospitality for every business, from the former co-owner of legendary restaurant Eleven Madison Park Will Guidara
What is Unreasonable Hospitality?
The wave of modernized cooking predominantly served at upscale fine dining restaurants in the United States, originating in the 1980s, generally a type of fusion cuisine with a focus on fresh, local, and seasonal farm-to-table ingredients
What is New American/Contemporary Cuisine?
This whiskey must be made in the United States, containing at least 51% corn in its mash, and must be distilled to a proof no higher than 160, aged in new charred oak barrels, and bottled at no less than 80 proof
What is bourbon?
the vegetal / grassy / bell peppery compounds in most sauvignon family grapes
what are pyrazines?
According to the secret shopper reports from all locations, 56% of sales team members in all restaurant locations are not offering THIS to guests
What is an after dinner drink?
If you sold just 4 coffees a night, your sales would increase by an average of $4,160 a year, leaving you with about $832 in tips! Now imagine what selling after-dinner cocktails could do to your check average…
NYS Paid Sick Leave, Pay Equity, Salary History and Sexual Harassment Prevention Policy & Training are examples of these...
What are Protective Laws?
Michelin rates restaurants on these five criteria:
"quality of products", "mastery of flavor and cooking techniques", "the personality of the chef represented in the dining experience", "value for money", and "consistency between inspectors' visits"
This designation means the whiskey is aged for a minimum of four years, bottled at 100 proof, and distilled at one distillery by one distiller in a single distillation season.
What is "Bottled in bond"?
This refers to the practice of stirring the lees (dead yeast cells and other sediment) back into the wine, which is often done to enhance texture, aroma, and complexity.
What is battonage?
We have sold the MOST of THIS ITEM since opening
What are oysters?
Often referred to as "the Playbook", Danny Meyer's memoir and general guide to restaurant business shares the lessons he learned developing the dynamic philosophy he calls Enlightened Hospitality
What is Setting the Table?
There are 5 restaurants in NYC with 3 Michelin Stars. for 1000 points, name all 5.
Jungsik, Masa, Le Bernadin, Per Se, Eleven Madison Park
This brand was established in 1879 by Lars Olsson Smith. Smith challenged the city of Stockholm's liquor marketing monopoly by selling his product outside the city border at a lower price, offering free boat rides to the distillery.
What is Absolut?
Unlike red wines, white wines are made without extended contact between the grape skins and the juice, so they generally have comparatively lower levels of this polyphenol known for its potential health properites
What is resveratrol?
The European import tax expected to go into effect April 1st would impose a 50% tax on American Whiskey. In a social media post, President Trump threatened to retaliate by implementing...
200% Tariff on all WINES, CHAMPAGNES, & ALCOHOLIC PRODUCTS COMING OUT OF FRANCE AND OTHER E.U. REPRESENTED COUNTRIES,” Trump wrote. “This will be great for the Wine and Champagne businesses in the U.S.”
"Hey, did you try that blue drink, the one that glows like nuclear waste? The watermelon margarita? Any idea why it tastes like some combination of radiator fluid and formaldehyde?"
What Chef is this SCATHING review about?
Who is Guy Fieri?
What is Guy's American Bar & Grill?