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Restaurant Workforce Research: Reflecting on 2024 and Optimizing for 2025

Modern Restaurant Management

After millions left the industry in 2020, restaurants responded by increasing wages and leaning into incentives to attract employees back. To help restaurant operators better understand what employees want and need, close to 1,000 restaurant managers were surveyed regarding compensation, technology use, retention tactics, and more.

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2025 Restaurant Outlook: A Recipe for Success with Risk Management

Modern Restaurant Management

After weathering years of pandemic-related challenges, the sector continues to rebound with optimism. By mid-2024, 82 percent of food and beverage operators were still actively recruiting, with chefs and cooks comprising 30 percent of open roles. In 2023, the average cost of a hospitality-related breach surged 14 percent to $3.36

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Building a Safety-First Culture in Your Restaurant Kitchen

The Rail

Like others, bars and restaurants have to take care of their employees. You can promote better protection for employees and patrons by focusing on your restaurants culture. Over 35% of restaurant owners say training food handler recruits is a major challenge, and its easy to see why. Fewer may realize that theyre connected.

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5 Things to Consider Before Opening a Restaurant in 2025

The Rail

Modern successful restaurants create their branding to support community and purpose, usually related to local collaborations, sustainability, or cultural celebration. Recruiting and keeping seasoned front-of-house and kitchen employees calls for careful handling of leadership, culture, and compensation.

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How Restaurants Can Utilize a Small Business Loan to Fuel Growth

The Rail

Whether for operations expansion, equipment upgrades, staff recruiting, or more marketing activity, growth calls for resources. Hiring and Training Employees for Business Growth Effective scaling of operations calls on a qualified and committed workforce.

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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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[Guide] Restaurant Management Tips & Tactics: 2019 Field Guide

7 Shifts

As a restaurant manager, your job is to juggle several responsibilities—from managing employees and controlling costs to creating staff schedules and boosting revenue. 7 Core Restaurant Management Responsibilities Staffing : Hire, fire, train, and manage employees. But restaurant management is the glue that holds it all together.