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MRM EXCLUSIVE: New Research Reveals Restaurant Managers Are Key Ingredient in the Recipe for Staff Retention

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurant employees play an integral role in the dining experience, representing the building blocks of delightful guest experiences, ultimately creating loyal patrons who come back for more. However, in today's economic environment, restaurant staffing is being put to the test, posing a bigger challenge today than ever before.

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How to Utilize Technology to Keep Your Restaurant Staff Safe This Winter

Modern Restaurant Management

While restaurant owners can put six feet between tables, limit dining room capacity or close indoor dining completely, it’s much harder to create a safe environment in the back of the house. That means your back-of-house employees will need every advantage they can find. 86 Paper Chits.

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How Restaurants Can Remain Competitive in 2021

7 Shifts

2020 was a year that the restaurant industry won’t soon forget. From a projected record growth at the top of the year to a decline of nearly $240 billion in sales and 2.5 million out of work, it was nothing short of devastating. Through it all, we emerge from the year as an industry in evolution—and our restaurants need to evolve with it.

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How to Put Employees First, From 4 Restaurateurs

7 Shifts

“Take better care of your staff.” We’ve all heard it. Some of us know that we should - but in between dealing with maintenance issues and hiring new employees, it can be hard enough to take care of yourself, let alone your staff. With rising food and labor costs, how can you prioritize the working conditions for your team so they stick around?

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It’s your money: A comprehensive guide to recovering delivery losses

Rocket Fuel

This poses an opportunity for operators to grow their overall sales and profits—If they can recover inevitable delivery losses and keep their staff from spending hundreds of hours monthly on said in-house recovery efforts. Ability to dig into which stores, days of the week, and/or dayparts may require more attention and coaching 03.

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The 5 Things Food Vendors Don't Want You to Know

Embrace the Suck

They also learned how to make money by filling up empty trucks going back to their market with what is known as the backhaul. Having worked as a consultant for a large foodservice distributor for 4 years, I learned a lot about their business. A lot of stuff they don’t want you to know! In foodservice, it’s their operations team.

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Is your QSR operation ready for a data dashboard? 4 telltale signs.

Rocket Fuel

With just about every aspect of your operation comes data – from your POS, payroll, and scheduling systems, to back-of-house and inventory, and everything in between. There are numerous uses for data dashboards, and a bunch of fantastic money and time-saving perks to using them ( like saving Area Coaches 2+ hours of work a day!