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Essential FOH Restaurant KPIs That Increase Profitability, Part 1

Restaurant365

You can use data to improve restaurant operations, both in your front of house (FOH) and back of house (BOH). Tracking key FOH metrics can help provide a path to healthy revenue levels. Optimizing your BOH and FOH metrics boosts the efficiency of your labor and food spending. So, what data should you be tracking around your FOH?

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How to Plan Your Restaurant's Grand Re-Opening Event

7 Shifts

A seating capacity goal (such as 100% of the allowed seating capacity) or a reservation booking goal A revenue goal—such as a volume number or percentage compared to pre-COVID A follower goal on social media from gaining new interest in your restaurant A return visit goal for diners who return to your restaurant after the grand opening 2.

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Five Benefits of Outsourcing Your Restaurant’s Digital Marketing Efforts

Modern Restaurant Management

Day-to-day demands – coupled with all of the FOH and BOH duties – can be simply too overwhelming for many small restaurant owners. Establishing, monitoring, posting, and maintaining social media accounts such as Instagram and Facebook. Paid social media advertising that directly targets your local audience.

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Restaurant Management Software: A Comprehensive Roundup

Aaron Allen & Associates

We’ll explore software for inventory management, restaurant payment and billing, food delivery, dashboards, restaurant onboarding, reservation management, and ERP systems. The best systems have the ability to display recipes one-click-away, monitor cooking times, and alert the FOH when the meal is ready.

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Best Practices for Outdoor Dining All Year Long

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurant staff and employees wearing masks and disposable gloves, including FOH (servers, bartenders, cashiers, etc.) This information should be communicated when the guest makes their reservation. Make it look great, take great photos and push it hard on social media! Marked spaces to eat or drink.

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MRM at Five: What Issues Have Impacted Restaurants?

Modern Restaurant Management

In terms of operation, we are constantly discussing social media, both in good ways and bad. Social media has taken on a major role. According to a recent survey by MGHUS , 77 percent of diners visit a restaurant's website or social media before they choose to dine somewhere.

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14 Restaurant Management Tools to Make your Business More Efficient

7 Shifts

These kiosks not only created a positive customer service environment but also helped the chain navigate FOH labor shortages in recent years. Reservation tracking If your restaurant accepts reservations, you’ll need a tracking tool to manage them. Reservation-tracking tools allow customers to make and edit reservations online.