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How to Create an Effective Restaurant Onboarding Process

7 Shifts

Here’s an example of an onboarding overview: Day One Orientation: Learning about the restaurant’s culture and history, meeting coworkers, and receiving a uniform. What to include in your restaurant onboarding process. What documentation to give out and collect during onboarding. What is employee onboarding?

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What to wear to a restaurant job interview and how to prepare

Open for Business

Office setting, front of house, or back of house? Front of House People interviewing for front-of-house roles know they will be representing the restaurant and iterating with guests. Getting dressed is certainly an important part of the process, but it’s only one part of the preparations.

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Employee Engagement Best Practices for Restaurants

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What is the key to success in the restaurant industry? While a delicious menu and an inviting ambiance are critical components of a restaurant’s success, staff are the lifeblood of a restaurant. The people you hire to run your restaurant can make or break the business. Why Care About Employee Engagement? First things first: what is it?

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Restaurants Beat Labor Crisis with Daring New Wage Structure

Cheetah

Increasing wages, gradually introducing automatic gratuity, sharing the tip pool with back-of-the-house (BOH) employees, improving the working conditions, investing in cross-training, and reducing staff are all good solutions. The labor shortage has brought with it a sense of reckoning. It takes a lot of guts to fight for change.

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How to Onboard Restaurant Staff: A New Hire Checklist for Restaurant Employees

Touch Bistro

Go over important topics like: Job responsibilities COVID-19 safety procedures Hygiene Uniform Systems and tech Attendance Customer service Security – including your restaurant loss prevention strategy Opening and closing shift procedures. Let’s get started! What Is Restaurant Employee Onboarding? Get Your Employee Handbook Template.

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A Guide to All the Restaurant Safety Guides

EATER

The groups behind Safety First plan to release more front of house guidance soon. In the meantime, the NRA and others already offer guidance on FOH logistics like food running, customer management, bathroom safety, and customer takeout. There are also plans for versions in Spanish and Mandarin. Update: May 20, 2020, 11:07 a.m.:

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A Guide to All the Restaurant Safety Guides

EATER

The groups behind Safety First plan to release more front of house guidance soon. In the meantime, the NRA and others already offer guidance on FOH logistics like food running, customer management, bathroom safety, and customer takeout. There are also plans for versions in Spanish and Mandarin.