Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

We use Highlight Healthcare as our primary healthcare for all employees that couples with the umbrella health insurance from the Affordable Care Act. “I really bought into Danny Meyers culture by first reading his book Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business.

Employee Relations 450

Employee Relations Healthcare Insurance Communication 450

7 Shifts

JUNE 3, 2022

Use Manager Log Books. Use log books to give your day and night manager a way to share notes with each other. Log books also give your team the ability to look back and track progress. 7shifts Manager Log Book Software for Restaurants. Log books also give your team the ability to look back and track progress.

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Tip Distribution Email Marketing Communication Coaching 397

7 Shifts

APRIL 23, 2021

Benefits like health insurance, pet insurance, or retirement plans. In his classic book, Setting the Table, Danny Meyer outlined his process for hiring at Union Square Hospitality Group— the 51% solution. You have to stand out, clear and proud. Paid vacation and sick days. Low employee turnover rate.

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Hiring Front of House Back of House Food Safety 370

EATER

DECEMBER 16, 2021

With her newest book One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America , published in the fall of 2021, Jayaraman furthers the movement. With each chapter, she highlights the ways the tipped minimum wage exploits workers from a particular job category, including restaurant servers, delivery drivers, nail technicians, and more. Monica Burton.

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Back of House Delivery Employee Relations Mobile Ordering 363

SpotOn

JANUARY 13, 2025

If you take reservations, you can close your reservation books by modifying your reservation hours. This will be helpful for filing insurance claims and applying for state or federal aid programs as they become available.  Document everything If your physical location has been damaged by wildfires, document everything.

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Online Ordering Document Email Marketing Back of House 98

7 Shifts

JULY 29, 2020

Use 7shifts’ Manager Log Book to ensure that all restaurant recruiting managers understand and follow the new restaurant interviews process. If you’re considering asking FOH staff to work as delivery drivers , make sure they have valid drivers’ licenses, access to cars that are in good condition, car insurance, and clean driving records.

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Recruiting Kitchen Safety Employee Relations Food Safety 293

EATER

MAY 31, 2023

He also published a book of essays about his beekeeping experiences called Honey and Venom: Confessions of an Urban Beekeeper. It’s harvesting honey, centrifuging honey, bottling honey, labeling bottles, dealing with wholesalers and market managers, cash apps and banks, insurances, clients, and schools.

Insurance 246

Insurance Email Marketing Cash Management 2005 246

7 Shifts

AUGUST 2, 2024

This metric helps you measure the amount spent on labor, particularly salaries, worker benefits, insurance, overtime, and payroll taxes. Overhead rate The overhead rate is a metric in restaurant accounting that includes various operational expenses such as utilities , rent, administrative costs, insurance, license, and depreciation.

Point of Sale 397

Point of Sale Inventory Seasonal Menu Cash Management 397

7 Shifts

MAY 11, 2020

Book a demo to learn more. Restart any utilities like power, water, heat that you may have temporarily shut off during quarantine Get in touch with pest control Restart phone & internet Contact your insurance provider Restart your rent (if payments were deferred) Equipment: ?? Sanitization and cleaning ??

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BOH Food Safety FOH Equipment 368

EATER

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Margins are tighter than ever as restaurants try to balance higher costs of rent and ingredients, reservation site fees and insurance premiums , and paying fair wages, all while trying to keep prices at a level customers will actually pay. Things are feeling more expensive everywhere.

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Pricing Back of House Food Order Front of House 363

EATER

AUGUST 16, 2023

I’d opened 10 restaurants for Momofuku and I was about to write my first book when I learned about an accelerator program helping to launch nonalcoholic drink businesses. My COO stayed on, unpaid but on the company’s health insurance plan for another year, while we had to let the brand ambassador go in the middle of the summer of 2020.

Point of Sale 246

Point of Sale Front of House Back of House Online Ordering 246

7 Shifts

JULY 21, 2020

Healthcare costs: group healthcare benefits, insurance premiums, etc. PPP Loans The Paycheck Protection Program seeks to protect jobs and cover other employee-related expenses by offering small businesses SBA loan amounts up to 2.5 times your restaurant's monthly payroll costs.

