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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. Ideally, operators want new employees to be deployed in 12 days , while 55% of restaurant employees admitted they want shorter training periods that take only one to two weeks.

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Restaurant Accounting Tips Made Simple: Expert Ways to Boost Profits in 2025

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You may feel that they are pulling you away from where the real action is, out front and in the kitchen. It allows you to document all financial transactions of your business and determine its performance. Take time to learn about your local tip credit rules and incorporate them when calculating your labor costs.

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Four Ways to Streamline Reopening Procedures for Restaurants

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” Restaurant managers who develop clearly-documented policies, operational checklists, and clear communication systems can simplify the process for everyone. All of these policies should be clearly documented, and all employees should be required to read and sign-off on them. Employee well-being. Customer well-being.

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MRM EXCLUSIVE: Creating a Culture of Cleanliness 

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There are several considerations that owners and managers must take when establishing new cleaning procedures, including: Frequency – Enhanced cleaning and disinfection, in both front-of-house (FOH) and back-of-house (BOH) areas, will reduce the spread of potentially harmful germs throughout the restaurant.

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How to Create an Effective Restaurant Onboarding Process

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What documentation to give out and collect during onboarding. Give them an overview of what they will learn and do during onboarding, and how long the process will take. Admin: Filling out employment paperwork and receiving access to tools like the employee timekeeping portal, employee email, POS, and security system.

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Restaurant Operations Overview: What You Need to Know

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Some tools that help out in this area include restaurant accounting software, as well as processes that restrict profit loss like portion control and employee scheduling software that promotes time clocking integrity. For prep, cooks would restock their work stations and FOH staff might prep tables and utensils for the first dinner guests.

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14 Restaurant Management Tools to Make your Business More Efficient

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There’s always something else to get done, a new fire to put out, and broken things to fix. Manager log books Even if it’s just a shared cloud document, you need a centralized place for your managers to exchange information. With time-clocking software, employees clock in and out with the touch of a button.