Hot Schedules

MAY 10, 2021

Seasonal Staff Playbook: Hiring, Training & Retaining Great Teams. Stadium and other sport event venues have a front row seat to these plays – and to what happens when the right talent gets on the field and execute. We’ve got a few tips from the workforce management front office here at Fourth. User Network. Social Media.

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7 Shifts

JULY 12, 2023

I kind of did it out of a self-serving type of thing where I was like, I never see him. It served a purpose. I have to do one or the other and it doesn't make sense to hire someone at Poppy + Rose when I can do this. She now co-owns Poppy + Rose, Poppy & Seed , and Root of all Food , an LA-based catering company.

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7 Shifts

MARCH 25, 2022

According to 7shifts own data, the average amount of sales per day in 2022 for quick-serve and fast casual restaurants hovers around $4,680.20. Recommended Reading: Danny Meyer on How to Hire the Right People For Your Restaurant. But how have they stacked up when it comes to sales and labor this year versus the same period in 2021?

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Touch Bistro

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In this guide to writing a restaurant server job description, we’ll cover: A basic overview of the server role A restaurant server job description sample A few key tips for hiring a star lineup of servers. Restaurant servers (also known as waiters and waitresses) are the front of house staff in your restaurant. Job Description.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Square : Online ordering for pickup, curbside, local delivery, or self-serve ordering; ideal for restaurants already using Square. It reduces ordering errors, increases front-of-house and back-of-house efficiency, and helps you control inventory. Owned by Doordash. Ideal for venues with simpler or more limited offerings.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 22, 2022

There were eighteen or twenty seats (mostly deuces) and in better weather maybe two more tables on the street or alleyway in front or beside these tastes of a chef. There were eighteen or twenty seats (mostly deuces) and in better weather maybe two more tables on the street or alleyway in front or beside these tastes of a chef.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

It means guests love the food you serve so much that one location simply won’t cut it — and you get to serve more customers, generate more revenue , and expand your business. If your restaurant is a number one hit in your area, it may serve you well to open up the exact same concept elsewhere. Table of Contents.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 31, 2024

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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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 1, 2022

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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Restaurant365

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

For many, the current labor shortage centers around both restaurant hiring and employee retention difficulties. The shortage is especially acute for back-of-house employees, such as prep cooks, line cooks, and dishwashers. Always Be Hiring with an Eye on Retention. Even when we’re theoretically fully staffed, we’re still hiring.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 5, 2023

There are films that become representative of a generation and sometimes of a life lesson – occasionally both. We remember a line or two that is always there to remind us, to give us pause, or inspire us to reconnect with something or someone. You want more! The fact of the matter is: “Wax On, Wax Off” is great advice.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Today’s restaurants face obstacles on many fronts. Most notably, persistent hiring challenges, rising costs, and uncertain supply chains have made profitability more precarious. Simplify Front of House Processes. Automation technologies can improve back of house operations as well. trillion each year.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Miso Robotics provides intelligent automation solutions for foodservice that solve some critical back-of-house kitchen operations. With our partnerships, we’ve had the opportunity to create, pilot, and implement more automated solutions that are ideal to serve the needs of our partners. Across the U.S.,

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

What those technologies are completely depends on the role, but here are a few of the more popular examples: Servers and front-of-house roles tend to familiarize themselves with point-of-sale (POS) technology, scheduling software , online ordering integrations, and perhaps even reservation software. Table of Contents. Undercooking.

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7 Shifts

MAY 10, 2021

He's a chef and the founder of Best Served Creative , a platform for hospitality works of all levels to tell their stories and make the industry better. Among the great insights Jensen brought were six red flags to avoids in the hiring process on both sides. It's not enough to just go "Hey, hiring line cooks. Reina (Form.

