Food Republic | Restaurants, Reviews, Recipes, Cooking Tips (2024)

FAQs

Can you ask for a recipe at a restaurant? ›

Unless it's a secret recipe, the restaurant will share it

"It was part of our contracts. So some people just didn't understand that and got mad at us." Hospitality is important in the restaurant industry, but customers aren't entitled to the recipe, which means a yes isn't always guaranteed.

ALWAYS ASK! My Mom got so many recipes over the years by just asking when she came across something really good in a restaurant. Don't be shy ... go ahead and ask. Lots of chefs are happy to tell you how much they know (unless they're really badly in-the-weeds busy).

“Would you please share your recipe with me?” is one polite way to ask. Some people will straight up share their recipe. Other folks may tell you that it's a family recipe that they won't share.

For recipe development without a photo, half the people charge at least $250 per recipe and a great majority charge at least $200. The maximum most developers have made per recipe is between $300 and $400 but a significant number have made over $700 per recipe.

Preparation Techniques

Home cooks, on the other hand, often have to make do with basic kitchen equipment and don't always have the luxury of devoting as much time and attention to each dish. This can result in unevenly cooked food that lacks the same depth of flavor as restaurant dishes.

One of these factors is the ingredients and equipment. Lack of ingredients or the special type of kitchen equipment can affect the taste of food. As the restaurant has access to all these, home cooking is at a loss here. Time preparation is another factor.

If you're a home cook or a professional chef, consistency is key. Tasting spoons help ensure the quality of your food as they can be used as stirring spoons, too. They are great for corporate gifting or to surprise cooking connoisseurs you know.

My Cheat Sheet for Identifying a Good Recipe

Look for recipes that have the following: Ingredient measurements in multiple formats (weight, volume, size). Context clues for timing of each relevant piece of cooking instruction. Explanations on why certain steps are important to the recipe process.

How to know if a recipe is good? ›

It's all about balance and contrast, about how different flavors make each other taste better. Sweet, salty, tangy, sour, earthy, creamy, tart, crunchy, smooth, meaty... balanced flavors and textures make recipes work. Just look at the show Chopped and notice how the ingredients are actually pretty balanced.

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Generally, there is no absolute legal obligation for restaurants to disclose every ingredient used in their meals. However, restaurants do have a duty of care to their customers, meaning they should take reasonable steps to ensure the safety of the food they serve.

Even if the description of the recipe is sufficiently creative and copyrightable, the copyright will not cover the recipe's ingredient list, the underlying process for making the dish, or the resulting dish itself, which are all facts. It will only protect the expression of those facts.

I'd like to reserve a table for two for Tuesday night, the 22nd at 8:00 please.” And then spell the name if they ask you to. If you know the restaurant fairly well and you'd like a certain section or area, just say so. You might like a quiet table, or a booth, or a window.