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The Five Best Text Communication Practices for Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurants can minimize close contact by texting alerts when reservations and takeout orders are available, keeping people from clustering together at entrances or pickup counters. Like any type of marketing communication where you want customers to take action, it’s a best practice to send a follow-up. Never Miss an Order.

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How To Create a Fair Holiday Work Schedule For Restaurants

7 Shifts

That's where proper holiday work scheduling comes into play — and with the right combination of tools, organization, and communication, restaurants and their teams will soar through the holiday season with more ease than Santa on his sleigh. For some, overtime is an unavoidable expense in order to keep the restaurant running.

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How to Manage Multiple Restaurants and Locations

7 Shifts

You won't be able to refer to your previous restaurant opening playbook and follow it to the letter. The benefits of this decision include relying on a proven business model, which will ease the opening and operating process, as you'll be able to refer to what worked (and what is working) at your original location. Supplier Sourcing.

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How to Create a Restaurant Staff Training Manual

7 Shifts

In order to help new staff learn the ropes, you need to create a comprehensive restaurant staff training manual. It will be everyone’s (new and existing employees) guide for instructions, processes and all the answers to common questions, while being a great reference point to ensure staff feel engaged and supported.

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WE EAT WHAT WE ARE AND WE ARE WHAT WE EAT

Culinary Cues

I had the pleasure of communicating with Dr. Deborah Kennedy, the CEO of Culinary Rehab – an organization focused on teaching kitchens and nutrition programs to change the health of populations. The result is a modular textbook reference for all who can become a change advocate – a culinary coach. She holds a PhD.

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How Beechwood Doughnuts Streamlined Their Operations to Make 10,000+ Doughnuts A Week

7 Shifts

Communicating the new schedules was another logistical nightmare. By transitioning to digital schedule-making and communication with 7shifts, Book only spends minutes per week creating and communicating schedules with her staff—saving 5 hours in total compared to life before 7shifts. was a pain.

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How to Create an Effective Restaurant Onboarding Process

7 Shifts

In order for new hires to perform well and stay happy in their roles, hiring managers need to pay more attention to the restaurant onboarding process. Give out hard copies and make digital copies accessible on a cloud storage system so that staff can easily reference them. Be thorough in your communication.

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