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Your 7-Step Guide to Reopening Your Restaurant

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This may mean limiting seating per table or reorganizing your dining area to ensure tables are over 6 feet apart. You may even need to bring on more FOH staff to act as your delivery drivers if you’re offering direct. Social distancing and protective equipment ?? Employee health assessments ???

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As Restaurants Reopen, Many Are Struggling to Find Employees

EATER

And yet more business didn’t translate to more staff: The 200-seat restaurant still employed fewer than half the workers it had before the pandemic. Down in Nashville, Mary Pillow Thompson, the founder of the local restaurant hiring platform Foh&boh, has seen a similar movement. There will be a lot of shifting around,” she says.

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Pandemic Reflections: What Lessons Has the Restaurant Industry Learned?, Part Three

Modern Restaurant Management

From a legal perspective, Insurance : the pandemic highlighted the limitations of insurance policies. Several high-profile restaurant groups brought litigation against insurance companies for their coverage position, but were ultimately unsuccessful.

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Mastering Restaurant Metrics: Your Comprehensive Guide to Business Success 

Apicbase

To calculate labour cost percentage: Labour Cost Percentage = Labour Cost / Sales Pro Tip: To identify what’s affecting your labour costs, divide the staff by FOH (front of house) and BOH (back of house). Revenue Per Seat Hour (RevPASH) This metric measures how much revenue a restaurant generates during each hour that a table is occupied.

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Why 4 Restaurants Opt for a Service Charge Instead of Tips

7 Shifts

Hammel admits that there were rougher moments at the beginning, and transparency was difficult, especially layered on top of other pandemic-era factors like limited seating and vaccination policies. Getting buy-in from FOH staff is crucial, especially servers. How did staff initially react?

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The restaurant industry needs to step up for women. We asked four leaders how to do it.

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And how many of those women work in the FOH rather than the BOH? At Hopdoddy, they use an open kitchen concept so that the FOH and BOH are more integrated. Starbucks provides health insurance for gender-affirming procedures. Chef Dominique Crenn suggests asking about the team's gender equality in exit interviews.

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Why 4 Restaurants Opt for a Service Charge Instead of Tips

7 Shifts

Hammel admits that there were rougher moments at the beginning, and transparency was difficult, especially layered on top of other pandemic-era factors like limited seating and vaccination policies. Getting buy-in from FOH staff is crucial, especially servers. How did staff initially react?