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How to Create a Restaurant Staff Training Manual

7 Shifts

The more staff you have to replace, the more money you have to spend on recruitment, and the more time you have to spend interviewing and training. In order to help new staff learn the ropes, you need to create a comprehensive restaurant staff training manual. Even your most seasoned staff can forget things.

Training 370
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Keeping Employees and Customers Safe Requires a Different Training Approach

Modern Restaurant Management

For example, will menus need to be re-designed to accommodate for safe distancing stations in the kitchen? Step 3 will be the ongoing training and coaching support to help everyone learn new processes and develop the safe behaviors. Why Is a Different Training Approach Required?

Training 215
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Podcast 13: Teaching Chefs About Kitchen Management and Menu Design

Ken Burgin

We expect a lot from chefs – not only to manage production and service, but keep to a budget, organise a team of people and handle safety issues, changing food trends, menu design & engineering, plus social media and a bit of marketing. What do most people not understand about recipe costing and menu design?

Design 113
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COOKS AND CHEFS – SIGN YOUR WORK

Culinary Cues

Support an employee’s growth through in-service training, sponsorship to attend workshops or seminars, buy your line cooks so great cookbook resources to study and dream about. Assign cooks the responsibility to design menu features and then celebrate their work. Invest in their excellence and they just might invest more in yours.

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The Winning Strategy: Attracting and Retaining Top Talent for Your Restaurant – A Four-Step Approach

Embrace the Suck

To assemble a high-performance team, you need to perpetually be recruiting, marketing, training, and learning. If you're considering revamping your hiring process and elevating your restaurant to the next level, consider joining Restaurant Masterminds, my premier group accountability coaching program designed for independent restaurants.

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8 Reasons Why Restaurant Workers Quit (And How to Retain Them)

7 Shifts

According to Jim Taylor, a restaurant coach at BenchmarkSixty , restaurants can afford to pay employees more by looking for efficiencies in their productivity. Showcase your core values in your employee handbook, in new-hire training, on your company careers page. The Solution: Create a training program. Lack of recognition.

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THAT ELUSIVE THING CALLED PERFECTION

Culinary Cues

Vince Lombardi, considered by many to be the greatest football coach of all time said: “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.” They hire and train the most dedicated professionals to execute the plan, and they are always focused on the details. Lots of questions without answers.

Coaching 368