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2024 Emergency Planning for Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

How to Better Ensure You Won’t Need Your Fire Extinguisher The best response is to prevent a fire before it starts by updating and cleaning your kitchen equipment, ensuring rags and smoking materials are disposed of properly, investing in Class K extinguishers and finally 86ing flaming shots. Invest in a drop safe.

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This week in restaurant news: off-premise hospitality, ghost kitchens, restaurant safety awards

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Rise of the Ghost Kitchens: How Virtual Restaurants Are Reshaping L.A.’s Emerging ghost kitchens may prepare food for dozens of delivery-only brands simultaneously, all out of the same space, reporter Garrett Snyder writes – think fish and chips alongside quinoa salads and spicy wings. … Read more. … Read more.

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10 Top Restaurant Technologies To Evolve Your Business

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Delivery, scheduling, inventory management, reservations, and guest management have seen technological advancements over the past few years, and it's just the beginning. Use order information with inventory management software for smarter purchasing. Restaurant Task Management. Restaurant Inventory Management Software.

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How to Effectively Sanitize & Clean Your Restaurant

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There’s nothing better than a tidy workstation and clean range hood before service hour; and the post-shift scrub down of the kitchen can be a form of meditation for stressed out chefs. Have your guests contribute to keeping your restaurant clean and safe by following a few safety procedures! Choose the right cleaning products ??

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COVID-19 Best Practices for Restaurants: Navigating Coronavirus for Staff & Managers

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Restaurant owners and operators are encouraged to review the online resources their state and local health departments have provided for the latest information about COVID-19 in their community, and take extra precautionary steps in the workplace to protect the safety and wellbeing of staff and guests. Communicate with staff and managers.

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Best Practices to Prevent Theft in Your Restaurant

Modern Restaurant Management

It’s also more prevalent than some restaurant owners and managers might want to believe. Make sure the important areas of your kitchen are easily visible on surveillance such as the cooler and cabinets, register and all entrances and exits. Inventory Management System. Why is this helpful?

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How a Restaurant Closing Checklist Benefits Your Business

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To expedite the process of wrapping up for the night, restaurant and bar owners can turn to a closing checklist that outlines tasks to be completed by front-of-house staff, back-of-house staff, and management. Taking inventory and reporting low-stock items to the chef or manager. Properly securing all cash in a drop safe.