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Serve Your Employees with Holistic Well-Being Benefits

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Clear Communication Maintain open and transparent communication channels where employees can freely express concerns or ideas. Encourage open communication about mental health issues and provide training for managers on how to support employees who may be struggling. Encouragetheuse of freefederal andstate programs.

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Pandemic Reflections: What Lessons Has the Restaurant Industry Learned?, Part Two

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Investing in teamwork, internal training, and career development—such as structured in-house wine education—creates a sense of belonging and shared growth. While many companies still don’t offer health insurance, I have a number of clients offering health care through online medical services, such as.

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28 Strategies to Cut Costs in the Restaurant Business

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Examples of fixed costs for a restaurant include rent, insurance, and equipment lease payments. However, finding ways to negotiate lower rent or insurance rates, or to optimize equipment usage can help to reduce fixed costs. On the other hand, variable costs are expenses that change with the level of production or sales.

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How to be a Better Leader: Improve Your Workplace Culture

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Embrace Transparency Stress the importance of open communication among and between teams, especially if you manage people. Open communication leads to effective communication which then leads to an efficient workflow. It is equally important to have a clearly laid out chain of to allow for effective communication.

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Four Things Bar and Restaurant Owners Should Consider in their Coverage 

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With the laundry list of everything bar and restaurant owners need to handle on a daily basis, proper insurance coverage should be top priority. With the guidance of a skilled agent that is well educated in the hospitality industry, bar and restaurant owners should be able to let the experts lead the way.

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Safety Training and a Strong Safety Culture: The Recipe for Mitigating Restaurant Risk

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Safety training and creating a culture of safety are both critical for mitigating these risks, helping restaurants establish environments that protect staff and customers, which also goes a long way toward keeping insurance premiums low and protecting the bottom line.

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The Employment Landscape is Messy: How Restaurants Can Ensure Compliance with Limited Resources

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Wage and hour claims are particularly risky because they almost certainly are not covered by any of your insurance policies and they are often the subject of class actions and representative actions under PAGA, which resulted in nearly $90 million in penalties in 2019 alone. Evaluate employee discipline protocols.