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Safety Training and a Strong Safety Culture: The Recipe for Mitigating Restaurant Risk

Modern Restaurant Management

As the focus for restaurants continues to center on growing and staffing up, safety training can sometimes get lost in the mix or ratcheted down to cover only topics related to compliance with regulations. That won’t cut it in an industry that faces major risks associated with employee injuries and food safety.

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

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Chances are, it's balancing the scheduling requests of dozens of employees each week. Check employee schedules to ensure plans match reality. Toast performed extensive research among non-managerial restaurant employees with surprising results. A fairly typical day might look something like this: Check the logbook.

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Employee Engagement Best Practices for Restaurants

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Much like profit and loss, employee engagement is a metric that every restaurateur should be tracking regularly. We’re giving you the scoop on why you should care about employee engagement and how you can track it, and sharing tips for how to use this data to gamify staff performance and boost engagement.

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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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Managing Risk: Prevent Foodborne Illness, Protect Your Restaurant

Modern Restaurant Management

Make sure your employees understand when to wash their hands as well as appropriate times to use (and change) gloves. Educate your diners. Obviously, you can’t serve a piece of undercooked poultry to a diner and expect to avoid trouble. Your workers will take short cuts. coli and salmonella. Clean, sanitize and disinfect.

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Could the Automat Revival Solve Restaurant Staffing Issues?

Modern Restaurant Management

The 1950s saw the birth of the first idealized vending machine , an enormous construction made of metal and glass that served thousands of city-dwellers each day and night. The machine served sandwiches, wine, and coffee, and was considered a great success. No waiters, just steaming plates and a glass door that's opened by a coin.

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BUILDING A RESTAURANT FAMILY

Culinary Cues

If the family were defined as a team, it would be the kitchen that served as the locker room and the playing field. We work hard, very hard physically, mentally, and even emotionally through the process of preparing and serving delicious food. MAKE IT EDUCATIONAL. FOOD and WINE CENTERPIECE OF CONVERSATION.