FreshCheq

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

According to the National Restaurant Association, the average restaurant failure rate sits at right around 30%. It's very difficult to get a restaurant off the ground and keep it afloat for more than a few years, much less a few decades.

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Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

As a result, the New York State Common Retirement Fund has withdrawn a shareholder proposal seeking more information about the fast-casual restaurant chain's diversity, equity and inclusion practices. But now Brinker International is a target.

Fast Casual 97

Fast Casual Audits Casual Information 97

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 6, 2022

For many brands, an annual audit was the norm, while employees may have focused on not "getting in trouble" or "getting a good score" rather than the creation of culture. As it turns out, only conducting traditional, in-person audits was not an ideal approach. Finally, we have some wonderful changes to celebrate.

Kitchen Safety 189

Kitchen Safety Audits Dine-in Operations 189

7 Shifts

MAY 15, 2023

Updating your payroll records in case of an audit. In conjunction with charge tips on checks, weekly payroll provides audit transparency regarding direct and indirectly tipped employees. He says: “In one instance, a fellow restaurateur friend faced a labor audit due to poor record-keeping.He

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2023 Restaurant Law Tip Distribution Audits 195

7 Shifts

JUNE 29, 2022

Location Audits. A location audit offers franchisors the chance to go in-depth on a specific location to see where it's thriving or struggling when it comes to compliance. To be considerate, it's recommended to give franchisees a brief heads up about the audit before formally conducting it.

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Franchise Franchising Restaurant Law Food Safety 370

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

To better manage and keep a handle on contract management, operators can conduct routine invoice audits, automate their contract management, monitor price and market trends, and review their MDA’s. Here’s a deeper look at each: Constant Auditing of Invoices.

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Audits Food Supply Pricing Supplies 197

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 27, 2022

As a result, brands had to be flexible, adding remote audits and self-inspections instead of solely in-person audits. Now, it’s common to rely on this combination approach for more frequent audits, leading to continuous improvement. This pivot may have been the best thing to come out of the pandemic!

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Food Safety Food Food Supply Food Order 206

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 7, 2020

That approach begins with the judicious application of data from brand compliance audits. Restaurants rely on surveys and brand audits to provide valuable measurements, allowing management to assess standards across their locations and make adjustments when issues crop up. Why Franchises Are Digitizing Brand Audits.

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Customer Experience Audits Franchise Franchising 117

FreshCheq

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Food hygiene and safety are incredibly important, but it's also hard to keep track of everything.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 27, 2022

Audit differently. Now, food businesses – including ghost kitchens – are creating a culture of collaboration and development by changing their audit processes. Train employees on food safety protocols, as well as additional COVID cleaning and safety practices. COVID changed that. Utilize digital tools.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Restaurants should routinely conduct supplier audits to be certain that all food safety and QA practices are being followed before the food even arrives at your restaurant. Additionally, audits and confirmation of safety certifications should be standard operating procedure before working with new vendors.

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Food Safety Kitchen Safety Food Supply Loyalty Program 184

7 Shifts

MAY 18, 2023

Then, out of the blue, these labor audit folks showed up, and man, did they find a heap of issues. And the audit was a pain in the neck—he had to dig out all sorts of paperwork and answer a million questions, which ate into the time he should have been spending running his place.

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Restaurant Law Insurance Audits Cash Management 195

7 Shifts

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Step 1: Audit Your Current Location(s) Before you start planning for your future, take a look at your past and your present. Still, you should conduct a thorough audit of your current restaurant(s) before expanding your business further. Read on for our actionable, step-by-step process on how to expand your franchise.

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Franchise Franchising Audits Point of Sale 368

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Ironically, now that restaurants must implement stringent new safety protocols and ensure compliance, it’s become difficult to secure third-party audits due to COVID-related travel restrictions and limits to interpersonal interactions. Invest in Software Solutions.

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Food Safety Food Supply Management Management 186

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Elevate inspections and audits. Instead, rely on integrated tech tools for easier, faster, and more accurate inspections and audits. Audit suppliers to ensure they’re compliant before you work with them (and throughout your collaboration). Consumers want a clean, safe place to eat (and charge their cars).

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Food Safety Food Order Food Supply Consumer Goods 176

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 29, 2021

Even before the pandemic, customers at my software company, RizePoint, were trending toward doing more self-assessments at each location to track the results of big yearly audits and to get better views into how things are right now instead of a single point-in-time view. Add Self-Assessments at Locations.

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Food Safety Kitchen Safety Audits Food Order 143

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Increasingly, restaurants are using tech tools to conduct regular self-assessments, which supplement in-person and remote audits. Self-audits can (and should) be implemented more frequently than third-party audits as part of your restaurant’s continuous quality initiative.

Food Safety 183

Food Safety Dine-in Audits Employee Relations 183

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Restaurant operators who have yet to integrate technology into different aspects of their operations should conduct an audit. Through operational auditing, it’s easier to find the bottlenecks in areas such as staff management, kitchen operations, dining room procedures, reservation processing, food safety, and restaurant cleanliness.

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Operations Food Safety Kitchen Safety Technology 183

EATER

JUNE 2, 2023

The TL;DR is that there’s drama because the Foundation created a process to “vet” nominees accused of bad behavior, in place since 2022 following a massive audit, but the process is (unsurprisingly) flawed and plenty of people are pissed about it. The Foundation then proactively canceled the 2021 awards, instead dedicating itself to an audit.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 12, 2021

Auditing Your Outdoor Dining Space Before Permit Request. Before applying for a permit or renewal, it’s in your best interest to audit the parking lot for any new safety hazards. After cold winter weather, restaurants may need to refurbish outdoor dining spaces before reapplying for permits.

