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Delivery Dominance Starts with a Few Simple Questions

Modern Restaurant Management

As consumers expect more convenient ways to get their favorite meals – even more so than ever before amidst the pandemic – adding delivery has enabled restaurants to meet those demands and grow digital sales. In fact, delivery has become mission critical. Launching and scaling delivery involves a lot of moving parts.

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The Topic Is Tipping

Modern Restaurant Management

Guests are dining out more often than last year and and rewarding great service, with the highest tips at bars and fine dining restaurants, according to hospitality industry data from Lightspeed Commerce Inc. Takeout tips are down : Tips for online orders and delivery dipped slightly, falling from 8.83 percent to 8.07 percent average.

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COVID-19 Best Practices for Restaurants: Navigating Coronavirus for Staff & Managers

7 Shifts

With new social distancing and self-isolation strategies, it’s clear that COVID-19 will have, and is having, an extreme impact on the restaurant and hospitality industry. Employees do not require a doctor’s note. Focus on other channels like third-party delivery. Offer discounts on delivery/takeout.

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A Guide to the Role of a Restaurant Manager: Duties, Daily Routine, and Essential Skills

7 Shifts

Chances are, it's balancing the scheduling requests of dozens of employees each week. Deliveries, payroll, paying vendor invoices, and so on all happen on their own cadence. Oversee incoming deliveries. Check employee schedules to ensure plans match reality. Stock incoming inventory. Check inventory levels.

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The Delivery Apps Prevailed

EATER

The big thing to know in food-related election news is California voters gave ride hailing-cum-food delivery services a boost by passing Proposition 22 , a measure that exempts them from treating contract workers like employees, even though a great many of them do the work. of employees. And this week on the podcast (!)

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THE TERRITORY AHEAD FOR CHEFS

Culinary Cues

So, here is what we know and what we must learn to work with: [] COVID PROTOCOLS WILL LIKELY BE WITH US FOR SOME TIME: You’re tired of it, your employees are tired of it, and your customers are tired of, but it is the second-best tool in your toy chest (next to the vaccine) to help keep this pandemic under control and keep everyone safe.

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Food, Hospitality & Wellness ‘Places’ Transcending the Resources & Mining Village Work-Life Experience

Future Food

Food, Hospitality & Wellness ‘Places’ Transcending the Resources & Mining Village Work-Life Experience. Source: www.food-management.com. Source: Future Food. Health and safety are paramount in mining and resources sector but as with society in general, personnel ‘wellness’ has not always been at the forefront of consideration.