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

7 Shifts

Inventory management Managers need to ensure the kitchen is stocked with the right amount of food so that nothing is wasted and as few items need to be 86'ed as possible. Managing a restaurant is a delicate routine—if we can even call it a routine. This wide-ranging responsibility is a lot, and it often leads to burnout.

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THE VALUE OF THE SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS

Culinary Cues

Kitchens are great equalizers – it is the place where individual talent and exceptional intellect can be less important that dependability, organization, focus, and teamwork. In the end, from my perspective, the ones who exceed their own and other’s expectations are the ones that find strength in the school of hard knocks.

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

7 Shifts

Inventory management Managers need to ensure the kitchen is stocked with the right amount of food so that nothing is wasted and as few items need to be 86'ed as possible. Managing a restaurant is a delicate routine—if we can even call it a routine. This wide-ranging responsibility is a lot, and it often leads to burnout.

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Questions in the Minds of Restaurant Job Applicants

Ken Burgin

Applicants may wonder about the restaurant’s culinary direction, commitment to sustainability, sourcing ingredients, and how innovation is balanced with tradition in the kitchen. What is the kitchen’s work culture like? How are creativity and input from the kitchen staff valued?

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Cleanliness and Hygiene: The Perfect Pairing for Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

With this expected influx on the horizon, it’s important that your restaurant takes stock of proper cleaning and hygiene measures for key front-of-house (FOH) and back-of-house (BOH) areas. Guests often don’t know what occurs in restaurant kitchens due to their closed-off designs. Opt for paper towels.

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Restaurant cleanliness: Importance of cleaning & sanitation in food industry

Clover - Restaurants

City and state health departments monitor local restaurants to ensure they’re following food safety management program guidelines. Additionally, in order for restaurant leaders to operate as a certified safe food handler , such as managers and chefs, they must pass assessments related to food safety and risks like foodborne illnesses.

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Lessening Employee Anxiety as Restaurant Doors Open

Modern Restaurant Management

Rick Camac, Dean of Restaurant & Hospitality Management at the Institute of Culinary Education. For FOH: Assure front of house staff that you are complying with or exceeding all regulatory local, state and federal rules and regulations. Kitchens must be sanitized, per recommended guidelines. Even though they have ?less

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