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Our Wage Models are Broken

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The Tip Pooling Model After the FLSA updated its guidance in 2018, it became legal to share tips across hourly employees, as long as they’re all paid the state’s full minimum wage. This isn’t an easy conversation to have. Rethinking Wages: Where to Start? Rethinking Wages: Where to Start? That’s where RAISE comes in. But they are important.

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10 Top Restaurant Technologies To Evolve Your Business

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After that, the most popular back-office technologies were accounting software (52%, up from 31% in 2018) and payroll software (50%, up from 28% in 2018), according to a study from Toast. Your POS system reduces ordering errors, increases front-of-house and back-of-house efficiency, and helps you control inventory.

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Surprising Ways that Tech Can Help Evolve Your Restaurant

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After that, the most popular back-office technologies were accounting software (52%, up from 31% in 2018) and payroll software (50%, up from 28% in 2018), according to a study from Toast. The first technologies that restaurants often invest in are the cloud-based point of sale (POS) systems and payroll processing.

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MRM EXCLUSIVE: Can Technology Help Solve the Restaurant Labor Shortage?

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Restaurants that once employed full front of house operations, quickly turned into crews of kitchen and expeditor staff only, employing sometimes 25-50 percent of their original staff. How do we entice them back into the workforce?" Roles shifted too. "Where are all the people? But this is slowly starting to change.

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‘Bring the Dining Room Experience to the Windows’

Modern Restaurant Management

Joining Mood in 2018, he currently oversees the QSR team, focused on North America Account Management efforts. The personalization of drive-thrus began internally across many brands a few years back. How is QSR ownership changing? Every minute! We continue to see mass transfer of ownerships across many big brands. Great question.

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Will Tipping at Restaurants Make Sense in a COVID-19 World?

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Excluding the back-of-house workers is one of the problems with tipping. These workers usually don’t get to enjoy the tips and it creates tension between back and front-of-house workers instead of promoting teamwork. Tipping at restaurants has always been a contreversial issue. an hour, the federal minimum wage.

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‘We Need to Feed People — Thousands of People’

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Brendan Smith/Chef Hui Weeks after the Maui fires, Hawaiʻi chefs continue to cook for displaced people while trying to keep their own restaurants afloat On the morning of August 8, chef Isaac Bancaco rode his bike to Pacific’o on the Beach, the upscale Pacific Rim restaurant he helmed on Front Street, on Lahaina’s historic waterfront.