Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Restaurants are no longer just about the food – they are about the complete dining experience, which includes ambiance, service speed, and personalized interaction. This efficiency level reduces waste, saves time, and ensures a high standard of food quality.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 11, 2021

This guide includes ideas and checklists for everything from keeping your staff healthy to optimizing your ordering platforms. Order Cleaning Supplies such as disinfectant, paper products, mop heads, and floor cleaner The staff at Ruby's Cafe in New York City, a 7shifts' customer Optimize Your Labor ?? Winterize Your Patio Seating ??

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Apicbase

MARCH 28, 2024

Restaurant back-of-house operations form the backbone of a restaurant’s success. The back-of-house (or BOH) manages crucial elements that impact cost control and profitability. These include food production and inventory management. Additionally, the BOH handles food safety and restaurant administration. Food safety.

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7 Shifts

MARCH 18, 2021

In order to support the restaurant industry through uncharted waters, our team at 7shifts has worked together to derive important labor trends and insights from our network of restaurant pros. Breweries and Taprooms were close to pre-pandemic levels by the end of summer—dude to to-go cans and outdoor seating.

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7 Shifts

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The Snug is a bar-forward restaurant in San Francisco serving modern California comfort food, cocktails & craft beer offered in chic, comfortable quarters. Outdoor dining One way they evolved their operations was by taking advantage of San Francisco’s new shared spaces program to extend their dining outdoors in order to keep revenue up.

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Culinary Cues

JULY 12, 2020

It is an uneasy feeling that was pronounced as those cooks who were already at work – looked cautiously at their teammate, nodded, and turned their heads back to the work in front of them. The kitchen lights are back on, deliveries arrive, the battery of ranges is fired up, and cooks (some of us) are welcomed back.

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Open for Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Streamline the front of house. Run a smooth back of house. Streamline the front of house. Keeping front-of-house activities humming like a well-oiled machine is important for every restaurant. Keeping front-of-house activities humming like a well-oiled machine is important for every restaurant.

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QSR Automations

APRIL 17, 2024

In today’s dining landscape, it’s not just about serving great food; it’s about creating memorable experiences for guests. But here’s where it gets exciting: ConnectSmart® Kitchen doesn’t just receive orders; it prioritizes them intelligently.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 10, 2021

In the past, kitchens worked by a paper ticket system, which was handwritten by the waitstaff and passed to the back-of-house (BOH) staff. Order Views – This is how your BOH staff actually sees the information. Meal Coursing – A feature that ensures that all the orders on a guest ticket come out simultaneously.

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Management Management BOH Front of House 185

7 Shifts

JANUARY 31, 2024

Inventory management Managers need to ensure the kitchen is stocked with the right amount of food so that nothing is wasted and as few items need to be 86'ed as possible. Managing a restaurant is a delicate routine—if we can even call it a routine. This wide-ranging responsibility is a lot, and it often leads to burnout.

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Restaurant Clicks

JUNE 30, 2021

Chinese food is one of those amazing meals that’s perfect for going out to eat but is also just as enjoyable to order in when you just want to stay at home or just don’t feel like cooking anything, and trust us, we know that feeling. Best Chinese Food Restaurants in Fort Lauderdale. Order Online.

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7 Shifts

MAY 15, 2023

When the pandemic forced restaurant shutdowns, Huang turned his uncle's Fresh Meadows restaurant, Peking House, into a fried chicken popup, also called Pecking House, albeit with a spelling variation. He joined us on the Pre-Shift Podcast to tell us about his new restaurant, paying fair wages, and how he feels about tipping.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 18, 2020

US Foods Holding Corp. launched its COVID-19 online operator resource, the US Foods Restaurant Reopening Blueprint. The Restaurant Reopening Blueprint is informed by interviews with key stakeholders such as diners, restaurant staff and US Foods consultants and chefs. Click here to view the application and instructions.

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Front of House Back of House Online Ordering Kitchen Safety 204

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 11, 2024

For front of house workers set goals on the number of turnovers of tables or good reviews. For back of house set goals on the time it takes to get food to the pass and out to customers. If food is not being prepared correctly, speak to the cooks. Showing appreciation to your staff always helps boost morale.

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Sling

MAY 13, 2023

Whether you’re looking to hire employees for a fine dining establishment, a food truck, or a fast food business, you’ll need any number of restaurant positions to make up the foundation of your team. A fine dining establishment may need all 24 positions on this list, while a food truck may only need three or four.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 19, 2020

Over the past few weeks, we have met with clients, attended roundtables, observed trends and polls, and have kept our creativity flowing, to develop design solutions to help sustain our food and beverage industry partners through COVID-19 and beyond. Cleanliness Is Front and Center. Redefining that experience will be important.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 26, 2022

Well, you have all heard the statistics about success and failure when food and beverage are involved, so I won’t repeat them. You are not alone if the thought of putting your name on a restaurant awning has crossed your mind. One of the most tempting forays into entrepreneurship is the restaurant business. How hard can it be – right?

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Front-of-House. Henry is ready to order some dinner. He visits your restaurant’s app and orders his favorite dish on the menu. He visits your restaurant’s app and orders his favorite dish on the menu. He receives an estimated wait time for his order of 45 minutes. Contactless Technology.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Some trending concepts over the past several years have included more open seating, high ceilings, and exposed structure concepts. In addition, the open and visible cook line kitchens are a new age design so that the patrons can see the preparation of food and the cooking process. Getting Creative with Outdoor Space.

