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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. Restart your POS subscription Reactivate your 7shifts account Reactivate your payroll system Reactivate your guest management or reservation systems Reactivate your music system 4. Employee health assessments ???

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How to Drastically Cut Expenses in Your Restaurant (and Stay Profitable During COVID-19)

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By now, many states and provinces have either mandated reductions in seating or the closure of dining areas, with most restaurants turning to takeout and delivery. Download all the data from your restaurant POS or back-office management platform to get a sense of how your restaurant is operating today.

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9 Top Restaurant Technologies To Evolve Your Business

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The first technologies that restaurants often invest in are cloud-based point of sale (POS) systems and payroll processing. A wide-ranging industry report from Toast included a section on restaurant technology trends, noting that 82% of restaurants were using a POS, followed by 56% using payroll software. is possible with a great POS.

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How to Create an Effective Restaurant Onboarding Process

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Admin: Filling out employment paperwork and receiving access to tools like the employee timekeeping portal, employee email, POS, and security system. Run through difficult customer situations with new front-of-house (FOH) staff to ensure they won’t crack under pressure. Learning general guidelines and procedures.

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How The Snug Took Control of Labor and Evolved Their Restaurant

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So we took over five of the parking spaces along our restaurant, which basically provides somewhere between 80 and 100 seats, which is technically more than we had inside prior to COVID. We’re investing a lot in our outdoor seating because our whole unique selling point has always been our vibe and our cocktails and the design of the place.

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Restaurant Operations Overview: What You Need to Know

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For prep, cooks would restock their work stations and FOH staff might prep tables and utensils for the first dinner guests. What about when the server enters the wrong order in the POS and doesn't realize it until they get to the table? If so, the server takes it and sends it to the kitchen ASAP by entering it into the POS.

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7 Proven Ways to Raise Table Turnover Rate

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From seating diners and helping them order quickly to processing payments, let’s explore some proven ways to improve your restaurant’s table turnover rate. Suppose your restaurant has 20 tables, and during the dinner service from 6 PM to 9 PM, you seated 60 customers.