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Nine Critical HR and Payroll Steps to Prepare Your Restaurant for 2025

Modern Restaurant Management

Update Your Employee Handbook Your employee handbook sets the tone for your culture by establishing expectations and aligning your team toward a common goal and vision. Bonus Tip : Create a simple FAQ document to address common employee questions about coverage options.

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Boost Your Restaurant Business with Five Local Marketing Tips

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurants were harder hit than most because many food related businesses weren’t ready to transition to digital services. Enforce face-mask wearing for both employees and customers. You can also expect fresher and higher quality merchandise because the food won’t have to stay in transit for long.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-April 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Transparency into work environment precautions – Many restaurants and stores are publishing the precautions they are taking to ensure the safety of customers and employees. The top factor influencing the choice to buy alcoholic drinks with take out/delivery relates to ease and safety. Gift Card Sales Boom. 6 preferred brand.”

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How to Open a Coffee Shop: The Ultimate Guide

7 Shifts

List all employees and partners. If you're serving food at your coffee shop, your employees should complete a food handler's course. In 1992, the Department of Justice passed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to ensure that employees and customers with disabilities have the same access to basic services as other people.

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How to Handle Temporary Restaurant Closure during COVID-19

7 Shifts

Consider things like merchandise sales, inventory sales, or private cooking lessons. Can you give dine-in related employees other tasks to do that will benefit your business and ensure that they don’t lose their income? Have staff help redesign your menu, create an employee engagement program, make training videos, etc.

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[Case Study] How Shawn & Ed Brewing Simplified Scheduling and Event Management

7 Shifts

Shawn & Ed adopted 7shifts’ for the easy-to-use mobile apps to empower employees with the ability to submit time-off and availability, easily swap shifts with coworkers, and chat with their team from their phone. With managers and coworkers only a click away, employees were always engaged and informed about the goings-on in the brewery.

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Coffee News Recap, 16 Sep: Brazilian coffee export revenue up by 61.4% in 2022, EU votes in favour of anti-deforestation law & other stories

Perfect Daily Grind

Following the restoration of Saudi Arabia-Thailand relations, Café Amazon opened its first store in Riyadh’s InterHealth Hospital. The majority of employees at the company’s 17 Kentucky locations voted in favour of unionisation. Thai coffee chain Café Amazon opens first location in the Middle East. Thu, 15 Sep.

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