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What is a Restaurant’s Front Of House (FOH) – Everything You Need To Know

The Restaurant Times

Front-of-house (FOH) refers to all activities and settings a patron will experience while dining at a restaurant, including the lobby and dining area. The FOH staff greets and receives customers and relays their requests. The FOH manager supervises all front-of-house staff and reports to the GM. The answer to the FOH manager.

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Restaurant Recruiting During and After COVID-19

7 Shifts

According to data from 350,000+ restaurants that use 7shifts, while overall shifts being scheduled are still sitting 24% below pre-COVID levels, shifts for delivery-related roles have increased 38%. It’s important for restaurant hiring and training processes to reflect new COVID-19 safety measures. What PPE will you provide?

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Employee Engagement Best Practices for Restaurants

7 Shifts

The people you hire to run your restaurant can make or break the business. Much like profit and loss, employee engagement is a metric that every restaurateur should be tracking regularly. Why Care About Employee Engagement? So what’s the big deal about employee engagement? First things first: what is it?

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How to Onboard Restaurant Staff: A New Hire Checklist for Restaurant Employees

Touch Bistro

A new hire checklist for restaurant employees can make the onboarding process easy and painless for all parties involved. Why reinvent the wheel every time a new hire joins your team when you can formalize the process? What Is Restaurant Employee Onboarding? Get Your Employee Handbook Template. Let’s get started!

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Balancing Restaurant Labor Cost with Employee Satisfaction

Restaurant365

According to the National Restaurant Association, hourly wages for restaurant employees grew by 12.1% Driven by the hiring crisis, many restaurant groups are trying to woo employees with higher wages and benefits for hourly employees – both mostly unheard of prior to the pandemic. Mix full-time & part-time employees.

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Restaurant Labor Cost Control: 11 Reports to Optimize Labor

Restaurant365

How to manage labor cost is a challenge that all restaurant operators face daily as many restaurant businesses are forced to offer more competitive wages, benefits to hourly employees and other concessions to attract more employees from the shrinking applicant pool. Total Labor Cost. Labor Cost Percentage. This is your labor variance.

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Restaurants Beat Labor Crisis with Daring New Wage Structure

Cheetah

In April alone, restaurants lost 681,000 workers to attrition, and while the hotel and restaurant segments are hiring in the hundreds of thousands, the turnover rate is still at an all time high. Few establishments are now considering raising wages, offering employee benefits or improving the working conditions.

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