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A Guide to the Role of a Restaurant Manager: Duties, Daily Routine, and Essential Skills

7 Shifts

You're responsible for tactical duties like training new hires, conducting performance reviews, disciplining rule breakers and poor performers, and handling compensation changes—in addition to more interpersonal tasks like mentorship and ensuring professional growth. This part of the job is arguably the most multi-faceted.

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To Mitigate ‘The Great Resignation’ Refocus on the Employee Experience

Modern Restaurant Management

Even with this good news for restaurant operators, many challenges still remain – particularly around staffing in both the front and back of the house. A recent survey of restaurant operators by the University of South Florida School of Hospitality found that hiring and turnover was their number one challenge.

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MRM EXCLUSIVE: New Research Reveals Restaurant Managers Are Key Ingredient in the Recipe for Staff Retention

Modern Restaurant Management

The importance of (and need for) managers’ frontline leadership spans both back-of-house and front-of-house, extending from the kitchen when cooks need help to the dining room handling guests’ needs. So, what did we find? A desire for better pay is the No.

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[Data] How Have The Shifts Changed For Those Working in The Restaurant Industry

7 Shifts

Notable increases in shifts schedules for Back of House Manager (125%) , Dish/Prep (117%), Cook (111%) and notably, Driver (85%) are indicative of the shift towards off-premise dining brought upon by the pandemic. For restaurant staffing , a lot of talk has been centered around the labor shortage—and who isn't working.

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A Guide to the Role of a Restaurant Manager: Duties, Daily Routine, and Essential Skills

7 Shifts

You're responsible for tactical duties like training new hires, conducting performance reviews, disciplining rule breakers and poor performers, and handling compensation changes—in addition to more interpersonal tasks like mentorship and ensuring professional growth. This part of the job is arguably the most multi-faceted.

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Questions in the Minds of Restaurant Job Applicants

Ken Burgin

They will be interested in get a sense of the team’s spirit, leadership style, and the overall atmosphere of the kitchen. If the managers or owners doing an interview raise and answer these job applicant questions, they will have a better rapport with applicants. What is the kitchen’s work culture like?

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From Cashier to VP: How 4 Restaurant Execs Climbed the Ladder

7 Shifts

In that leadership position, he created classes for managers on skills like leadership and cost control. With experience in the front and back of the house, Kam Talebi has walked a mile in both shoes. What comes to mind when you think of success in the restaurant industry? Maybe you realized hospitality is your passion.