7 Shifts

JULY 14, 2020

Consider specialty sanitization services In addition to hourly sanitization of all high-contact surfaces (FOH and BOH), ensuring you have access to professional specialty sanitization will provide more confidence and peace of mind to your staff and guests. Small problems can be identified before they become big problems.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Diners simply don’t want the low food quality that often comes with long menus. These restaurant food trends can directly impact a restaurant’s profitability. A short menu can slim down the food costs through streamlined inventory management, as well as reduced food waste.

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Lavu

JUNE 4, 2019

From placing orders to delivering the dishes and processing the bill, each step should be smooth and convenient. When it comes to meal ordering and preparation, kitchen display systems (KDS) are replacing the need for handwritten and verbally communicated tickets in restaurants. This helps reduce human error.

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The Restaurant Group

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Food Cost Management. Not much can spell disaster for a food establishment faster than high or fluctuating food cost. Food cost goals change depending what style of food service you provide; fast food, fast casual, casual dining, or fine dining. This allows you to find the food cost per diner.

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Restaurant365

JUNE 22, 2021

As a restaurant owner or operator, keeping your food costs low is a continual challenge. Food cost is one of the largest expenses for your restaurant, and because it is a controllable cost, you can influence how it impacts your bottom line. The biggest factor in reducing food waste is how invested your store-level managers are.

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Sling

MAY 9, 2023

ADD_THIS_TEXT Restaurant operations (or RO for short) is the collective term for all the activities that go into managing a food-service business — everything from the daily responsibilities that need to be done to the long-term planning that keeps the business on track. Doing so involves more than just the food your diners leave behind.

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Restaurant365

MARCH 25, 2020

” Require that takeout be ordered and paid online. If this process varies from your normal takeout service, hang a sign on your door welcoming customers to order via their phones outside your store so that you don’t lose sales from those customers accustomed to ordering inside and paying in person. Use staff for delivery.

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Lavu

MARCH 13, 2020

If your staff relies on outdated methods of placing orders, it’s likely that restaurant communications are strained, which means your restaurant is operating below its potential. If customers are waiting in line for a table, you can take their drink orders as they wait, and even transfer their tab to their table once seated.

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The Restaurant Times

MARCH 13, 2023

It can also help reduce labor costs and increase the speed of food preparation. It is where food is prepared and stored, and it frequently has additional staff spaces like a break room and a changing area. Window: Windows are where the food disappears to go to the front of the house once it is plated.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Create an outdoor service station and contactless menus, ordering and payments available. Restaurant staff and employees wearing masks and disposable gloves, including FOH (servers, bartenders, cashiers, etc.) The idea here would be to offer a free item with each takeout/delivery order. Marked spaces to eat or drink.

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Outdoor Fine Dining Dine-in FOH 203

Deliverect

AUGUST 20, 2020

Since COVID-19 hit the industry this year, it’s become even more obvious how central food delivery is to restaurant operations. That’s why we’ve put together this guide so you don’t have to waste time searching around for advice. Think about your priorities and where delivery orders fit in. Create an order packing area.

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Mad Mobile

MARCH 1, 2024

From server robots to ordering kiosks in fast food establishments, it seems like there’s always a new gimmick trying to get your attention. But data shows that it’s more than just about the flashy toys. In the first model, customers have access to kiosks or tablets at the table and can place orders and payout at their convenience.

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Apicbase

MARCH 3, 2023

Some technologies integrate with the restaurant’s POS, allowing data to be easily shared between front-of-house (FoH) and back-of-house (BoH) systems. This end-to-end solution uses data from your POS to provide insights into sales, food costs, menu engineering and inventory management. Check out Apicbase’s POS integrations.

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7 Shifts

DECEMBER 18, 2023

With tip payouts, servers share portions of their tips with other staff members, such as bartenders, hosts, and food runners. Kiosk ordering Your busy customers don’t always have time to wait in line. Kiosk ordering tools speed up the ordering process, making it easier to keep up during a mealtime rush.

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Touch Bistro

AUGUST 4, 2021

If, for example, you ask a colleague to broil something, when you actually want it braised, you could end up with costly food waste and unhappy customers. Servers also need to be able to understand how food is prepared and be ready to explain cooking methods, ingredients, and flavors to customers who inquire about menu items.

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7 Shifts

MAY 31, 2021

Inventory was ordered based on par levels, which are set based on sales forecasts, which are in turn determined by how many guests you'll serve and what they'll order. How is the restaurant's budget broken down between key expenses like food costs, labor, and fixed costs? Purchasing & Ordering.

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7 Shifts

DECEMBER 18, 2023

With tip payouts, servers share portions of their tips with other staff members, such as bartenders, hosts, and food runners. Kiosk ordering Your busy customers don’t always have time to wait in line. Kiosk ordering tools speed up the ordering process, making it easier to keep up during a mealtime rush.

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Apicbase

JUNE 16, 2023

The metrics and calculations in this list will help you bring order to the chaos and manage the performance of each unit in the chain. By regularly tracking his inventory and procurement metrics, Fabio was able to reduce his kitchens’ food costs by 18%. It’s money that went straight to his bottom line.

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Apicbase

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Why combining FoH and BoH data makes analytics more powerful Final thoughts. Or that your food cost is 32% in this one outlet and 36% in other nearby outlets. Just because analytics is a higher-order tool than reporting doesn’t mean that the two are not inseparably connected… or that reporting doesn’t have a place in your operation.

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Apicbase

MARCH 28, 2024

Most successful food businesses are now multi-unit and multi-channel. The F&B director works with the order forms, the COO analyses the profit and loss statements, the inventory manager checks the stock counts, the executive chef works in the recipes database and so on. In this post, we’ll help you narrow down the options.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Over the next decade, a generation passionate about health and wellness will demand restaurants be transparent about food from farm to table. Guests will expect to know every aspect of sourcing and meal preparation, which will disrupt traditional back-of-house systems with technology that connects the farm to the food.

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Cheetah

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Front of the House Terms Front of the house (FoH) is literally the front of the restaurant, including the waiting area, the bar, and the dining area. Here are the 8 most commonly used terms in FoH: . In the weeds Like it or not, there comes a point at any service that both the servers and the kitchen are swamped with orders.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Chris Adams, VP of Strategy, Oracle Food & Beverage. As the food and beverage industry continues its digital transformation, restaurateurs need to prepare to take advantage of a tidal wave of data these interactions create. Those that are continuing to prosper had their technological house in order prior to the pandemic.

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Apicbase

APRIL 20, 2022

Guests expect your food to taste the same, no matter which location they visit or order from. So take the time to optimise your workflows, implement solid protocols and map out your food and beverage tech strategy before you start to look for investors. You shouldn’t just focus on the food. The solution.

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EATER

MAY 20, 2020

When the Center eventually released a guide, quietly posting it online without a formal announcement, the document devoted just four pages to food service, placing details in an appendix among other industries. But the industry-spanning collaborative effort may also set the tone for the new normal in food service.

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EATER

MAY 14, 2020

The most comprehensive guide yet comes from the James Beard Foundation and the Food and Society Program at the Aspen Institute, a response to the persistent desire for a single, streamlined playbook. But the industry-spanning collaborative effort may also set the tone for the new normal in food service.

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