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8 Ways to Navigate The Restaurant Staff Shortage

Lavu

Make sure that you are paying your employees a fair wage and offering competitive benefits, such as health insurance, paid time off, and retirement savings plans. The system can also automatically send orders to the kitchen or bar, eliminating the need for manual communication. This is essential for attracting and retaining top talent.

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When Robots Replace Restaurant Workers, We All Lose

EATER

Diners would sit down and immediately download an app to browse the menu, place their order, and pay with a credit card, all on their phones. As startups have “disrupted” the restaurant industry, they’ve replaced menus and hand-written orders with kitchen display systems (KDS), ordering tablets, and QR codes.

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The True Cost of Keeping a Restaurant Open During a Pandemic

EATER

So, when we order meat today, we have that many days to pay for it. We do pay cash to some vendors at the farmers markets, but that’s about it. You can’t let people go without health insurance. That’s 35 employees who were on our insurance plan, for just Kin Khao. You can’t let people go without health insurance.

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What Now? COVID-19 Survival Guide for Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

Due to the Covid-19 outbreak effect on the restaurant industry, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine is compiling a list of resources available for restaurant owners, operators and managers. Global insurance brokerage Hub International , is responding tonumerous inquiries asking for more guidance through the Coronavirus crisis.

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How DoorDash and Postmates Make an Already Dangerous Job Worse

EATER

Despite the fact that the pandemic put all of these workers in grave danger while they were offered none of the unemployment insurance benefits given other workers, the gig companies were able to use expensive and sophisticated propaganda to confuse voters. Vianne once delivered a Starbucks order to one well-known celebrity.

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8 Things To Pay Attention To Before Starting Up A Food Truck

The Restaurant Times

After all, they let you change sites, keep menus short and focused, and create an exciting and dynamic small company on wheels since they are smaller and most importantly mobile, unlike a restaurant. However, translating one’s concept of a friendly neighbourhood mobile diner into a thriving business is no easy task. .

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MRM Restaurant Survival Guide, Part Three

Modern Restaurant Management

To add resources to these guides, reach out to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com with news. Their technology allows a restaurant to enable curbside order, pay and delivery – with 24 hours. More than 1,500 have signed up.