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How to Improve Restaurant Operations: 9 Proven Strategies

7 Shifts

Improving your restaurant operations to succeed in this highly competitive industry means serving quality food and providing excellent customer service while minimizing waste, reducing costs, and keeping your employees engaged. This is where developing a comprehensive restaurant operations plan comes in.

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To Protest and (Refuse to) Serve

EATER

After entering a local Starbucks in uniform and hanging around with their drinks, a barista came over and asked them to move or leave, saying their uniformed presence was making another customer uncomfortable. also spoke out against serving the police. But shifting public opinion about the police suggests that might be changing.

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A COOK FULFILLED

Culinary Cues

Every person has needs that go beyond food, shelter, and clothing. I want to believe that under the façade of despair and sometimes even distain lies a person with incredible potential to be the best he or she can be, to serve and to create, and to reach for his or her personal and professional potential – to be fulfilled.

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How to Create an Effective Restaurant Onboarding Process

7 Shifts

Here’s an example of an onboarding overview: Day One Orientation: Learning about the restaurant’s culture and history, meeting coworkers, and receiving a uniform. Reviewing health and safety protocol. It’s important to train all newcomers on your service standards to make sure they’re giving guests a uniform experience.

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THE TERRITORY AHEAD FOR CHEFS

Culinary Cues

We should applaud competition, welcome it, and learn from it. [] DON’T PUSH ASIDE FOOD TO GO, FOOD DELIVERY, GHOST KITCHENS, OR CURBSIDE PICK-UP JUST YET: Yep, it saved many restaurants and our customers embraced it – now we can’t forget it. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. Prepare for the New Reality. Harvest America Ventures, LLC.

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How to Achieve Consistent Operating Procedures Across All Your Restaurant Locations

Transact

Ensure Uniformity. Ensure Personal Safety. Carefully developed, tested, and implemented standardized procedures guide workers and greatly reduce the possibility of missed steps or other errors that impact the quality and safety of the food you serve. Improve Quality Assurance. Save Time & Money.

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How To Open a Restaurant

The Restaurant Group

These grim statistics show how difficult it is to survive—let alone thrive—in the food industry. Establishing a brand identity for your own enterprise will differentiate it from other food businesses. Will you serve American, Italian, Mexican, or fusion? However, all is not lost. Concept Are you going for formal or casual?