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Restaurant Staff Training 101

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Front-of-house (FOH) staff, like servers and hosts, will need customer service training, upselling techniques, and communication skills. Back-of-house (BOH) staff, including chefs and kitchen assistants, will focus more on food safety, food handling, and kitchen equipment use.

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Restaurant Operations Management: A Guide for Restaurant Owners

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Kitchen and Food Efficiency A well-run kitchen keeps food quality high and service times fast. Standardized recipes, efficient prep work, and strong communication between back-of-house and front-of-house teams prevent bottlenecks. Improve workplace culture with fair scheduling, competitive pay, and open communication.

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The Best Restaurant Technology Of 2025

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Too many missed reservations? A smart reservation and waitlist system can help. For example: If you want to improve efficiency look for software that integrates with your POS and kitchen systems. With smart tools, kitchens are more efficient, consistent, and cost-effective, reducing miscommunication, delays, and food waste.

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Restaurant Management Training Guide

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Focus your restaurant manager training on these key leadership abilities: Communication Practice delivering feedback and handling tough conversations. For instance, set up a mock kitchen line and have managers work together to prepare and plate a multi-course meal within a tight timeframe, encouraging communication and quick thinking.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

The focus now is finding the minimum necessary seating capacity while maximizing kitchen efficiency and service throughput. Instead of simply trying to fit as many seats as possible into a space, the focus now is finding the minimum necessary seating capacity while maximizing kitchen efficiency and service throughput.

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The New Normal: How Technology Can Help Streamline Restaurant Operations

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Kitchen operations. Reservation processing. Food safety and restaurant cleanliness. Technology also helps bridge communication between restaurant management and staff. Having a retail management tool with a mobile application, for instance, reduces the need for wait staff to move around when communicating with each other.

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How to Make Your Guests Feel Safe and Get them Back in the Door

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Restaurants bring groups of people and that traffic often brings safety. Restaurants must build trust, communicate safety and clearly establish value. While the operational and financial impact of social distancing must be top of mind, nearly as important as what you do will be how you communicate these changes to your guests.