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How a Restaurant Closing Checklist Benefits Your Business

Society Insurance

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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Restaurant Hiring: Navigating the Labor Shortage

7 Shifts

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. The same New York Times story found that 80 to 85 percent of Crafted Hospitality group's kitchen employees have moved out of New York City. That all begins at the hiring level.

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Questions in the Minds of Restaurant Job Applicants

Ken Burgin

Questions in the Minds of Chefs or Cooks Applying for a Job What is the restaurant’s culinary or food philosophy? Applicants may wonder about the restaurant’s culinary direction, commitment to sustainability, sourcing ingredients, and how innovation is balanced with tradition in the kitchen.

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How to Deal with Legal Regulations Affecting Your New Restaurant

Open for Business

Draw on the experience of your team Your contractor, designer, engineer, architect, and kitchen equipment vendor will be your most valuable allies in getting all of your licenses, permits, inspections, and postings completed properly.

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No-Crisis Planning for Restaurants & Cafes

Ken Burgin

Key staff resignations, equipment breakdowns, people issues, a kitchen fire or industry disputes – one way or another your turn will come. Crisis and drama seem to be part of daily life in hospitality – something most of us learn to put up with and live through. We often have it for breakfast!

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8 Ways to Navigate The Restaurant Staff Shortage

Lavu

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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2021: A Year of Strategic Questions for Restaurants 

Modern Restaurant Management

But restaurants, now that they are also bringing people back inside, are going to have do the harder work of making it a permanent solution—whether that's a pickup window adjacent to their door or reworking their kitchen in such a way that its food is flowing to the front of house in a more efficient manner.

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