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THE BEST OF TIMES, THE WORST OF TIMES

Culinary Cues

At the same time, many of those restaurant employees – front and back of the house, were taking their time trying to decide if it made sense to return to an industry that was unpredictable, low paying, void of reasonable benefit plans, and now a target for customer anger and angst as servers suddenly became covid policemen.

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A COOK WITHOUT A KITCHEN

Culinary Cues

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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24 Restaurant Positions and Their Roles Explained

Sling

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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12 Restaurant Lunch Specials: Make Lunch the Most Important Meal of the Day ???

7 Shifts

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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How a Virtual Kitchen Could Improve Your Restaurant Group’s Profitability

Restaurant365

However, on the restaurant end, there is no storefront, usually no possibility of walk-in business, and no front-of-house staff interacting in person with customers. All virtual kitchens operate out of commercial kitchen spaces, under the same licensing and food safety standards as restaurants. What is a virtual kitchen?

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Restaurant Recovery Strategies As Restaurants Re-Open

Sante

According to the CDC, cooked food will not spread a virus, but hard surfaces, like plates and utensils, may. Front of the house staff should not venture into the kitchen, and they should wear masks. Currently, restaurant seating maximizes the number of covers. What do you do about fixed seating like booths and bars?

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YEA: Restaurants Showing Resiliency with New Openings

Modern Restaurant Management

New restaurant and food businesses are opening at pre-pandemic levels, with the number of new openings increasingly more in line with 2018 and 2019 volumes, according to third quarter data for the Yelp Economic Average (YEA) report. “Business owners have proven their resilience throughout the course of this pandemic.