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Hiring Back of House Tip Distribution Insurance 370

7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The app is useful for both your front- and back-of-house staff, allowing them to check upcoming shifts, submit availability, request shift trades, and more. The app is useful for both your front- and back-of-house staff, allowing them to check upcoming shifts, submit availability, request shift trades, and more.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 8, 2024

The results give the green light for certain restaurants to introduce more front-of-house automation. Whereas most global consumers think it’s acceptable for QSRs to automate ordering, checkout, serving, and even sanitation tasks, the majority do not find this acceptable for table service.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The app is useful for both your front- and back-of-house staff, allowing them to check upcoming shifts, submit availability, request shift trades, and more. The app is useful for both your front- and back-of-house staff, allowing them to check upcoming shifts, submit availability, request shift trades, and more.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2021

Fast casual will continue to push out full-service brands because they can assemble food in front of you and get food to the customer more quickly. Two-thirds of new hires signing up for DailyPay. While staffing has always topped the list of restaurant owner/manager pain points, it now seems to be at crisis proportions.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 15, 2021

To have a successful restaurant, the owner or manager must be skilled at managing both front-of-house and back-of-house functions. To help increase these profit margins, restaurant owners sometimes focus more on changes they can make to front-of-house, such as increasing their prices or boosting liquor sales.

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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. Let’s Start With the Why.

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Front of House Mobile Ordering Loyalty Program Back of House 209

7 Shifts

AUGUST 5, 2020

Will you hire in-house drivers, use third party drivers, or cross train your front-of-house (FOH) staff to double as drivers ? Many have POS integrations and can automate tickets for the back-of-house (BOH) team. The order fulfillment process gets slowed down if your staff don’t know who is responsible for what.

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Delivery Food Email Marketing Front of House 341

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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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 2, 2022

As a manager, hiring an employee doesn’t mean your job is over. Typical insights for restaurant staff include customer satisfaction, number of tables served, turnover rate, and how many specials are being sold. Restaurant managers are always looking for new ways to make the day-to-day process of running their business easier.

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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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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

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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Management Management Coaching Front of House 188

7 Shifts

MAY 2, 2023

And I started as a server, so I started off working in the front of the house and learning, and they were the only ones who would give a PhD dropout with no previous experience a job. And we opened a Spanish tapas restaurant because my husband Felix is from Spain, and he's our front of house service guy and also idea man.

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Front of House Back of House Insurance Seasonal Menu 195

7 Shifts

MAY 31, 2021

Inventory was ordered based on par levels, which are set based on sales forecasts, which are in turn determined by how many guests you'll serve and what they'll order. But the term itself is broad enough to impose a simple yet essential question: what exactly is the concept of restaurant operations? Table of Contents. What does it mean?

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Restaurant Engine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Hiring good staff is integral to your overall customer dining experience. With more than two and a quarter million waitstaff in the United States, competition is fierce, and hiring just the right team members can be crucial to your restaurant’s success. This is why hiring correctly and for longevity is crucial for your restaurant.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Back-of-House and Front-of-House. Back-of-House and Front-of-House are an even split. 7shifts data shows no large discrepancy between turnover rates in the front- and back-of-house. Back-of-House and Front-of-House are an even split. Table of Contents. What about managers?

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ChefMod

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

A few examples are bonuses for referring new hires, attendance and retention bonuses, and other incentives like paid time off or healthcare coverage for part- time workers. Flair-ups in local infection cases and the uncertainty of variants still have the restaurant industry on its toes.

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Marketing4Restaurants

MAY 23, 2022

Hiring for restaurants is the number 1 problem for so many restaurants around the world right now. They’re not gonna feel like they’re getting second-best because the food you’re going to serve will be prepared by people who know what the food should taste like and what’s going to appeal to other vegetarians as well.

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Sling

MAY 13, 2023

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. In this article, we discuss the most common restaurant positions so you’ll have a better idea of who you need to hire for your business.

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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.

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Technology Front of House Back of House Online Ordering 147

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 16, 2021

Looking back on my last few articles, I have focused on facts, on technology and on the hard time that we are all having hiring staff. Imagine you have a restaurant that seats 120 and you have only one bartender and one server to handle the front-of-the-house. Caring Managers. Bartender and Chef Save the Day.

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Front of House Cash Management Back of House Hiring 206

7 Shifts

MARCH 16, 2022

In the restaurant industry, it can be difficult to maintain front- and back-of-house staff, as many will eventually move on to pursue new ventures such as school, travel, or alternate employment. Worse yet, some may leave simply because they do not feel valued or that there is no meaning attached to the work they do. Be Flexible.

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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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