7 Shifts

JANUARY 10, 2024

Twenty minutes east of the White House, in D.C.’s Coming out of the pandemic, many restaurants switched to charging a service fee to compensate staff instead of relying on the tip credit. Coming out of the pandemic, many restaurants switched to charging a service fee to compensate staff instead of relying on the tip credit. (If

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 10, 2024

Twenty minutes east of the White House, in D.C.’s Coming out of the pandemic, many restaurants switched to charging a service fee to compensate staff instead of relying on the tip credit. Coming out of the pandemic, many restaurants switched to charging a service fee to compensate staff instead of relying on the tip credit. (If

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FOH Front of House Customer Service Back of House 195

7 Shifts

AUGUST 5, 2021

After tracking sales, calculating inventory, and just trying to keep your head above water, restaurant scheduling can take up a chunk out of your week. Problems often arise in your schedule, from your head chef calling out sick to the unexpected influx of customers on a Tuesday afternoon. Cross-Train Your Employees.

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Front of House Restaurant Law Employee Relations Point of Sale 370

7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

What documentation to give out and collect during onboarding. Give them an overview of what they will learn and do during onboarding, and how long the process will take. Admin: Filling out employment paperwork and receiving access to tools like the employee timekeeping portal, employee email, POS, and security system.

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FOH BOH Food Safety Customer Service 307

7 Shifts

AUGUST 7, 2020

Restaurant staff members who are engaged in their work are better able to create memorable experiences for guests — even if they don’t interact with them directly. Team members who aren’t engaged create subpar experiences for guests and are more likely to quit. Who you hire to execute your vision can make or break your business.

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2020 Kitchen Safety FOH BOH 312

7 Shifts

MAY 31, 2021

With this efficiency, staff knows exactly what to do and when to do it, and guests enjoy a delightful experience with your brand. Inventory was ordered based on par levels, which are set based on sales forecasts, which are in turn determined by how many guests you'll serve and what they'll order. Table of Contents. What does it mean?

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Operations Inventory Hiring Customer Service 363

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 10, 2021

In the past, kitchens worked by a paper ticket system, which was handwritten by the waitstaff and passed to the back-of-house (BOH) staff. A KDS is a digital screen that relays information to your BOH, minimizing pain points by digitizing tickets. Order Views – This is how your BOH staff actually sees the information.

Management 184

Management Management BOH Front of House 184

7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

There's a lot of confusion surrounding the process, structure, and laws regarding restaurant tip outs. For that to happen, it's necessary to understand the rules of tipping out, choose a structure that works for your staff, and communicate that structure to employees clearly. What is a Tip Out? Tip Out Methods.

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Tip Distribution FOH Front of House Restaurant Law 195

7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

There are 101 ways to dole out restaurant tips - from percentages to points to whether kitchen staff gets a share. But we kept the back-of-house revenue share program for our kitchen teams, where regardless of what position you work in the kitchen, you get a certain percentage of revenue earned. Table of Contents. 5 Tips on Tipping.

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BOH Restaurant Law Back of House Front of House 195

7 Shifts

JANUARY 7, 2020

An engaged staff is crucial for smooth operations, satisfied customers, a strong workplace culture, and high profits. They believe in what they do and therefore bring in higher profits by treating customers better and upselling. Fortunately, we have extensive experience with restaurant employee engagement.

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Employee Relations FOH BOH Certification 349

Apicbase

APRIL 5, 2024

The 2024 Square Future of Restaurants report surveyed thousands of restaurant owners and customers across the United States, Canada, and the UK. Restaurant automation enhances every part of restaurant operations, from taking orders online and in the restaurant to recipe and production planning, staff management, and payroll processing.

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Back of House Front of House BOH Point of Sale 52

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 29, 2020

As more restaurants in the United States receive the go-ahead to open their doors for indoor dining, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine reached out to industry experts on ways to calm employee anxiety. You will take guest temperatures, if, and when, allowed. Most of the same applies to the health of BOH as well.

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FOH Kitchen Safety BOH Food Safety 212

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

With a critically shrunken talent pool, restaurants are racing to fill positions in every part of the business — front of house, back of house, and corporate teams. Across the United States, businesses are suffering from unprecedented staffing shortages in the aftermath of COVID. Enter digital tableside ordering.

