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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. Hence, your restaurant’s front-of-the-house staff members should always maintain a high standard of personal hygiene and present a polished, welcoming image.

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12 Restaurant Lunch Specials: Make Lunch the Most Important Meal of the Day ???

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Get ahead of it with our 12 favorite restaurant lunch special ideas for you to feature. Get ahead of it with our 12 favorite restaurant lunch special ideas for you to feature. Why you should invest in restaurant lunch specials Increasing lunch sales is a no-brainer in the restaurant business. is a common one.)

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THE KING IS IN THE HOUSE

Culinary Cues

Outside people went about their day, never giving mind to the effort, dichotomy of characters, hustle, stress, and complexity of what takes place in the “back of the house” at a twelve hundred room hotel. Chefs are often nostalgic. So here is an example of a story build mostly on fact with I’m sure a touch of embellishment over the years.

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BEFORE THE DINING EXPERIENCE TRY THE KITCHEN EXPERIENCE

Culinary Cues

Guests will return when the effort expended to create memorable complete dining experiences is front and center. What we seem to forget sometimes is that those memorable experiences are due to a collective effort of every person involved in creating a dining event.

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7 Restaurant Employee Contest Ideas to Boost Sales and Engagement

7 Shifts

If your restaurant is counter service, have an email list signup sheet where your team can encourage them to sign up for the list to get updates about the business and first dibs at any special promos you may have in the pipeline. Engaged employees are also less likely to turnover. for some of their favorites.

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How to Improve Team Communication with Restaurant Staff and Management

7 Shifts

Maybe one of your servers just called in sick at the last minute, your shipment of inventory containing all the ingredients for tonight's dinner special never showed up or the plumbing is acting up again. At times, it's a civil war between your front-of-house and back-of-house teams. Table of Contents. Field questions.

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A DECEMBER KITCHEN

Culinary Cues

Before I can turn on the computer, Emmett has my usual breakfast in front of me: eggs over easy, bacon, home fries, and a side of salsa. A light day in terms of events, but the restaurant is capped on reservations. The hotel restaurant doesn’t serve lunch (except for special events) which gives us a chance to catch our breath.