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What is a Restaurant’s Front Of House (FOH) – Everything You Need To Know

The Restaurant Times

Front-of-house (FOH) refers to all activities and settings a patron will experience while dining at a restaurant, including the lobby and dining area. Hence, your restaurant’s front-of-the-house staff members should always maintain a high standard of personal hygiene and present a polished, welcoming image.

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Moves Modern Restaurants Are Making in 2024

Modern Restaurant Management

While consumers might seek culinary experiences they can’t have at home, they have vastly different expectations for how they engage – whether via phone, app ordering, third-party take-out, or dining in, they want the same seamless interactions they’ve come to expect in all areas of their lives.

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THE KING IS IN THE HOUSE

Culinary Cues

Outside people went about their day, never giving mind to the effort, dichotomy of characters, hustle, stress, and complexity of what takes place in the “back of the house” at a twelve hundred room hotel. Chefs are often nostalgic. So here is an example of a story build mostly on fact with I’m sure a touch of embellishment over the years.

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Wage Inequity is Plaguing the Restaurant Industry. Here’s How Four Restaurants are Fighting It.

7 Shifts

It leads to discrimination, sexism, and sexual harassment , and creates a disparity between the back and front of house. It has left far too many of its workers to rely on food stamps —an irony that shouldn't go unnoticed. The restaurant industry has a wage problem.

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THE KITCHEN IS THE GREAT EQUALIZER

Culinary Cues

There are many reasons why I am so grateful for the decades I spent in front of a range. They are the people I am most comfortable around – people with whom I share something important – preparing food. I could not think of a career more rewarding than being a cook and a chef. In all cases – I have learned something from them.

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What Does 86 Mean? Definition, History and More

7 Shifts

If you're standing in line waiting to order the special of the night, the seasonal Panzanella Salad, you don't want to hear “86 the special”. Or, if you've worked in a restaurant as a chef, line cook, or as part of the FOH (front-of-house), you may have used this hospitality term yourself. Table of Contents. What does 86 mean?

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TECHNOLOGY AND RESTAURANT CULTURE (part two)

Culinary Cues

Employees can always catch up on their phones during breaks but during production and service their focus must be on the job in front of them. [] BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER: One of the “bad and ugly” aspects to technology, especially social media, is that people are pulled into their silos and fail to interact and share with others.