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Technology Loyalty Program Fast Casual Email Marketing 224

The Restaurant Times

MARCH 13, 2023

The back-of-house (BOH) at a restaurant is the behind-the-scenes area of the restaurant — it works like an engine and keeps the restaurant going. While it is not visible to the customers, the restaurant’s services get hampered without back-of-house. Why is Back of House Important?

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Cheetah

JUNE 14, 2021

But it’s going to take more than a few. There is a way out of this labor crisis, and it’s going to take more than simply “adapting” to a temporary reality. It takes a lot of guts to fight for change. The labor shortage has brought with it a sense of reckoning. Table of Contents. How Did Things Get This Bad? million jobs.

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BOH Back of House Front of House Restaurant Law 148

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 8, 2020

Common sanitation precautions being taken include lowered occupancy limits, mask requirements, and in-house social distancing. Customer well-being. Importantly, make your updated policies visible externally to help assuage concerns from customers who may still be hesitant to re-integrate into the public arena. Entry/Exit.

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FOH BOH Front of House Employee Relations 177

Apicbase

APRIL 11, 2024

Having the best POS system and a constant flow of customers might seem like a sure path to success, but without proper back-of-house management, your restaurants have little chance of making real money. The restaurant back office, or back of house (BOH), is the non-customer-facing side of the restaurant business.

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Operations Back of House Allergens Front of House 52

Cheetah

DECEMBER 20, 2021

But even in a post-pandemic world, they are a wonderful way for restaurants to take advantage of the delivery boom , and perfect for new virtual or ghost restaurant entrepreneurs who are interested in a delivery-only enterprise. Just like in a restaurant, different cuisines may come out of the same kitchen. Reef Global.

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Front of House Food Supply Back of House Fine Dining 148

Lavu

JUNE 4, 2019

As a restaurateur, you want to provide your customers with the best dining experience you can. A kitchen display screen shows the pending orders that are being prepared and streamlines communication between the front-of-the-house (FOH) and back-of-the-house (BOH) sections of a restaurant. Let’s get started!

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BOH FOH Front of House Back of House 109

Restaurant365

JUNE 9, 2021

You can use data to improve restaurant operations, both in your front of house (FOH) and back of house (BOH). Optimizing your BOH and FOH metrics boosts the efficiency of your labor and food spending. Tracking BOH and FOH data can help you root out issues and discover potential solutions.

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FOH BOH Front of House Back of House 78

7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

My managers also used code names based on menu items to “rate” female customers. Amanda Cohen, chef and owner of New York City's Dirt Candy, is vocal about culinary lists and awards that leave out female chefs. Good to know that the grand old tradition of writing us out of the history of food is alive & well in 2020.

Leadership 195

Leadership FOH BOH Website Management 195

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 25, 2021

In the past, kitchens worked by a paper ticket system, which was handwritten by the waitstaff and passed to the back-of-house (BOH) staff. A KDS is a digital screen that relays information to your BOH, minimizing pain points by digitizing tickets. Order Views – This is how your BOH staff actually sees the information.

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Management Management BOH Front of House 88

The Restaurant Times

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Running a restaurant comes with long and short-term problems that will exhaust you if you don’t have any assistance or prior experience. Practices that were common in the restaurant business, only a few years ago are gradually being phased out in favor of more efficient and quicker methods of operating.

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Management Management Cash Management Front of House 98

Cheetah

JULY 1, 2021

The pandemic has exacerbated the restaurant labor crisis and there is only one way out – offering staff higher wages and improving benefits. In our last article we explored adding auto-gratuity to the bill and sharing tips with BOH staff. Is it fair towards customers? Table of Contents. Download the app to start saving !

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Fine Dining Customer Experience Front of House Customer Service 148

Cheetah

JULY 1, 2021

The pandemic has exacerbated the restaurant labor crisis and there is only one way out – offering staff higher wages and improving benefits. In our last article we explored adding auto-gratuity to the bill and sharing tips with BOH staff. Is it fair towards customers? Table of Contents. Download the app to start saving !

