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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. 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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‘Who Watches the Kitchen?’

Modern Restaurant Management

Shaw is a food safety specialist, podcaster, founder of Savvy Food Safety, co-founder of My Trusted Source, and an entrepreneur, author, and speaker who spent 30+ years working in the foodservice industry. Having written over 300 articles for national trade magazines, I am often asked about industry-related topics.

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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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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. 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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A CHEF WHO GETS THE MESSAGE RIGHT

Culinary Cues

Two of the most significant issues facing businesses today are RETAINING good employees who are so difficult to find and MAXIMIZING the productivity and efficiency of those same employees. But, the most effective way to improve this connection with employees is to communicate through storytelling.

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What to Include in Your Restaurant Employee Handbook

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The words ‘employee handbook’ are enough to make any new hire quiver. Having to spend a shift—or even worse, your after-hours—reading through an employee handbook will sap the fun out of any new restaurant job. The introduction to your restaurant employee handbook Think of your employee handbook as a welcome to your restaurant.

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Seven Ways HR Leadership Can Reduce Risk for Restaurants During Turbulent Times

Modern Restaurant Management

A global infectious disease outbreak such as COVID-19 can impact your business in terms of risk to employee safety, loss of sales and economic uncertainty. Your BCP must also address how HR and leadership will handle issues related to the employees and patrons. HR is tasked with more than the safety of employees.