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How to Improve Team Communication with Restaurant Staff and Management

7 Shifts

Maybe one of your servers just called in sick at the last minute, your shipment of inventory containing all the ingredients for tonight's dinner special never showed up or the plumbing is acting up again. At times, it's a civil war between your front-of-house and back-of-house teams. Table of Contents. Field questions.

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3 Steps to Get Your Business Ready for the Restaurant Reopening

Cheetah

Once you have a grasp on your establishment’s total allowed capacity, give some thought to the following: Inventory stock Back of house staff Social distancing and a better dining experience These 3 key pillars can make the difference between a streamlined restaurant reopening and a stalled one. Stock Up on Inventory.

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How to Put Employees First, From 4 Restaurateurs

7 Shifts

“Take better care of your staff.” We’ve all heard it. Some of us know that we should - but in between dealing with maintenance issues and hiring new employees, it can be hard enough to take care of yourself, let alone your staff. With rising food and labor costs, how can you prioritize the working conditions for your team so they stick around?

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

Modern Restaurant Management

Operators should gravitate towards technology to automate inventory and track costs and sales to determine the best course of action. Brooklyn Dumpling House just opened and they're already franchising the idea. We also foresee a lot of companies will redesign locations even further to maximize efficiency.

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The 5 Things Food Vendors Don't Want You to Know

Embrace the Suck

One thing you have to know up front is that their business is a lot like yours: uber-competitive! Having worked as a consultant for a large foodservice distributor for 4 years, I learned a lot about their business. A lot of stuff they don’t want you to know! They make their money as you do. No, they have two different shifts like you.

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Hiring Restaurant Employees: The CFO’s Role in Developing a Strategy

Restaurant365

The hiring crunch is especially tough for back-of-house employees, such as line cooks and dishwashers, who historically have made lower wages than many front-of-house employees like servers. As CFO, restaurant staffing strategy may not have historically been part of your responsibilities. The high cost of employee turnover.

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Trends and Tactics: How to Navigate the Changing Landscape of the European Restaurant Industry

Apicbase

You can use technology to optimise or automate various tasks , such as inventory management and ordering, which helps reduce errors and increase efficiency. Restaurant tech enables you to collect and analyse data on everything from sales and customer behaviour to inventory levels and food production. There is good and bad news.