Fine Dining 148

Fine Dining Customer Experience Front of House Customer Service 148

Lavu

MARCH 13, 2020

This permits your restaurant—both front and back of the house—to work at the fast pace of consumer spending. If customers are waiting in line for a table, you can take their drink orders as they wait, and even transfer their tab to their table once seated. Checks can be cashed out or rung up right there at the table.

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FOH Mobile Ordering BOH Front of House 78

Apicbase

MARCH 28, 2024

Here are the key considerations to look out for when making your decision. That means it needs to be able to integrate with other tech solutions, it needs to be able to take in data, make sense of it, and share it with the whole system, and it needs to give you enough flexibility to make changes for constant improvement.

Management 52

Management Management Point of Sale Kitchen Safety 52

7 Shifts

OCTOBER 2, 2019

But with this new opportunity comes a new set of challenges, not the least of which is figuring out how to manage restaurant staff. There are certainly skills that will help you keep your staff engaged and your restaurant running smoothly, but some of what you need to know can only come from experience.

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Management Management Communication Back of House 285

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Guests will expect to know every aspect of sourcing and meal preparation, which will disrupt traditional back-of-house systems with technology that connects the farm to the food. We’re seeing massive disruption to front-of-house systems, too, delivering personalized guest experiences from order to payment to final delivery.

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Mobile Ordering Front of House Fast Casual Customer Service 212

Black Box Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Brands that stand out are able to use big data to spot trends, measure performance and create strategies that will drive profits. For our clients, we offer granular data on financials, consumers, customers and workforce, as well as competitive intelligence that they use to benchmark against the competition. Limited-service restaurants.

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Fast Casual BOH Fine Dining FOH 89

Apicbase

MAY 8, 2024

We also analyse customer feedback from platforms like G2 and Capterra to highlight the pros and cons users have encountered. Expense tracking: MarketMan Snap is an app that lets you take photos of receipts and invoices and upload them to the system. It runs in the cloud, so these functions are available wherever you are on any device.

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Inventory Food Supply Kitchen Safety Back of House 52

EATER

JUNE 26, 2020

While the city of Miami has allowed restaurants to operate their dining rooms at half capacity since May 27, this particular spot is remaining closed for dine-in service until its owners can offer their customers a more “on-brand” dining experience — meaning fun and easygoing — rather than a modified, cautious night out.

Front of House 114

Front of House Back of House Guest Recovery Loyalty Program 114

Apicbase

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Problems like knowing the what but not the why behind it; non-existent or limited back-of-house visibility; and essential information buried under a mountain of trivia. Luckily, restaurant data analytics solutions like Apicbase take these problems off your plate. Here’s what we’ll cover: What is restaurant reporting?

POS 52

POS Operations Back of House FOH 52

Restaurant365

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Looking at the cost of labor as a percentage of sales shows how your employee labor hours are matching with customer demand (sales). Looking at the cost of labor as a percentage of sales shows how your employee labor hours are matching with customer demand (sales). per hour, with Seattle close behind at $16.69.

Restaurant Law 78

Restaurant Law Point of Sale BOH Customer Service 78

Touch Bistro

AUGUST 23, 2021

To offer a truly immersive dining experience, let your guests indulge more than just their taste buds the next time they visit your restaurant. Whip up a feast for the eyes with restaurant interior design that wows your customers, while building brand recognition and loyalty. It’s time to get creative! The added benefit?

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Design 2021 Front of House Sourcing 129

Apicbase

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

So, we invite you to not just take these numbers at face value but to really dig into the details for a fuller picture. 71% of restaurant customers prefer to order food delivery directly from the restaurant rather than using third-party apps. At first glance, some stats might seem to contradict each other. Let’s dig in.

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2024 Operations 2023 Loyalty Program 52

Apicbase

MARCH 3, 2023

These back-of-house software systems have become indispensable for modern restaurants because they enhance profitability and simplify work for restaurant managers and kitchen staff. Some technologies integrate with the restaurant’s POS, allowing data to be easily shared between front-of-house (FoH) and back-of-house (BoH) systems.

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Point of Sale POS Management Management 52