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From The Front Door to the Back of House: Navigating COVID in a Rapidly Changing World

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While you can’t plan for everything, you can anticipate how COVID and government regulations in response to it will affect your business and simultaneously plan your business’s future during and hopefully after the pandemic.

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Franchise Portfolio Diversification: Trends Taking Shape in 2022

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This approach required fewer front-of-the-house staff to maintain a dining room, complied with government orders, and kept many brands from closing. The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in a lot of chaos and accelerated several trends within the restaurant industry. Just as one issue seemed fixed, another presents itself.

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‘We Need to Feed People — Thousands of People’

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Brendan Smith/Chef Hui Weeks after the Maui fires, Hawaiʻi chefs continue to cook for displaced people while trying to keep their own restaurants afloat On the morning of August 8, chef Isaac Bancaco rode his bike to Pacific’o on the Beach, the upscale Pacific Rim restaurant he helmed on Front Street, on Lahaina’s historic waterfront.

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LESSONS GIVEN – LESSONS LEARNED

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Even through the most challenging and tragic experiences, when the lessons are quite vivid – we quickly push aside the need to change in favor of a return to what is considered “normal”. 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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Post-Pandemic Insurance Liability Considerations All Restaurant Owners Should Be Aware Of

Modern Restaurant Management

Despite the above, many brokers and consultants have recommended clients, at minimum, notice the insurance policies anyway, to avoid untimely reporting, to allow for a recordkeeping of loss of income, and to create a placeholder in the event a state or federal government was to force insurers to provide some level protection in the future.

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Employee Turnover is at an All-Time High: 5 Emerging Benefits Trends You Need to Know

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Going this route also frees up management from HR administration to complete more front-of-house tasks. For businesses, retaining employees (and hiring in the first place) has become the number one prerogative – just to keep the lights on. Employee turnover greatly hampers throughput and cuts into available revenues. Bulk Benefits.

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‘Challenging Is Not Nearly a Strong Enough Word’

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In the absence of clear federal and state government mandates, they have had hugely variable experiences from workplace to workplace as they weigh the pros and cons of returning to kitchens and dining rooms. Sandy Levine owns Chartreuse Kitchen & Cocktails in Detroit and is also high-risk. High-Risk Workers Have Only So Many Options.