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How Restaurants Can Remain Competitive in 2021

7 Shifts

Ordering online, paying with mobile phones, scanning QR codes for a menu, and a ton of takeout, are just a part of dining out now. The big chains and national brands may be more well equipped than independents to embrace the evolving industry, but independents can thrive with a bit of strategy.

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What Trends Are You Seeing and What Can We Expect to See More of in 2022?

Modern Restaurant Management

Given the increase in off-premise, we expect to see more drive-thru’s similar in format to Checkers & Rally’s iconic double drive-thru model, which dedicates one lane to traditional consumer drive-thru service and one to e-commerce only, including pre-paid digital orders for pickup and third party-delivery orders.

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Touchless Ketchup, Icing on the Frosting and Bobacino

Modern Restaurant Management

Each Station is powered by Sharebite’s enterprise-ready technology platform, enabling companies to centrally manage employee food ordering and facilitate contactless deliveries at designated drop-off points inside office buildings. Toast unveiled the next generation of its mobile handheld point of sale: Toast Go® 2.

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What Are Standard Operating Procedures in Restaurants?

Crunchtime

As businesses grow and open more locations, developing these standard restaurant operating procedures (SOPs) becomes infinitely more critical in order to run an efficient and profitable business. Shift change: mid day, what work needs to be done in order to change over to a new team and help them be successful and ready for the next shift?

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20 Challenge Situations for Training Restaurant Managers & Head Chefs in Problem Solving

Ken Burgin

Some of the ways to use these situations for training and coaching… Let people choose the one they want to answer and give them 5 minutes to make notes and prepare their answers. Your challenge is to ensure customer satisfaction and maintain cooking quality and pace whilst working with less equipment. Share and compare.

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Restaurant Modernization — It’s More than Customer-Facing Tech

Modern Restaurant Management

Coach Employees to Be an Extension of Your CQO. That’s why it’s important to coach employees (not just have them memorize rules) to help them understand why they’re being asked to follow certain rules. However, they still need to send you documentation and data in order to remain approved suppliers for your business.

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Ghost Kitchen Franchise and Pandemic Resources

Modern Restaurant Management

“Cities such as San Francisco and Honolulu, which have had some of the nation’s strictest stay-at-home orders, are now seeing the highest numbers of closures relative to the number of businesses in their respective cities.” ” Increased Consumer Activity in May Correlates with Increased COVID-19 Cases in June.

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