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What is a Restaurant’s Front Of House (FOH) – Everything You Need To Know

The Restaurant Times

Front-of-house (FOH) refers to all activities and settings a patron will experience while dining at a restaurant, including the lobby and dining area. The FOH staff greets and receives customers and relays their requests. Directing early customers to the bar area while they are waiting for their tables.

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Why 4 Restaurants Opt for a Service Charge Instead of Tips

7 Shifts

Can customers still leave tips? They also receive most of the service charge from beverage sales. Can customers still leave tips? Can customers still leave tips? Can customers still leave tips? Getting buy-in from FOH staff is crucial, especially servers. But wait — there’s more. Servers love it.

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Why 4 Restaurants Opt for a Service Charge Instead of Tips

7 Shifts

Can customers still leave tips? They also receive most of the service charge from beverage sales. Can customers still leave tips? Can customers still leave tips? Can customers still leave tips? Getting buy-in from FOH staff is crucial, especially servers. But wait — there’s more. Servers love it.

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Menu Engineering: Innovating Menus for Profitability and Simplicity

Aaron Allen & Associates

Unique and creative dishes can captivate customers’ attention, leading to increased foot traffic and social media buzz. However, the menu innovation must be purposeful; it should reflect the restaurant’s brand identity and core values, thereby enhancing the dining experience and establishing a loyal customer base.

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Restaurant Labor Cost Control: 11 Reports to Optimize Labor

Restaurant365

Calculating your restaurant labor cost and sales for a specific period indicates how your employee labor hours are matching with customer demand. If your labor cost as a percentage of sales is currently at an impressive 27%, see if you can reduce that by 3% in the next year without diluting the customer experience.

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

7 Shifts

My managers also used code names based on menu items to “rate” female customers. Female restaurateurs have made invaluable contributions to the food & beverage space. Your next step is to signal to your staff (and customers) what you stand for. And how many of those women work in the FOH rather than the BOH?

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Kitchen Display Systems: How Your Restaurant Can Benefit

Lavu

As a restaurateur, you want to provide your customers with the best dining experience you can. A kitchen display screen shows the pending orders that are being prepared and streamlines communication between the front-of-the-house (FOH) and back-of-the-house (BOH) sections of a restaurant. This helps reduce human error.

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