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A Guide to Black Box Intelligence Data: How to See Current Trends Broken Down by Restaurant Category

Black Box Intelligence

They may also offer alcoholic beverages, but they’re typically a small contribution to the overall sales mix. Workforce data: tracking trends for FOH and BOH staff. Back-of-house (BOH) encompasses all of the employees who work in the kitchen, such as restaurant cooks, chefs, etc. fewer BOH and 2.8 fewer FOH employees.

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Food, Hospitality & Wellness ‘Places’ Transcending the Resources & Mining Village Work-Life Experience

Future Food

The 70% BOH food preparation process gets near 100% of the catering service providers focus with no resources directly allocated to and accountable for the last 30% food presentation in dining rooms, every day, every service period - the customer moment of truth.

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8 Tips to Optimize Restaurant Labor Costs Despite Higher Minimum Wages

Restaurant365

Applying tools like smart employee scheduling based on SPLH percentage goals to your management, FOH, and BOH teams individually helps you optimize each part of your labor cost. This may cover everything from streamlining your menu so your BOH can be more efficient to changing the service well so servers can take care of tables faster.

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Meeting Off-Premise Demand While Rebuilding In-Restaurant Sales to Boost Profitability

Restaurant365

If you are successful at attracting customers back to your dining room, you need to have the right FOH and BOH team to support increased sales levels. Employers are experimenting with how to overcome hiring challenges by using hiring technology and tools and other recruitment tactics. Track Your Labor Costs.

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The restaurant industry needs to step up for women. We asked four leaders how to do it.

7 Shifts

Female restaurateurs have made invaluable contributions to the food & beverage space. And how many of those women work in the FOH rather than the BOH? Is there something in the hiring or recruiting process that leaves women out? At Hopdoddy, they use an open kitchen concept so that the FOH and BOH are more integrated.

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[Guide] Restaurant Management Tips & Tactics: 2019 Field Guide

7 Shifts

Inventory management: Monitor and maintain food and beverage stock levels. A high turnover means you now have to recruit, select, and train new candidates, which takes time and costs money. Because happier employees are also less likely to leave, you don't spend money recruiting and training new hires.

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Restaurant Experts’ 2021 Outlook, Part One

Modern Restaurant Management

Chris Adams, VP of Strategy, Oracle Food & Beverage. As the food and beverage industry continues its digital transformation, restaurateurs need to prepare to take advantage of a tidal wave of data these interactions create. generation. Ross Franklin, CEO and Founder of Pure Green Franchise.

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