Remove Book Remove Coaching Remove Front of House Remove Specials
article thumbnail

How to Improve Team Communication with Restaurant Staff and Management

7 Shifts

Maybe one of your servers just called in sick at the last minute, your shipment of inventory containing all the ingredients for tonight's dinner special never showed up or the plumbing is acting up again. At times, it's a civil war between your front-of-house and back-of-house teams. Table of Contents. Field questions.

article thumbnail

How To Run an Effective Pre-Shift Meeting

7 Shifts

But it's the good shifts, when the front of house and back of house are flowing like a symphony, when customers are delighted, and the restaurant atmosphere feels effortless—that's the best part about restaurants. This section of the meeting gives managers time to teach and coach their team. What is a pre-shift meeting.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

CLOSING THE RINGS OF THE TOTAL RESTAURANT EXPERIENCE

Culinary Cues

For the past six months I have been committed to an exercise regimen thanks to my Apple Watch. Closing the rings of movement, exercise, and standing has been a goal since I first strapped on the watch, a goal that consumes my attention and cannot be broken for fear that I will simply fall off the pattern if the rings fail to close for one day.

article thumbnail

The 11 Habits of Outstanding Restaurants

Embrace the Suck

Many of my clients when they first start my coaching program do a big sales number. Simon Sinek in his best-selling book titled Start With Why says that “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.” Here’s where restaurant owners get off track. They focus on the wrong things. Sales is a vanity metric.

article thumbnail

Table Turnover Rate in Your Restaurant: How to Improve & Seat Incomplete Parties

Lavu

What is Restaurant Table Turnover Rate? Table turnover rate measures of how often a table is occupied by a new group of guests during a specific period of time. It is calculated by dividing the number of guests served by the number of tables available during that time period. The ideal turnover rate changes based on type of restaurant.

Seating 173
article thumbnail

20 Challenge Situations for Training Restaurant Managers & Head Chefs in Problem Solving

Ken Burgin

Some of the ways to use these situations for training and coaching… Let people choose the one they want to answer and give them 5 minutes to make notes and prepare their answers. Ask people from one department to suggest a solution for another department eg front of house suggests the solution for a kitchen problem.

article thumbnail

How Kwini Reed Makes Intentional Restaurants at Poppy + Rose and Poppy & Seed

7 Shifts

She joined us on The Pre-Shift Podcast to discuss her philosophy on managing a team, including how she coaches managers. I seen the books. She now co-owns Poppy + Rose, Poppy & Seed , and Root of all Food , an LA-based catering company. But first, Reed recounts how she followed her husband into restaurants. "I It served a purpose.