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How to Increase Employee Productivity

7 Shifts

Customers on average will order more menu items, resulting in a larger bill for the restaurant and a larger tip for the employee. With the slim margins, there is tremendous pressure to pour through each of your supplier’s catalogues in an attempt to alter your menu items to make sure you don’t order when prices are high.

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How to Manage Restaurant Staff Effectively: 5 Game-Changing Tips

Lavu

Then occasionally fit in longer team activities like a paper napkin airplane contest, new dish contest, or search online for a great number of free or low-cost activities. When going through employee sales data, be sure to focus on ticket size, tip size, number of discounts and cancelled orders.

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Qu’s Winter Product Release Highlights

Qu

Qu’s Winter Product Highlights offer diverse ordering options that bridge the physical and digital divide, including smarter drive-thru ordering, expanded online ordering (with curbside and tableside options), and more personalized kiosk ordering.

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Restaurant Trends for 2020 (and Beyond)

Modern Restaurant Management

Online ordering, curbside to-go, self-ordering kiosks, and third-party delivery services dominated the restaurant landscape; these trends were so predominant that you'd now be hard-pressed to find a restaurant that doesn't offer at least one of these services. Will demand for convenient ordering options continue to grow?

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Where Safety Meets Satisfaction — Tips For COVID-Era Restaurateurs to Elevate Their Customer Offerings

Modern Restaurant Management

Employees should be coached on how to establish connections, which can be difficult through masks and distance. Restaurants can continue to foster the aura of personal service and exclusivity by using online booking services and offering phone reservations.

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What Restaurant Leaders Need to Know About Their Non-Desk Workers 

Modern Restaurant Management

While many restaurant executives work from an office setting, most of their employees are on the ground floor, bussing tables, taking orders or preparing food. It’s not just your customers who are online, it’s your employees too. Your workers want feel valued and engaged.

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PPP Part Two and More News Restaurants Need to Know Now

Modern Restaurant Management

Where take-out and delivery orders previously made up 15% of their business, they have had to quickly morph their business model to accommodate 100 percent of business via take-out and delivery, in the midst of an economic downturn. Support for no-contact doorstep delivery and minimal-exposure pickup options.