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How NYC Restaurants Can Thrive Through the Winter

7 Shifts

When it comes to making it through the winter, the health of your staff and guests is item number one. Keeping your staff and your guests safe and healthy is the most essential thing we can do. Accept and Approve time-off requests for sick employees, and make sure you give ample time off for recovery.

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Is More Delivery/Takeout on Your Menu? Remove Food Safety Risks—Digitally

Modern Restaurant Management

As other restaurant operators emerge from the worst of the pandemic, amp up their takeout and delivery businesses, and participate in ghost kitchens, they may want to borrow a page from this company’s playbook. Because of the alerts, the restaurants were able to address the problems in time to keep takeout and delivery customers safe.

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Designing A Fail-Proof Restaurant Survival Plan For Omicron And Beyond

The Restaurant Times

Takeout and delivery are insufficient. In the recovery stage, your key efforts ought to include modifying operational processes, reactivating consumers to bring them back into restaurant dining rooms, adjusting menus to suit shifts in customer habits and preferences, and expanding your delivery capabilities. Source: CNBC.

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Secure Safer Off-Premise Dining

Modern Restaurant Management

According to NPD Group data, takeout and delivery orders have increased dramatically, with takeout jumping from 18 percent to 60 percent within the FSR segment from 2019 to 2020. the pandemic only accelerated the growing trend toward takeout and delivery. In the U.S.,

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OUR DAILY BREATH: IDEATION AND SCENARIO PLANNING

Culinary Cues

Possible strategy: Be proactive with a well defined, enhanced sanitation and food handling protocol for your restaurant and relay this information to your guests. Possible strategy: As restaurants experiment with take-out and delivery options to try and stay afloat – keep in mind that this may very well be your future.

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Restaurant Hiring: Navigating the Labor Shortage

7 Shifts

Now as we enter a recovery stage, the biggest challenge that's emerged has become finding enough staff to fit the demand. The past year has turned servers into expert delivery packers, challenge chefs' creativity, and flipped the role of a restaurant manager on its head. Restaurants are employing more delivery drivers than ever.

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After a Year of COVID-19, Restaurants Are Ready for a Reboot

Modern Restaurant Management

However, the post-pandemic industry will face new challenges even as recovery begins. Many restaurants took guests’ temperatures and participated in contact tracing, which is the process of contacting people who’ve had contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19. For customers, it became a new experience.