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The Future of Operational Excellence: A Radical Reimagining of Continuous Improvement and Feedback

Modern Restaurant Management

Brands of all sizes must conduct regular safety and quality audits to ensure all locations are consistently compliant. In these traditionally in-person audits, inspectors often find issues that need to be corrected, and would tell the brand location’s operator what was wrong. The operator would then go correct the problems.

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8 Reasons Why Restaurant Workers Quit (And How to Retain Them)

7 Shifts

According to Jim Taylor, a restaurant coach at BenchmarkSixty , restaurants can afford to pay employees more by looking for efficiencies in their productivity. Whether they're in school, have kids, or need time for auditions, restaurant workers can live the lifestyle they want outside the traditional 9-to-5. Schedules aren't flexible.

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How I Got My Job: Launching Vertical Farming Innovations After a Career in Packaged Snack Foods

EATER

Photo by David Cortes Stephanie Jack always knew she wanted to work in food, and her journey took her from Frito-Lay to the “smart produce” business Stephanie Jack’s parents met while working at Heinz — specifically, when her mother was auditing her father’s department. I learn from them every day.

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Little Known Tax Benefits of Franchising Your Business

MBB Hospitality

You Can Deduct Any Business Travel. Any travel you do for work is also tax-deductible. Whether you are traveling long distance on a plane or making a short local trip, it will count for a deduction, even a short business errand. In addition, there are two ways you can figure out the deduction for business travel in your car.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-May 2021 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

percent in 2020 as brands shifted to more frequent, virtual interactions focused on ensuring franchisees were weathering the storm rather than the traditional compliance audit. Unscored audits increased by 29 percent in 2020, which had been a growing trend even in pre-pandemic times. Order & Delivery Report. Paytronix Systems, Inc.

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Restaurant Modernization — It’s More than Customer-Facing Tech

Modern Restaurant Management

Coach Employees to Be an Extension of Your CQO. That’s why it’s important to coach employees (not just have them memorize rules) to help them understand why they’re being asked to follow certain rules. Additionally, using virtual audits through your video meeting app of choice can save auditor travel costs.

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Here Are the 2024 James Beard Awards Restaurant and Chef Semifinalists

EATER

This is the third awards season to reflect changes made in the wake of an extensive 2021 audit to address the longstanding biases baked into the awards process. The stated goal in the 2021 audit was also to have at least 50 percent of committee members and judges be people of color by the 2023 awards.

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