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How to Improve Team Communication with Restaurant Staff and Management

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You would think something as second nature to people as communication would be easy to manage in the workplace. Communication is the key to facilitating productive relationships between managers and employees. Keeping your staff in the dark about upper management decisions. The best way to manage is to do so with your own eyes.

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Lessening Employee Anxiety as Restaurant Doors Open

Modern Restaurant Management

As more restaurants in the United States receive the go-ahead to open their doors for indoor dining, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine reached out to industry experts on ways to calm employee anxiety. Rick Camac, Dean of Restaurant & Hospitality Management at the Institute of Culinary Education. Even though they have ?less

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How to Find and Retain Workers During the Restaurant Hiring Crisis

Modern Restaurant Management

But the bad news is they are having trouble hiring and filling positions across the board for cooks, servers, FOH and BOH positions. Here is some of our advice for restaurant hiring managers during this stressful time of finding candidates. A lot of hiring managers are stuck in an old mindset. Get Proactive.

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

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My managers also used code names based on menu items to “rate” female customers. When she was 23, the manager asked her to put on makeup in one of her first shifts at a breakfast grill. Alison Edginton is the Manager of Training & New Can Openings at Smalls Sliders , an American burger QSR in Louisiana. She promptly quit.

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Restaurant Accounting Concepts Every Manager Should Know About

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As the owner or manager of a restaurant, when you’re aiming to grow profitability, accounting is an area where you need to be comfortable. It might be considered the most dreaded part of running your business, but to be profitable and to manage the money, there’s no way it can be avoided. Unavoidable Restaurant Expenses.

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Restaurant Modernization — It’s More than Customer-Facing Tech

Modern Restaurant Management

What do quality teams need to do to keep up with our new urgent need for tech and other changes to help us through today’s murky waters of standards management? I believe tech, especially quality management software (QMS), plays a big part behind the scenes of restaurants. Coach Employees to Be an Extension of Your CQO.

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5 ways to improve your quick-service restaurant’s speed of service in 2024

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Instruct your shift managers and RGMs to utilize your POS system’s Training Mode whenever there is downtime. Having POS, BOH, labor, VOC, and SOS metrics available in one place allows you to easily compare metrics and get a clear picture of your areas of improvement.

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