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Outdoor Fine Dining Dine-in Food Safety 121

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 30, 2020

To make sure consumer health and safety is prioritized, operators should be auditing lots for quick repairs, adjusting signage to control traffic, as well as taking care of outside factors like city permits and permissions. Auditing Lots for Damage and Quickly Conducting Repairs.

Outdoor 188

Outdoor Dine-in Audits Seating 188

7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Most restaurants will file this information away in the back office or in a cloud-based HR platform, but it's critical you audit who has access to this information and for what purposes. Audit your existing POS and check to see what PCI compliance standards they have. Guest Data. Upserve has a good primer on this.

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POS Operations Audits FOH 370

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 29, 2021

Number Three : Audit your time keeping. Number Four : Audit sales every half-hour in your POS system. They’re not working, and they are milking the time clock. If an employee comes in early, stays longer, makes their side work take much longer, they’re making more money, and you’re losing money.

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POS Audits Sports Take-out 208

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 2, 2021

Self-Audit Your Lot and Define a Baseline for Repairs. Knowing there could be more damage than usual to restaurant parking lots after a couple of mild winters, it’s worth it for restaurant operators to take time to quickly audit their lot for damage before pulling in a contractor to help with repairs.

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Audits 2021 Dine-in Operations 120

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Some of these marketplace collection laws were hastily enacted and state revenue agencies may still be issuing guidance, determining audit enforcement practices, and resolving practical implementation issues as they arise. In general, states may only audit a restaurant for the sales on which it remits tax. Exclusions.

Restaurant Law 188

Restaurant Law Presentation Delivery Food 188

FreshCheq

JANUARY 9, 2020

From there, features range from audits, checklists, scheduling, label printing and more. Audits for store inspections, EcoSure and Steritech self-audits. Discounts are often made for large group deals. Functionality varies on every app. It is common to include the ability to do your food safety checks. Daily process checklists.

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Pricing Food Safety Audits Food 78

FreshCheq

JANUARY 9, 2020

From there, features range from audits, checklists, scheduling, label printing and more. Audits for store inspections, EcoSure and Steritech self-audits. Discounts are often made for large group deals. Functionality varies on every app. It is common to include the ability to do your food safety checks. Daily process checklists.

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Pricing Food Safety Audits Food 78

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Meanwhile, there’s also a more direct and tangible business benefit to all this hygiene awareness: People spend more money with a restaurant when they believe it values cleanliness and restaurants with higher cleanliness also see greater operational efficiency and results in audits and scores.

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Food Supply Food Consumer Goods Dine-in 161

Perfect Daily Grind

AUGUST 7, 2022

Currently, the government is conducting an audit to assess several major co-operatives in the country, to see if anything can be done to improve performance. The objective of the audit is to understand why there are problems with co-op models and the potential solutions.

Operations 174

Operations Agriculture Audits Cash Management 174

Thrive POS

MAY 13, 2021

He became an expert the hard way - suffering through a grueling Department of Labor audit of 2 years worth of delivery payments to drivers for his multi-unit restaurant franchise. Brian Schaaf knows a lot about restaurant delivery driver reimbursements.

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Delivery Franchise Franchising Audits 112

7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Do an audit on your menu, and check individual item sales. Streamline your menu. If you don't want to ask guests to pay a small amount more, you can maintain menu prices and make changes behind the scenes to save on food costs. This can help reduce your cost of goods sold.

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Menu Food Order Tip Distribution 2019 370

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 9, 2021

The NSF has a standards team that facilitates the development of public health standards, and a service team that test, audit, and certify products and services – which brings us to NSF Certification.

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Certification Food Safety Food Audits 163

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 25, 2020

As of March 18, 2020, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has suspended onsite audit requirements associated with the FSMA due to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. FSMA audits are on hold for now, but when the crowds return so will the audits. Use this time to prepare your staff for audits. Know the Drill.

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Food Safety Food Audits Allergens 109

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Technology that helps standardize and audit a high-quality experience across the brand is helpful to ensure every visit is a good one. With more competition for fewer dollars, restaurants must look for ways to offer a better experience and more loyalty options than their competitors. Similarly, loyalty systems are likely to bring in business.

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2023 Technology Back of House Food Order 210

Embrace the Suck

DECEMBER 25, 2019

What you want to ask for is margin instead of markup and you want it to be auditable. Get it in writing, and every six months ask for an audit to see if they are living up to the agreement. Foodservice distributors get a little nervous when you mention the word “audit” to them. ” Not so fast.

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Food Food Truck Restaurant Law Food Order 289

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 2, 2023

Now is the time to audit your payment processing ecosystem, wrestle that question to the ground, and consider the changes that can position your business to deliver a highly satisfying CX while eliminating unnecessary costs for the long term. What is your payments strategy?

Operations 134

Operations Loyalty Program Consumer Goods Mobile Ordering 134

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 14, 2021

Audit the waste stream and try to identify current trends and how much waste is actually being generated. Whether that’s finding the lowest price in the area, managing missed pickups, or auditing monthly charges, they relieve the operator of the time it takes to oversee the program.

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Waste Food Compost Recycling 189