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Cash Management Government Small Business Healthcare 300

7 Shifts

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Your employees can’t access their own pay information People expect digital self-service tools now, for everything from banking to booking a haircut. They should be able to see their hourly wage, hours worked, overtime, tip breakdown, and deductions like taxes, garnishments or insurance premiums for a given pay period.

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Customer Service Information Insurance Pricing 221

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Diners will be planning ahead this year, with 31 percent planning to book three to four weeks out. Results also indicate that restaurants and bars should expect to see high demand for large party bookings, with 52 percent of diners planning group outings of eight or more. Of those, 14 percent plan to book five or more weeks out.

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Food Truck Fast Casual Food 2024 251

EATER

JULY 13, 2021

In addition to the usual suspects of fixed costs — insurance, taxes, bank charges, POS, garbage, dishwasher, $9,000 monthly rent, hood cleaning, phone, loan repayments, and so on — Reem’s folds salaried management into this bracket. Fixed Costs: $4.65. I’ve thought about nixing this one. Michelle K.

Employee Relations 246

Employee Relations Delivery Food Order Restaurant Law 246

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

History books often reference a military battle tactic known as scorched earth, when one side would burn down all infrastructure and resources as they retreated in order to prevent the advancing side from using them. History was my favorite subject in school and is still one of my favorite subjects to read.

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2019 Employee Relations Restaurant Law Food Order 268

Hot Schedules

MARCH 29, 2021

We asked Assen to share one piece of advice to people interested in a PO role: “My sister actually gave me a present when I got promoted to a Product Owner – a book, which I strongly recommend to both present and future POs.

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Technology Insurance Healthcare Employee Relations 148

7 Shifts

MAY 23, 2024

While columnar pads and ledger books are great ways for new restaurant managers to learn about restaurant accounting and bookkeeping, opting for manual procedures can be difficult to reconcile. Your fixed costs, for instance, stay almost the same monthly and yearly, like your insurance and rent/lease payments.

Point of Sale 221

Point of Sale Seasonal Menu Food Supply Employee Relations 221

KaTom

JANUARY 30, 2020

“At the first station where I worked, before the coming of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), we read every hospital admission and discharge over the air, as well as every birth,” says Sauceman. Sauceman, who has now published five books with Mercer, also does editorial work for them.

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Book Magazine 2000 2010 146

Lavu

JUNE 26, 2025

Balancing your books and managing your finances are not really part of that overarching plan. Occupancy Expenses: This refers to fixed costs like rent, property taxes, utilities, and property insurance. Whichever the case, entering incorrect information into your restaurant books will result in skewed financial reports and KPIs.

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2025 Cash Management Point of Sale POS 113

Restaurant365

MAY 26, 2020

Your labor cost includes labor expenses such as wages for both salaried and hourly employees, payroll taxes, health or workers compensation insurance, and any benefits you offer. Employee Wages + Taxes + Benefits + Insurance = Total Labor Cost.

Point of Sale 148

Point of Sale Employee Relations Inventory Insurance 148

Sling

MAY 22, 2020

Added value and incentives , such as health insurance, life insurance, a 401k, and other fringe benefits , can help motivate team members to stay with your business longer. Sling even provides suggestions and warnings when you’ve double-booked a team member or created a conflict in another part of your schedule.

Management 144

Management Management Employee Relations Insurance 144

EATER

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In his book The Great Gelatin Revival , the food historian Ken Albala points out that Jell-O thrives in periods of technological innovation, and this was a particularly heady time. Or maybe people just never got around to the salads section of the book. Price: $450, or $16,200 today. Regret: probably eternal.)

Food Order 291

Food Order Tip Distribution Back of House Take-out 291

7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

When we think about employee benefits, health insurance and retirement (401k) usually come to mind. And college book reimbursement isn't going to make a difference for the working parent. Pet insurance. School book or tuition reimbursement. Offer tailored, valuable benefits. Home cleaning or laundry service.

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Front of House Back of House Cash Management Customer Experience 195

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2020

The merger will bring together the sales and event management platforms of Tripleseat and Gather with software solutions designed to streamline and simplify event booking and management. And because they’re online orders, we’re already cutting costs on labour, rent, insurance etc. Making a restaurant operations leaner.”

