Culinary Cues

JULY 31, 2023

A few years back, I posted an article about the UNWRITTEN RULES of the kitchen. I felt it was time to refresh, modify, and re-emphasize the rules and make them relatable to the current climate we all work in. Maybe, they are even worthy of a place in your employee manual or at least as a talking point during new employee orientation.

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Social Hospitality: Restaurants

MAY 6, 2020

Four Seasons New York: Housing Healthcare Pros. ” MGM Resorts also pledged $1 million to an employee emergency grant fund and donated the equivalent of 400,000 meals across the United States. Amidst the current COVID-19 pandemic, there is a lot of negativity online and in the news. Hotel Trundle Shares Stories of Happiness.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 31, 2024

Managing a restaurant is a delicate routine—if we can even call it a routine. A better description might be a balancing act that presents new and unique challenges every day. Managers are responsible for nearly every aspect of the restaurant and have to cover a variety of duties. This part of the job is arguably the most multi-faceted.

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Restaurant365

JUNE 4, 2020

We have outlined answers to some frequently asked questions as it relates to the guidance currently in place: When does the 8 week forgiveness period begin? NOTE: As of June 3, 2020, both the House and Senate have passed the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act of 2020.

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7 Shifts

JULY 24, 2020

While you must follow the strict guidelines to ensure the safety of your staff and customers, that’s not to say you can’t take advantage of an empty restaurant to improve your knowledge of restaurant management, running a business, and creating a recipe for success when you eventually get back to business as usual. Published: 2009 ??

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

However, restaurant owners and leaders can take clear, actionable steps towards understanding and managing their labor cost percentage without taking a toll on employee productivity, customer satisfaction, or their bottom lines. Benefits (Health Care, Employee Discounts, etc.). What is Restaurant Labor Cost Percentage? Payroll Taxes.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 9, 2020

This edition of MRM News Bites features Yum! Brands and The Habit, Chase and DoorDash, Waitr, Local Foods, C3 Signature, Pudu Tech, Southern Glazer's, Voodoo Doughnut, The Friendship Café and Digital Signage Expo. Beefing Up with Habit Acquisition. Brands, Inc. has agreed to acquire The Habit Restaurants, Inc., Brands, Inc.

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Hot Schedules

MAY 21, 2020

Dan stated, “We have been in constant contact with all of our employees, checking in on them multiple times a week to see how their unemployment benefits are working out, if they have another job, and if they have the desire to come back. Reopening Lessons from Two Independent Restaurateurs. Stay in virtual touch.

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Restaurant365

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

From hiring and onboarding to running employee payments and paying taxes, payroll touches on many different parts of a restaurant business. This two-part blog series presents an overall guide to the essentials of payroll accounting for restaurant groups. Tracking labor and payroll data for restaurant employees.

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Restaurant365

AUGUST 21, 2020

For food service and hospitality in particular, an essential part of the guest experience is the interaction with employees. In addition, in the age of social media, your labor practices and HR policies are under closer scrutiny than ever by both your employees and the public. Design an employee onboarding process.

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Social Hospitality: Restaurants

MAY 6, 2020

Four Seasons New York: Housing Healthcare Pros The Four Seasons Hotel in Manhattan is providing free rooms to doctors, nurses and other medical personnel. ” MGM Resorts also pledged $1 million to an employee emergency grant fund and donated the equivalent of 400,000 meals across the United States. Thank you @FourSeasons.

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Hot Schedules

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Is Your Back Office Sinking Productivity? B etween payroll, inventory, reporting, and more, it’s easy for a manager to get trapped in the back office, sinking under paperwork. Between payroll, ordering, reporting, and a mess of other paperwork, it’s easy for back-office operations to bog down crucial front-office efficiency.

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Hot Schedules

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Employee Turnover is at an All-Time High: 5 Emerging Benefits Trends You Need to Know. The past year has seen employee turnover reach an all-time high , and you’ve likely experienced it at your own business. Employee turnover greatly hampers throughput and cuts into available revenues. b3lineicon|b3icon-24hours|? |24

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Hot Schedules

MAY 10, 2021

Employee referrals are actually the best source of seasonal hiring (and frankly, hiring in general). Seasonal Staff Playbook: Hiring, Training & Retaining Great Teams. E very sports team has a series of plays – running plays, passing plays, defensive plays and so on. Finding skilled talent isn’t easy. b3lineicon|b3icon-user-network|?|User

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Hot Schedules

JANUARY 12, 2022

Back (Office) to the Future: The 4 Trends IT Leaders Need to Know. I f reinvention is defined as the process through which something is changed to the point it becomes entirely new, then the restaurant back office is getting reinvented big time. A truly end-to-end workforce management solution houses everything under on set of logins.

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Restaurant365

JULY 24, 2020

The focus of this blog post is to help existing restaurants launch their own ghost kitchens. Shelter-in-place orders, dine-in restrictions and diners’ hesitation to eat out have combined to prompt restaurants to shift their focus to takeout and delivery. What is a ghost kitchen? How a ghost kitchen works. Size of U.S.

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Paper Chase Accountancy

MAY 30, 2025

This blog aims to demystify the financial intricacies of the hospitality industry by providing a practical, sample bookkeeping structure specifically designed for restaurants and bars. See how outsourced bookkeeping saves time and reduces error: Explore the tangible benefits of delegating your financial back office to expert professionals.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 31, 2024

Managing a restaurant is a delicate routine—if we can even call it a routine. A better description might be a balancing act that presents new and unique challenges every day. Managers are responsible for nearly every aspect of the restaurant and have to cover a variety of duties. This part of the job is arguably the most multi-faceted.

