7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

7 Core Restaurant Management Responsibilities Staffing : Hire, fire, train, and manage employees. Inventory management: Monitor and maintain food and beverage stock levels. Innovating: Identify issues in your restaurant—whether inventory or systems-related— and be willing to create solutions and processes to improve efficiency.

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Apicbase

APRIL 5, 2024

Restaurants use software and smart hardware to automate everyday tasks and management duties, such as purchasing ingredients, managing inventory, making production lists, dealing with allergens, and calculating costs. Back of house (BOH) operations are complex and have many moving parts.

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Restaurant365

JUNE 22, 2021

Training your store-level managers and your kitchen staff about food waste reduction is critical to improving overall Cost of Goods Sold (CoGS). Preventing food waste from happening in the first place is the best thing you can do to save on your food cost. Train your store-level managers. First, focus on transparency.

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Apicbase

APRIL 11, 2024

The success of a food service business depends on how well its restaurant managers manage purchasing and inventory and how good the chefs are at creating profitable recipes. The restaurant back office, or back of house (BOH), is the non-customer-facing side of the restaurant business.

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Apicbase

APRIL 18, 2024

A restaurant’s raw data includes sales numbers, inventory data, ingredient pricing, recipe quantities and units, and financial figures. For example, a regular report on your inventory variance tells you the difference between your actual and expected inventory. Restaurant reports turn raw data into useful information.

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Apicbase

MAY 8, 2024

Finally, we will explore the best alternatives to MarketMan, helping you decide which restaurant inventory management platform aligns best with your needs. Inventory management: MarketMan tracks inventory and reports on stock counts and total value. It helps you track waste and theft to better control running costs.

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Transact

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Food waste, countless hours spent taking inventory, complicated employee onboarding processes—and even worse, sick customers due to food safety issues—they’re nightmares for any dedicated restaurant manager. . Read on to learn three ways upgrading your BOH technology can benefit your foodservice operation. .

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Sling

MAY 9, 2023

This is especially important when training new employees. 4) Minimize food waste Minimizing waste is essential because food costs are one of the largest expenses that most restaurants have to contend with. Doing so involves more than just the food your diners leave behind.

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Cheetah

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Restaurant brands that are looking to tap into the eco- and social-trends in food-waste reduction , sustainable packaging and fair wages should inquire with ghost kitchens as to how they address these issues. Make sure the location can provide proof of live utility hookups, waste removal, recycling, and proper permitting.

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Lavu

MARCH 13, 2020

Streamline BOH and FOH Communications. Meanwhile, the BOH is tasked with responding to orders. If the FOH and BOH are working hand in hand, why should their communications be limited? Train Employees to Work Smarter, Not Harder. Flesh out a complete training guide and implement the same training for every new-hire.

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Apicbase

MARCH 28, 2024

The F&B director works with the order forms, the COO analyses the profit and loss statements, the inventory manager checks the stock counts, the executive chef works in the recipes database and so on. All come with their own data sets and metrics – food cost, inventory variance, sales numbers, the list goes on.

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Apicbase

JANUARY 13, 2023

With smart food ordering — meaning leveraging tech for inventory management and vendor selection — operators can cut down on food waste by 80%. The benefit is even bigger for inventory management — 91% say that automation around inventory/item availability would help them streamline processes and fill business gaps.

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Restaurant365

APRIL 30, 2021

Consistent, accurate recipe costing relies on a few key elements: standardized recipes, accurate restaurant inventory management , and up-to-date vendor prices. Automating accurate pricing through a full integration with your vendor invoicing ensures your team doesn’t waste time updating prices whenever there is a price change.

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Apicbase

JUNE 16, 2023

By regularly tracking his inventory and procurement metrics, Fabio was able to reduce his kitchens’ food costs by 18%. Get a 360-view of your sales & inventory data Adopt restaurant analytics software. Inventory Turnover Ratio This restaurant inventory metric measures how often your business depletes its total inventory.

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Apicbase

MARCH 3, 2023

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. This end-to-end solution uses data from your POS to provide insights into sales, food costs, menu engineering and inventory management.

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The Restaurant Group

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Portion control is a responsibility of both FOH and BOH. That is waste; known and unknown. A good start is to track returned food, waste from spoilage, comped or replaced food and inventory turns. FOH employees need to charge the correct price for changes in menu items, they also need to verify orders are correct.

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The Restaurant Times

MARCH 6, 2023

Train Employees: The skill of upselling to customers distinguishes a good server from a great one. The best way to achieve this is by equipping the front and back-of-house (BOH) staff with efficient tools such as a kitchen display system (KDS) and a point of sale (POS) system. trillion in revenue due to food waste by 2030.

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Apicbase

APRIL 20, 2022

On top of the manual, you’ll also need to dedicate time to training new franchisees for at least several weeks. Recipes should be simple to execute and dishes easy to assemble using your operations manual and training courses. Also, monitor no-so-obvious KPIs such as food cost variance , inventory turnover and food waste.

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Apicbase

JULY 1, 2022

You can also save significantly on training and labour costs by moving your food prep away from your restaurant kitchens. Instead, you only need to hire and train skilled chefs for your central production kitchen. You can easily keep track of your purchases and inventory because everything is centralised. Faster scaling.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2019

They touched on topics such as delivery, ghost (dark) kitchens, automation, plant-based menu items, food waste, sustainability, staffing and retention and more. Menus need to diversify to keep patrons coming back for more, but more personalized options mean more training for staff. Automation will cause workforce to adjust focus.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Table stakes today requires a POS system that fully integrates and automates: Inventory management – recipe management and COGS insights. There are kitchen robots you can easily “train” by having them exactly replicate your arm movements and perform highly complicated yet repetitive cooking and preparation tasks.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2020

For example, to level-up the fan experience you can combine first-party transaction data with player stats, weather conditions, and inventory to better predict game-day sales. Operators will need to be creative in finding ways to counter the increased restaurant costs and the waste being produced.

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