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Back of House Restaurant Guide: Integrating FOH and BOH for Seamless Operations 

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The back-of-house (or BOH) manages crucial elements that impact cost control and profitability. Additionally, the BOH handles food safety and restaurant administration. The back of the house supports the front of the house (FOH), enabling the customer-facing team to focus on serving a memorable experience. Cost control.

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How to Create an Effective Restaurant Onboarding Process

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Customer service training. Customize this overview to fit your restaurant’s onboarding timeline. Give out hard copies and make digital copies accessible on a cloud storage system so that staff can easily reference them. Customer service training Customer service is the cornerstone of hospitality.

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How To Create a Fair Holiday Work Schedule For Restaurants

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You can reference average party size, takeout vs. on-premise orders, the popular menu items, and other key metrics to to forecast restaurant sales. Once you've determined the need to adjust your schedule for the holidays, the next step is to work with employees on their availability to build schedules that work for them and your customers.

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Restaurant Tip Outs Guide: Methods, Tip Splitting, Pooling, and More

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At full-service restaurants, even tip splitting is still an option. However, this option can backfire if not all team members hold themselves to the same standard of service. Tip Pooling by FOH & BOH. Sharing tips with kitchen employees is an effective way to bridge the wage gap between FOH and BOH workers.

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5 Effective Ways to Increase Profit Margins at Your Restaurant

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In our last article we explored adding auto-gratuity to the bill and sharing tips with BOH staff. This sparked a lively debate around the efficacy of mandatory service fees. Is it fair towards customers? On the other hand, tipping has always been perceived as a discretionary means to incentivize good service.

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6 Effective Ways to Increase Profit Margins at Your Restaurant

Cheetah

In our last article we explored adding auto-gratuity to the bill and sharing tips with BOH staff. This sparked a lively debate around the efficacy of mandatory service fees. Is it fair towards customers? On the other hand, tipping has always been perceived as a discretionary means to incentivize good service.

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How To Formulate A Restaurant Manager Job Description

The Restaurant Times

As such, the ability to manage conflict is also an essential requirement for a restaurant manager to ensure that staff members cooperate with each other and create the best possible customer experience. . Typically, a restaurant’s operation can be categorized into two parts – front-of-house (FOH) and back-of-house (BOH).