7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Here’s an example of an onboarding overview: Day One Orientation: Learning about the restaurant’s culture and history, meeting coworkers, and receiving a uniform. What to include in your restaurant onboarding process. What documentation to give out and collect during onboarding. What is employee onboarding?

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FOH BOH Food Safety Customer Service 307

Open for Business

MARCH 1, 2023

Casual restaurant interviews A more laid-back restaurant doesn’t mean laid-back interview preparation. Your approach to what to wear to an interview at a casual place can be more laid back though. Office setting, front of house, or back of house? Wear what you would wear to work a shift there.

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Front of House Back of House Uniforms Casual 78

Touch Bistro

MARCH 25, 2021

Considering three in four restaurant workers leave their employers within a year, and the average cost of turnover can set a restaurant back as much as $5,864 per employee (ouch!) Communicate restaurant guidelines and policies. restaurateurs should pay special mind to this last one. But we’re not here to spread doom and gloom.

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Hiring Employee Relations FOH BOH 52

Hot Schedules

MAY 21, 2020

How the COVID pandemic forced them to update operations, sanitation, communication and much more. 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.

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Back of House Employee Relations FOH BOH 148

EATER

MAY 20, 2020

The groups behind Safety First plan to release more front of house guidance soon. In the meantime, the NRA and others already offer guidance on FOH logistics like food running, customer management, bathroom safety, and customer takeout. There are also plans for versions in Spanish and Mandarin. Update: May 20, 2020, 11:07 a.m.:

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Kitchen Safety Food Safety Food Supply Healthcare 102

EATER

MAY 14, 2020

The groups behind Safety First plan to release more front of house guidance soon. In the meantime, the NRA and others already offer guidance on FOH logistics like food running, customer management, bathroom safety, and customer takeout. There are also plans for versions in Spanish and Mandarin.

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Kitchen Safety Food Safety Food Supply Healthcare 98