7 Shifts

AUGUST 5, 2020

Food delivery ideas: How to manage staff to boost off-site dining revenue It’s important to have a protocol in place for managing delivery and takeout orders. The order fulfillment process gets slowed down if your staff don’t know who is responsible for what. Decide who will be in charge of managing takeout and delivery orders.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 1, 2022

As brands scrambled to change their business models – whether through the adoption of touchless payments, delivery and curbside pickup, or the use of QR codes to access online menus – consumers were also forced to adapt their dining behaviors. And according to Technomic, Inc., And according to Technomic, Inc.,

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 24, 2022

When properly deployed, they can transform the employee experience by improving daily operations, syncing front-of-house and back-of-house communication and execution, and delivering a memorable dining experience that won’t send staff to the walk-in cooler for a good cry. Hospitality is greater than the sum of its parts.

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Open for Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Streamline the front of house. Run a smooth back of house. Streamline the front of house. Keeping front-of-house activities humming like a well-oiled machine is important for every restaurant. Keeping front-of-house activities humming like a well-oiled machine is important for every restaurant.

Technology 147

Technology Front of House Back of House Online Ordering 147

7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

If you're managing multiple locations of the same concept, you'll benefit from having a universal approach to hiring, training, suppliers, technology, and the overall guest experience. Making the right restaurant hire is more important than ever. Table of Contents. New Concept or Replicate? Create Consistency with Your Operations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

You are sitting in your favorite restaurant and have placed an order on a tablet at your table. After a few seconds of placing the order, a notification appears on your messaging app. Ding* ‘Your order is being prepared by Chef Bot 19 and will be delivered to your table in approximately 19 minutes.

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Lavu

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

million, while the number of hires was 1.3 million, while the number of hires was 1.3 This means that there were 600,000 more job openings than hires in the food services and drinking places industry in July 2023. This statistic is based on a survey of restaurant operators conducted in January 2023.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 31, 2024

Restaurant managers also either oversee or directly respond to online reviews. Managing a restaurant is a delicate routine—if we can even call it a routine. A better description might be a balancing act that presents new and unique challenges every day. This wide-ranging responsibility is a lot, and it often leads to burnout.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

That’s because 41 percent of people prefer to order food online rather than in-store. If you’re not marketing yourself online or devising a powerful local search engine optimization (SEO) strategy, how are they going to find you? They want engaging content that keeps them entertained.

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Marketing Social Media SEO Front of House 199

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 11, 2024

Management takes on multiple jobs throughout the restaurant including hiring, marketing, maintaining the budget, operations and keeping customers and staff happy. For front of house workers set goals on the number of turnovers of tables or good reviews. Showing appreciation to your staff always helps boost morale.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 20, 2021

Restaurants that once employed full front of house operations, quickly turned into crews of kitchen and expeditor staff only, employing sometimes 25-50 percent of their original staff. As dining turned to off premise, remaining staff were focused on packaging and expediting to-go and delivery orders. Roles shifted too.

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7 Shifts

MARCH 31, 2023

Some of us know that we should - but in between dealing with maintenance issues and hiring new employees, it can be hard enough to take care of yourself, let alone your staff. Because I don't wanna hire the wrong people. And what I've found is that once I have hired those people, I started to see the hourly team changed.”

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Open for Business

MARCH 7, 2023

The majority of new hires have worked in the restaurant industry before and likely in the same role. Here are some of the most common ways industry skills are taught today: One-on-one training If you own a small restaurant where people are hired one at a time, one-on-one training will probably make the most sense.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Dark kitchens or virtual kitchens––real places staffed with non-ectoplasmic people—bring efficiencies to running a restaurant by providing off-site commissary services for delivery orders. Growth for most, after all, isn’t walking through the front door, it’s coming in online. It might not be.

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Front of House Kitchen Safety Food Back of House 199

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 15, 2021

The ingrained customer behavior over the past year, delivery, mobile orders, curbside pick-up, will likely continue. By improving customer loyalty and increasing revenue through the smart use of technology from the public-facing part of the business all the way to the back-of-house prep, sourcing, and staffing.

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Technology Loyalty Program Front of House Online Ordering 198

7 Shifts

JANUARY 7, 2020

The people you hire to run your restaurant can make or break the business. By using values-based hiring to find team members who are a good fit for your restaurant’s culture. Don’t fret if you’ve made hiring decisions based on other criteria; you can still keep your employees engaged, but it’s going to take some work.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In order for new hires to perform well and stay happy in their roles, hiring managers need to pay more attention to the restaurant onboarding process. The purpose of the onboarding process is to teach new hires how to do their jobs successfully, and to catch them up on the company's culture and procedures.

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Restaurant365

JUNE 17, 2022

Apps are more intuitive than ever, websites are smarter and technology can help hiring and retention, delivery and operations. “That saves time, and that saves mistakes because everything is being displayed,” Wang said, “so you know what tables have ordered.” Hiring and onboarding technology.

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Technology Front of House Back of House Mobile Ordering 78

7 Shifts

AUGUST 12, 2020

So far, 2020 has thrown marketing plans, advertising budgets, and restaurant growth out of the window. Whatever plans and forecasts you had for your restaurant are yesterday’s bread now. But as restaurants reopen and business starts to pick up again, it’s important you pick up your marketing plan too. So, where do you start?

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Marketing 2020 SEO Loyalty Program 418

Open for Business

MAY 16, 2024

A well-optimized website can improve your restaurant’s visibility in search engine results, making it easier for potential customers to discover you online. Additionally, a website allows you to reach a wider audience through social media sharing, linked press coverage, or online advertising.

