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

Lavu

This should include all tables available for seating customers. 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.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Three

Modern Restaurant Management

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry experts for their views on what trends and challenges owners and operators can expect to see in 2024. This trend reflects the growing popularity of drive-thru and fast-casual dining, coupled with the demand for digital technologies such as QSR digital signage and QR codes.

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It’s Time to Focus on the Good

Modern Restaurant Management

The common thread is that each story is about incredible staff and great managers and that, together, they support each other inside and outside of the restaurant. Caring Managers. When the chef and general manager found this out, they immediately jumped into action. They purchased bandages and went to her apartment.

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Server Job Description Sample for Restaurant Hiring

Touch Bistro

Restaurant servers (also known as waiters and waitresses) are the front of house staff in your restaurant. Keep in mind that a fine dining server job description will vary from a family restaurant server job description. What is a Restaurant Server? Job Description. Server Responsibilities.

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Setting the stage: a guide to opening a restaurant

Open for Business

Whether it’s chic and modern or rustic and cozy, fine dining or casual, the atmosphere needs to enhance the dining experience and make it memorable for all the right reasons. Market research Before you even think about the menu or location, you need to understand the guests who will walk through your doors.

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BRING BACK THE 20 SEAT BISTRO

Culinary Cues

There were eighteen or twenty seats (mostly deuces) and in better weather maybe two more tables on the street or alleyway in front or beside these tastes of a chef. There were eighteen or twenty seats (mostly deuces) and in better weather maybe two more tables on the street or alleyway in front or beside these tastes of a chef.

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P.F. Chang’s To Go and Wing Squad Delivers

Modern Restaurant Management

PPX Hospitality Brands will manage two restaurant groups headquartered in metro Boston, the aforementioned Smith & Wollensky, and The Strega Group, a collection of Italian chophouses recently acquired from the Varano Group. This edition of MRM News Bites features Boston Market, Danu Partners, P.F. New CEO at Boston Market.