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Mastering Worker Classification: Seven Essential Tips for Restaurant Owners

Modern Restaurant Management

Understanding whether your staff are employees or independent contractors isn’t just about following the rules—it’s key to maintaining a fair, compliant and smoothly running establishment. Employees classified as exempt from overtime must meet specific criteria, such as executive or administrative duties.

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AI in the Restaurant Industry: Unlocking Opportunities to Reduce Costs and Increase Efficiency

Modern Restaurant Management

AI technology can help restaurants protect themselves and their customers from financial losses stemming from card-related fraud. The technology can rapidly surface data and identify and analyze patterns related to customer habits and preferences, track sales trends, forecast demand for ingredients, and identify operational bottlenecks.

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[Guide] How to Implement Digital Tip Payouts at your Restaurant

7 Shifts

Make sure to consider these key factors from both the administrative and employee perspective: Pricing: Consider whether the platform charges a flat fee (monthly or annual), a percentage of tips, or a combination of both. Do you plan on sending employee tips at the end of every day, other day, or twice a week?

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Four Major Benefits of Tech Tools to Elevate Safety and Quality

Modern Restaurant Management

Customers and employees are demanding more transparency, expecting to see ongoing, proactive efforts to keep everyone safe. Four significant benefits to using digital tools include their ability to: increase safety, quality, accuracy, productivity, and efficiency, minimize risks, train and empower your employees, and manage COVID protocols.

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Enhancing Staff Retention with Restaurant Labor Management and Scheduling Technology

Squirrel Systems

High turnover rates not only disrupt operations but also incur significant costs related to hiring and training new employees. This balance is crucial not only for maintaining high service standards but also for employee satisfaction.

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What Trends Are You Seeing and What Can We Expect to See More of in 2022?

Modern Restaurant Management

Our restaurant of the future is designed to benefit guests, employees and franchisees, with a new external design and a reimagined kitchen that will make it easier for us to serve hot, delicious food quickly for frictionless guest experiences, and we expect to see a lot more of that next year. Clinton Anderson, CEO, Fourth Enterprises.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Three

Modern Restaurant Management

Prioritising employee well-being, mental health, and job satisfaction is also essential in curbing turnover and cultivating a content and dedicated workforce. Who brands trust, how programs are architected, procedures and great communication matters…A LOT. Nothing is fraud proof.

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