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Squirrel Systems

APRIL 11, 2024

This piece looks at the role tableside ordering technology, like mobile POS systems, can play in adding efficiencies to the overall restaurant and specifically to restaurant patio operations. For many, dining at restaurants in the summer has a special charm, as one of the only times in a year we get to dine outdoors.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 13, 2020

Rakuten Ready surveyed more than 100 customers to measure how behaviors around dining have, or are anticipated to change around the perceptions and impact of COVID-19 on restaurants, food delivery and order for pickup. "The desire for convenience has always been present, coupled with an equally strong desire for delicious food.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

With many restaurants closed for in-person dining on and off throughout the pandemic, the food service industry shifted to delivery and takeout as a business imperative. According to SEC filings, food delivery apps experienced tremendous growth in 2020 earning a combined $5.5 billion from the same period in 2019.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Restaurants will continue to embrace digital on-premise, including mobile ordering and payment at the table, to streamline operations and improve the guest experience. Restaurants will continue to embrace digital on-premise, including mobile ordering and payment at the table, to streamline operations and improve the guest experience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 20, 2021

Despite facing the pressure to stay open and operational over the last year, restaurants have gone above and beyond the “new normal” to rethink their operations, including seating arrangements and menu offerings, and in many cases reducing their staff to just the barebones. Roles shifted too. But this is slowly starting to change.

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Society Insurance

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

To expedite the process of wrapping up for the night, restaurant and bar owners can turn to a closing checklist that outlines tasks to be completed by front-of-house staff, back-of-house staff, and management. Tasks for Back-of-House Staff: Cleaning and sanitizing food prep areas and work surfaces.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

To a kitchen team it is all about the basics – efficiency, great tasting and looking food, a clean operation, meeting the timing demands of orders, clearing the board of orders, no re-fires, no injuries, and happy guests sending back empty plates. The fact is, we can’t go back, but we can look forward.

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Lavu

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics July 2023 Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary , the number of job openings in the food services and drinking places industry was 1.9 This means that there were 600,000 more job openings than hires in the food services and drinking places industry in July 2023.

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Open for Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

With the best reservation software, restaurants can control the pacing from behind the scenes to ensure the front of the house and kitchen teams never get slammed by too many guests being seated all at once. Reservation numbers on the books can tell you a lot about how much food you should order. Increased revenue.

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Restaurant Clicks

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Vinegar Hill House Superfine The Atrium Almondine Bakery AlMar Grimaldi’s Pizzeria Bread & Spread Westville Dumbo The River Cafe Celestine Gran Electrica. Vinegar Hill House. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Vinegar Hill House (@vinegarhillhouse). Most restaurants in this area cater to dinners or lunch.

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7 Shifts

APRIL 23, 2021

Early on in 2020, we were scrambling to figure out ways to get food to customers and how to give staff enough hours and keep them on the payroll. Staff are now tasked with policing masking, moving heavy furniture to configure outdoor dining, and packaging to-go orders. That all begins at the hiring level.

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Restaurant Clicks

JANUARY 2, 2022

What I love the most, though, is the abundance of fresh seafood and so many restaurants to order it from. Pa’ia Fish Market Front Street Restaurant. 632 Front St, Lahaina, HI 96761 Phone: 808-662-3456 Visit Website. Merriman’s Kapalua offers a dinner prix fixe menu, or you can order a la carte.

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7 Shifts

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Hootsuite’s top three benefits of implementing a UGC strategy include: Promoting authenticity; Building trust; and Driving purchasing decisions Put UGC to work for your restaurant by inviting diners to post a photo of their lunch on social media (tagging your business, of course) for a chance to win a meal on the house.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 25, 2021

In the past, kitchens worked by a paper ticket system, which was handwritten by the waitstaff and passed to the back-of-house (BOH) staff. Order Views – This is how your BOH staff actually sees the information. Meal Coursing – A feature that ensures that all the orders on a guest ticket come out simultaneously.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Contactless ordering at the table, virtual host stands, and online staff wellness checks have all become standard operating procedures for us now. The younger generations don’t just want great food, they expect memorable experiences. We celebrate this as it benefits us all when brands focus on sustainability. Lavu CEO Saleem S.

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Touch Bistro

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Restaurant servers (also known as waiters and waitresses) are the front of house staff in your restaurant. Their main responsibilities include taking food orders from guests and delivering orders to the kitchen, bringing customers their meals, and delivering checks when guests are finished eating. Job Description.

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Restaurant Clicks

DECEMBER 17, 2021

You can also frequent Dumbo’s famous flea markets and food markets to fill up on local eats and search for unique trinkets. Saketumi Asian Bistro Iron Chef House Kyoto Ozu Japanese Cuisine & Lounge Hibino KI Sushi Taiki Daigo Hand Roll Bar. Order Online. Iron Chef House. Best Sushi in Dumbo.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 15, 2021

When the economy was weak then restaurants were in the driver’s seat – more applicants than jobs available led to a competent workforce that was underpaid and overworked. The restaurant industry continues to be devastated – not just as a result of the pandemic but because the pandemic brought underlying issues to the surface.

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