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How to Increase Employee Productivity

7 Shifts

Staff productivity plays the largest role in restaurant revenue, which is why it’s so important to invest in your recruiting and hiring strategies, finding like-minded individuals to move your restaurant forward while minimizing time waste. It’s important to educate your staff about the correlation between productivity and profit.

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Pandemic Reflections: What Lessons Has the Restaurant Industry Learned?, Part Two

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurant employees had to pivot and consider looking at other industries for employment, so when restaurants opened back up, some of those employees didn’t return to the restaurant industry. The past five years have reinforced the critical intersection of digital and hospitality in the restaurant industry.

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Restaurant Managers Breaking Their Backs for A Thankless Job

Gecko Hospitality

Whether they’re rushing plates to tables, helping to defuse a customer complaint, or coordinating between the front and back of house, their leadership style radiates through hands-on involvement. But the truth is, managing a restaurant is every bit as grueling, chaotic, and skill demanding as the most labor intensive roles.

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Five Years After COVID, the Restaurant Labor Market Has Yet to Recover

EATER

Now, restaurant owners and chefs across the country say theyre still struggling to recruit and retain talent. Kriston Jae Bethel/Bloomberg via Getty Images The COVID pandemic accelerated a labor shortage in the industry. In the spring of 2021, restaurants across the country were scrambling to find staff.

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MRM Research Roundup: To-Go Trends, State of the Plate, and Black Market Reservations

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features trends in off-premise, coffee wars, the AI lifeline, the return of lunch, and how teens spend their dollars. More than 60 percent say they’re ordering off-premises more often than a year ago. Older adults still prefer in-person ordering.

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The New Normal: How Technology Can Help Streamline Restaurant Operations

Modern Restaurant Management

According to the 2021 State of the Restaurant Industry Mid-Year Update , more than 3 in 4 restaurant operators struggle with recruitment and retention, despite an increase in employment. Last year, during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, restaurants went through some unwanted but necessary changes. Dining room procedures. Staff Management.

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Our Wage Models are Broken

7 Shifts

We operate as a tip pool restaurant with equal parts shared between the back and front of the house, weighted by position and number of hours worked. It’s no secret that with a workforce mass exodus and rising minimum wages, the restaurant industry is long overdue for an overhaul of its business structure and compensation model.