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

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A better description might be a balancing act that presents new and unique challenges every day. Chances are, it's balancing the scheduling requests of dozens of employees each week. Check employee schedules to ensure plans match reality. Managing a restaurant is a delicate routine—if we can even call it a routine.

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CHEFS – WHAT DOES YOUR MENU REPRESENT?

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These aspects include: décor, skill level of staff, style of service, pricing, profit, type of vendors selected, kitchen layout, equipment selection, marketing and advertising, pay scales, dining room seating, type of china, glassware and flatware, even the location and color scheme for the exterior of the restaurant.

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8 Successful Restaurant Concepts & Ideas to Inspire and Guide You

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The way your menu is presented should also reflect your concept. A fine-dining restaurant with an emphasis on ingredients may present the menu simply, with descriptions of where the ingredients are from. These restaurants generally have limited menus, no seating, and fewer (if any) servers compared full-service restaurants.

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Safety First: Welcoming Restaurant Employees Back

Modern Restaurant Management

As the fight against COVID-19 continues, more of those same restaurants have started considering—and even implementing—new plans for welcoming employees and customers back for in-person dining. Unexpected downtime, when paired with a swift return to work, can present new risks to restaurant employees.

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

7 Shifts

A better description might be a balancing act that presents new and unique challenges every day. Chances are, it's balancing the scheduling requests of dozens of employees each week. Check employee schedules to ensure plans match reality. Managing a restaurant is a delicate routine—if we can even call it a routine.

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A COOK WITHOUT A KITCHEN

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The pace is already different, there seems to be little sense of urgency, no panic based on work to be done – the panic is all related to fear of infection. As the server approaches – the guest nervously fumble to put their masks back on- nod when the dinner plates are presented and wait for a moment for the server to leave their safe zone.

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Could the Automat Revival Solve Restaurant Staffing Issues?

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Japan is another nation that embraced restaurant automation early and still does through its conveyor belt sushi lines that deliver small plates of food around to seated customers. Present Staffing Issues at Restaurants. The machine presents a comprehensive menu with the ability to partially customize what customers order.