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Essential FOH Restaurant KPIs That Increase Profitability, Part 1

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After all, it’s hard to improve a metric if you don’t know your starting point. You can use data to improve restaurant operations, both in your front of house (FOH) and back of house (BOH). Tracking key FOH metrics can help provide a path to healthy revenue levels. Focus on the customer experience.

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Critical BOH Restaurant KPIs That Optimize Labor Costs and CoGs, Part 2

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Your restaurant is constantly generating data, whether from your sales revenue, food costs, or labor hours. Leveraging your front of house (FOH) and back of house (BOH) data allows you to gain more insight into your operations. Get the data you need to grow your profitability by reviewing critical FOH and BOH restaurant KPIs.

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How to Drastically Cut Expenses in Your Restaurant (and Stay Profitable During COVID-19)

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Comparing 7shifts’ internal data of 10,000+ restaurants, restaurants are seeing an average weekly decrease in sales of 50% across the board in North America. Evaluate your restaurant scheduling practices to see if you are consistently over-budgeting on labor needs based on your sales.

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Restaurant Labor Cost Control: 11 Reports to Optimize Labor

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Calculating your restaurant labor cost and sales for a specific period indicates how your employee labor hours are matching with customer demand. Use the following restaurant labor cost formula to determine your labor cost percentage: Total Labor Cost ÷Total Sales = Labor cost as a percentage of total sales.

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How to Handle Temporary Restaurant Closure during COVID-19

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Do you have delivery drivers who you could hire, or would your FOH staff take on this role for extra pay? Consider things like merchandise sales, inventory sales, or private cooking lessons. Consider things like merchandise sales, inventory sales, or private cooking lessons.

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Restaurant Labor Costs Every Store Manager Should Track

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Because sales and labor needs can change by the hour, day, week, and month, it can be difficult to control your labor budget over time. Your total labor cost is a dollar figure that may shift over time as sales fluctuate (we’ll discuss calculating this labor cost as a percentage below). Salaried Employees.

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Meeting Off-Premise Demand While Rebuilding In-Restaurant Sales to Boost Profitability

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But while off-premise demand has grown, in-person sales are coming back as more regions open up again. For restaurant owners and operators, how do you balance between maintaining off-premise business and rebuilding in-restaurant sales—at the same time? However, in the era of social distancing, these burgeoning trends took off.