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Restaurant365

OCTOBER 15, 2021

With the help of actionable data and reporting, store managers can help control labor costs, without negatively impacting the customer experience or employee retention rates. Here are a few helpful labor cost terms, along with how they are related to your total labor cost. Hourly Employees. Salaried Employees.

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The Restaurant Group

MAY 3, 2020

These suggestions provide a basic summary of recommended practices that can be used to help mitigate exposure to COVID-19 by focusing on food safety, sanitizing, employee health monitoring, personal hygiene and social distancing. Follow these tips from the National Restaurant Association when it’s time to get back to business.

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Focus POS

DECEMBER 22, 2021

So how can the industry build itself back up after being thrown such challenges over the past few years? The best solutions will also have features that automate order entry so employees don’t have to do it manually. The restaurant industry has always been competitive, and it’s challenging to make profits and stay solvent.

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Hot Schedules

JUNE 22, 2020

While all of these locations have different deadlines, fines, and provisions, the laws generally seek to give employees advanced notice of their schedules, offer the right to rest in between shifts, and levy penalties to employers who do not comply. Employees 250+ employees 50+ employees in Chicago. COVID-19 Relief.

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Restaurant365

AUGUST 19, 2020

For food service and hospitality in particular, an essential part of the guest experience is the interaction with employees. In addition, in the age of social media, your labor practices and HR policies are under closer scrutiny than ever by both your employees and the public. Design an employee onboarding process.

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Hot Schedules

APRIL 28, 2021

The Biden Administration Is Granting Tax Credits to Small Businesses Which Allow Employees PTO to Get Vaccinated. As this plays out, the White House announced an up-to $511 per day, per employee vaccine tax credit available to small businesses that grant paid time off to employees getting and recovering from injection.

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Restaurant365

JANUARY 7, 2020

The restaurant industry knows that high turnover and unengaged employees can be costly. Operationally, unhappy employees can prevent a culture of accountability, call in late, or become no-shows, leaving you with an understaffed operation. Overview of How Employee Mobile Apps Have Improved Restaurant Management.

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Rocket Fuel

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The next phase of modern loss prevention also relates to delivery. Just to level set, 75% of employees have admitted to stealing from an employer according to the U.S. Yet, many seem to still be grappling with some fundamental questions on the subject: How do you define loss prevention? What are some sound loss prevention strategies?

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Hot Schedules

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Meet the Villains Part One: The Busywork Beast in the Back-Office Lair. They take the form of wasted time, effort and cash, and cause havoc and frustration for your employees and guests alike. Part One: The Busywork Beast in the Back-Office Lair. Hiding in every back office lair is a Busywork Beast. Related Posts.

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Sling

MAY 24, 2023

Every restaurant should have an employee handbook. It’s a way to define the working relationship between employer and employee. Should some problem arise, the employee can’t use, “They never told me that,” as a defense because it’s written down in the employee handbook.

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Bingage

JANUARY 15, 2020

Related Read: Different Types of Restaurant Establishments. b) Read restaurant topic related books, successful restroprenuer interviews. Owning a Restaurant is quite challenging but at the same time, it’s a rewarding role. Running a restaurant is not only about taking orders and serving food. effective Restaurant business planning.

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Restaurant365

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Between self-service, order management, home delivery options, and futuristic robotic servers, there’s no shortage of great ideas for boosting front-of-house productivity. Here are a few examples of how expanding back of the house technology can help deliver on patrons’ increasing expectations: Delivering dining insights.

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Restaurant365

JUNE 17, 2022

John Wang (no relation to Libby Wang) of Rocky Mountain Robotech said the software from his company turns a robotic server into a hostess, a runner, waitstaff and a host. I talked to Mark Calvillo, senior vice president, product, who introduced me to their Hire program, an easy-to-use applicant tracking system for potential employees.

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Hot Schedules

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Learn how outsourcing your HR can increase employee engagement while decreasing liabilities and fees. As a result, the impact on your employees’ experience and the guest experience is tangible. If they’re stuck in the back of house they can’t be out front, improving the guest experience. Any mistake is costly.

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Restaurant365

APRIL 26, 2022

Hiring restaurant employees and retaining them is no longer just an issue for the HR team. As CFO, you can play a key role in the corporate direction for hiring restaurant employees, retention and staffing investments. Why hiring restaurant employees is now a CFO concern. The high cost of employee turnover.

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Restaurant365

APRIL 19, 2022

How to manage labor cost is a challenge that all restaurant operators face daily as many restaurant businesses are forced to offer more competitive wages, benefits to hourly employees and other concessions to attract more employees from the shrinking applicant pool. What is a good labor cost percentage?

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Hot Schedules

OCTOBER 23, 2019

HotSchedules Employees to Give Back During Global Charity Day Oct. Employees across the company’s Austin, Atlanta, Denver, and Sydney offices will take the day to volunteer at a number of local charities. Related Posts. Luckily, there are ways to defeat this back office villain. The Denver, Colo.,

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Restaurant365

MARCH 10, 2020

When you think of your restaurant finances, do you think of your inventory? Your restaurant inventory management is an oft-forgotten component of your finances, but the amount of product you have on hand represents a large part of your budget. What is Restaurant Inventory Management? Sitting Inventory.

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Hot Schedules

MARCH 26, 2019

See how improving your employee experience will boost the guest experience, too. Engaging your employees will encourage them to stay. Engaging your employees will encourage them to stay. Disengaged vs. Engaged Employees. As you may imagine, disengaged employees deliver mediocre or negative customer experiences.

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