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How to Put Employees First, From 4 Restaurateurs

7 Shifts

Use tech to save time When you or your managers are bogged down with administrative tasks, it’s hard to make time for check-ins or coaching with staff. can put financials, we can put our sales spreadsheets, word documents. Then we moved all our shared documents into SharePoint.”

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How a Performance Improvement Plan Could Save You $80K

Bar and Restaurant Coach

A Performance Improvement Plan gives your leadership team an opportunity to refocus, retrain and retain the talent you’ve already invested time and money in—rather than starting all over again with a newbie. A PIP is a standardized disciplinary process to either: (1) coach an employee to an acceptable performance level, or. (2)

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What Are Standard Operating Procedures in Restaurants?

Crunchtime

Standard restaurant operating procedures help staff and leadership do their jobs better and ultimately, make customers happier. In the past, paper checklists have been used to hold a store manager accountable for work such as maintaining a complete record of food temperatures or performing a monthly food safety audit.

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Top 8 Qualities to Look for in a Hospitality Employee

MBB Hospitality

Strong Leadership Skills. Even employees who are not direct supervisors need to have strong leadership skills. When you know all your employees have a strong leadership skills, you will be able to feel confident that your team can handle anything that is thrown at them. MBB Management has a well-established client list.

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The restaurant industry needs to step up for women. We asked four leaders how to do it.

7 Shifts

If we can remove that guesswork and have a lot of helpful documentation, and clear, easy-to-use tools.that opportunity to make the wrong decision will become less frequent,” says Laura Bien. “A Put women in leadership roles. One of the main reasons was the management thought they had lower leadership potential.

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Succession Strategies for Restaurant Owners: Safeguarding Your Legacy 

Modern Restaurant Management

Rember that while operations may be covered by your bench, any would-be replacement may also need coaching or specific training to get them ready for all the management aspects of their role. Think of this like your living will where someone has the authority to make your health decisions.

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Why Brasa Peruvian Kitchen Believes in Higher Wages and Pay Transparency

7 Shifts

And of course, including myself and our senior leadership team, we hire and off-board according to these values. From there, in our weekly and monthly performance reviews, we have to bring the core values to the table and coach people according to whether they've been living within them or not. And then we point to them. That's fair.