Website Management 78

Website Management Email Marketing SEO Seasonal Menu 78

The Rail

MARCH 14, 2023

QR codes offer a convenient and contactless way for customers to access menus, order food, and pay using mobile devices. Contactless menus , a popular ordering style that enhances safety, utilize QR codes that customers can easily scan with their smartphone cameras. What is a QR Code for a Restaurant?

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Mobile Ordering FOH Front of House Kitchen Safety 111

7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

You need to put yourself in front of diners, get them in your door, and turn them into ambassadors of your restaurant that come back and tell their friends about you. Restaurant owners and operators wear a lot of hats. We live in a world where diners are inundated with choices. There are more options for eating out than ever before.

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Seating Email Marketing Marketing SEO 221

Apicbase

MAY 29, 2024

According to Statista , in 2023, the revenue of online food delivery was estimated at over $1 trillion, and it is expected to hold a 50% share of the drive-thru and takeaway food service markets by 2030. The brand only exists online and takes orders through mobile apps such as Uber Eats or Just Eat. Virtual restaurant brand.

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Kitchen Safety Front of House Online Ordering Food Order 52

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 2, 2021

The growing popularity and adoption of online shopping has created a new mental model in which consumers have become accustomed to controlling how and when they make their purchases. But not in the way you might think. So what exactly does this future look like? The Shift to Co-Pilot Mode.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Restaurants will continue to embrace digital on-premise, including mobile ordering and payment at the table, to streamline operations and improve the guest experience. Restaurants will continue to embrace digital on-premise, including mobile ordering and payment at the table, to streamline operations and improve the guest experience.

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SpotOn

MARCH 5, 2024

From its inception, Mi' N Tea has been an online business with online ordering and social media marketing woven into its DNA. What started as a quest for survival quickly transformed into a front-of-house cluttered with third-party platform iPads—each one a needy baby constantly pinging for attention.

Email Marketing 52

Email Marketing Loyalty Program Online Ordering Front of House 52

7 Shifts

MAY 27, 2021

Restaurant schedules shuffle all the time. While some managers dread the thought of a seasonal, monthly, or weekly schedule adjustment, others rely on it. This practice of planned changes to employee schedules is known as rotating scheduling – and about 5% of hospitality employees work this way. Table of Contents. What is a Rotating Schedule?

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Front of House Employee Relations Back of House Take-out 370

The Restaurant Times

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

As situations post COVID-19 are returning to normalcy, restaurant operators have already started mulling over how to increase footfall, both offline and online. Hiring More Staff For Front- And Back-Of-The-House Operations. Hiring more staff is one of the strategies adopted to increase footfall.

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Operations Front of House Back of House Seating 52

7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

But we kept the back-of-house revenue share program for our kitchen teams, where regardless of what position you work in the kitchen, you get a certain percentage of revenue earned. You have to hire happy people that want to be there,” said Kelly Phillips. You have to hire happy people that want to be there,” said Kelly Phillips.

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Open for Business

MARCH 1, 2023

More than 87% say they’re likely to hire in 2023 if they can find qualified applicants, according to the National Restaurant Association. Vaccines and relaxed pandemic restrictions in 2021 spurred restaurant owners to hire at above-average wages , but open positions remained high. Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 15, 2022

We've also included a roundup of interview best practices you should be aware of before showing up to speak to the hiring manager. A hiring manager wants to know how you handle a very real, stressful part of the job. Are you a restaurant owner looking for question to ask potential candidates? Table of Contents. How to Answer.

Customer Experience 397

Customer Experience Website Management Hiring Back of House 397

Open for Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Should you hire a guest experience manager? Searching online. Most potential guests, especially Millennials and Gen Z , first notice a restaurant online, usually on social media channels. But today, restaurant tech plays a major role in improving the guest experience. Restaurants are judged based on how they make guests feel.

Technology 78

Technology Online Ordering Website Management Mobile Ordering 78

7 Shifts

JANUARY 7, 2021

To help, we’ve created the ultimate restaurant marketing guide, covering strategy, creative, branding, marketing channels, paid and unpaid advertising, and so much more. Why you need a solid restaurant marketing plan You may think you don’t need a marketing plan, and have never created one in the past—so why start now? So, where do you start?

Marketing 195

Marketing 2021 SEO Loyalty Program 195

Restaurant365

DECEMBER 6, 2019

A mobile POS can help any restaurant looking to improve server productivity, increase revenue, and overall streamline their front of house operations. If they’re trying to remember all the refill requests and extra sides of ranch, they may forget to upsell items while taking a pen-and-paper order. What is a Mobile POS?

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7 Shifts

JULY 27, 2023

Jason Hammel opened Lula Cafe in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood back in 1999. More than 20 years later, the award-winning farm-to-table institution is one of the city's most celebrated restaurants. For an industry with a high rate of first-year closures, Lula Cafe's longevity is a testament to what Hammel calls a youthful mindset.

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Communication Front of House Education Back of House 195

The Restaurant Times

AUGUST 26, 2022

These apps enable you to centralize different facets of your restaurant’s day-to-day activities, such as accepting online orders, ringing up customers, managing payroll, and tracking performance. The restaurant management apps make everything easily accessible in one interface so that you and your staff can work more efficiently.

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Restaurant365

JANUARY 7, 2020

Unengaged employees can be a recipe for disaster, especially when poor service can trickle into online reviews that affect your restaurant’s reputation. The new tool many restaurants are turning to, in order to improve employee retention and engage with today’s modern workforce? Tips for Hiring Millennials.

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