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Restaurant Accounting Tips Made Simple: Expert Ways to Boost Profits in 2025

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This also includes payroll taxes and employee benefits. First, employees who work for more than 40 hours weekly have a statutory entitlement to overtime rates for every extra hour worked. For you to do this, you need to understand the restaurant accounting terminologies and how they relate to your restaurant’s needs.

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MRM Research Roundup: Diner Resiliency, Automation Technology, and Egg Prices

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Turnover Costs : The expense of replacing staff can be as much as $1,056 per FOH position and $1,491 per BOH position. Whether it's an independent operator hiring a few dozen people per year, or a large national brand hiring several thousand, employee recruitment and retention is a hands-on and time-consuming process.

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

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Value matters, too—over 80 percent of consumers utilize deals like "Buy One, Get One” offers, combo meals, or real-time specials. GreenPoints™ This Certified Green Restaurant® has 100 percent LED lights, Green-e Energy Certified Green Wind Power that offsets 100 percent of energy usage, and BOH and FOH composting.

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The 11 Employee Scheduling Best Practices + Tips for Restaurants

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Employee scheduling for your restaurant can be the most stressful part of your job. It seems you're always either understaffed or overstaffed, either FOH or BOH , at the worst times. Cross-Train Your Employees. Cross-training restaurant employees can also be beneficial for their career advancement.

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Decade of Disruption: Restaurant Insiders Dish What’s on the Plate

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Third, the onslaught of opioid, vaping, and alcohol combinations have forced the restaurant industry to begin hiring completely different generations of rock star employees, in both the front and back of the house. A lot of places are also offering dine-in only specials or dishes that can only be ordered in-house. Reduce theft.

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Cultivate Relations between Chef and FOH Staff

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Poor employee relations go unnoticed and slip-ups in communications can be handled without disturbing the customer experience. This is nowhere as obvious as the relations between chef and FOH staff. . Below, we suggest several ways to improve relations with your chef and FOH staff. Menu Education. Productivity increases.

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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. Many customers relate to the plight of service staff and are fine paying for what is clearly intended to supplement higher wages. To go around this, consider the ‘Specials Menu’. Is it fair towards customers? Retention means money.