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Bar Cash Management Loyalty Program Point of Sale 386

The Rail

JUNE 19, 2023

By providing an easy-to-use reservation platform on your website or through a dedicated app, your guests can conveniently see the availability of tables on any given day and book for their preferred time. This not only saves their time and effort but also ensures a smooth dining experience, which enhances customer satisfaction.

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Dietary Restrictions Customer Experience Social Media Customer Service 147

Restaurant365

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Non-controllable costs, like the fixed costs of rent, insurance, and salaries, are predictable expenses. Occupancy expenses: fixed costs like rent, property taxes, and insurance. It proves that you have matched up all of your daily sales transactions and your books are accurate. Burdensome bank account reconciliation.

Point of Sale 120

Point of Sale Cash Management Consumer Goods Inventory 120

Restaurant365

JUNE 2, 2020

In addition to federal guidelines like the Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA) Tip Credit, mandating the credit (if any) that can be taken varies by state, with some states enacting further regulations. These taxes are used to finance social insurance programs, such as Social Security and Medicare. The first is a 12.4%

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Tip Distribution Restaurant Law Front of House Cash Management 109

7 Shifts

MAY 1, 2024

These costs include property tax (if you own the building) and even the insurance you pay for your building and equipment. Forgetting to include lease payments in your book of accounts could cause your business a lot of trouble—you might not even know that you’re already bleeding money.

Cash Management 221

Cash Management Employee Relations Inventory Beverage 221

The Rail

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

However, by making careful and strategic selections when booking live entertainment, you can keep things fresh and relevant and attract different customer bases. It will be critical that your insurances cover the particular options that you have chosen to offer your guests.

Entertainment 147

Entertainment Bar Equipment Sports 147

Ken Burgin

JULY 25, 2021

These could turn into attractive party bookings with the right follow up. This can be done by putting quotes around both words: “new insurance office” huntingdale. You may get better results by making sure the words ‘new’ and the type of business are next to each other in the items Google finds.

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Coupons Marketing Insurance Café 88

Sling

AUGUST 17, 2020

Insurance Salesperson. A full-time life insurance sales agent is often classified as a statutory employee because their main business activity is selling annuity contracts, life insurance (or both), for one insurance company. Home Worker. A home worker (a.k.a. Statutory Employee Management Tips.

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Definition Management Management Tip Distribution 78

Sling

JUNE 19, 2020

For example, if Business A offers a competitive wage while Business B offers the same competitive wage as well as medical insurance, most job seekers will choose Business B because they receive something more than just a wage for their efforts. Life insurance. Overtime Pay. Federal law mandates that an employer must pay at least 1.5

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Management Management Insurance Food Truck 78

EATER

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Unsurprisingly, the finger bowl is center stage in etiquette books from the early 20th century. Unfortunately, the expectations most diners have of servers — that they should deal with our bodily waste and risk their mostly insurance-free health statuses (even more precarious in the time of COVID-19) — are still marginal.

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Fast Casual Customer Service Dine-in Casual 260

Bingage

JANUARY 15, 2020

b) Read restaurant topic related books, successful restroprenuer interviews. Read the best books for starting a restaurant, have some discussion with people who are already in your industry, visit online, follow people who are already working awesome, follow what they are doing. Also should be expert in smart decision making, on time.

Food Truck 96

Food Truck Employee Relations Email Marketing Point of Sale 96

Sling

JULY 1, 2021

Direct labor cost includes everything that goes into compensating an employee for manufacturing a specific product or providing a specific service, including: Payroll taxes Company-paid medical insurance Life insurance Workers’ compensation Company-matched pension contributions Standard benefits Fringe benefits.

Definition 78

Definition Insurance Employee Relations Customer Service 78

Sling

DECEMBER 9, 2019

If so, you may be required by law under the ACA to provide health insurance to some of these workers — or face stiff penalties. Under the ESRP, applicable large employers must provide health insurance to their full-time (30+ hours per week) employees. Do you hire seasonal employees? The size of your business is also a factor.

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Insurance Tip Distribution Hiring 2010 78