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Restaurant Staff Training 101

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Back-of-house (BOH) staff, including chefs and kitchen assistants, will focus more on food safety, food handling, and kitchen equipment use. A well-informed team improves service, enhances the dining experience, and reduces errors in the kitchen. Let’s say you run a fast-casual restaurant.

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Restaurant Industry in Review: Trends from June 2025

Black Box Intelligence

Staffing challenges: 40% of brands report being constantly understaffed in FOH, 54% saying they’re usually understaffed in BOH. It spread across nearly every restaurant segment, with all but Fast Casual accelerating their year-over-year same-store sales growth compared to May. Comp Sales -0.9%

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

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features dining trends, hiring trends, tech trends, brunch trends, alcohol trends, and egg prices. American Diner Trends Despite a higher cost of living, the average consumer’s dining habits are unchanged.

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The Guide to Equitable Restaurant Tip Payout Methods & Systems

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Full-service restaurant, fine dining. Cafes, breweries, some full service restaurants, casual restaurants. Ensures that BOH staff receives a share of tips. Casual restaurants, fast food, quick service. Fast casual, cafes, breweries, Percentage of sales. Tip Pooling by FOH & BOH.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

Vetting dining room, bar, and kitchen staff over the next decade will require probing more during job interviews, seeking candidates with more responsible lifestyles, advanced educational aspirations, and other evidence of a disciplined, drug-free work ethic will become even more of an HR imperative. Of course, people will always dine out.

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How The Snug Took Control of Labor and Evolved Their Restaurant

7 Shifts

Outdoor dining One way they evolved their operations was by taking advantage of San Francisco’s new shared spaces program to extend their dining outdoors in order to keep revenue up. After two months, they reopened with just the four main co-founders running the operation. It's the future to me, and we all have to accept it.

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14 Restaurant Management Tools to Make your Business More Efficient

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Many fast food chains already have successful kiosk setups, with McDonald’s being the most prominent. This helps prevent stockouts, which are frustrating for customers and BOH and can hurt your restaurant’s bottom line. Reservation-tracking tools use your dining room’s capacity and floor plan, which helps prevent overbooking.