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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7 Shifts

JANUARY 26, 2021

Ordering online, paying with mobile phones, scanning QR codes for a menu, and a ton of takeout, are just a part of dining out now. diners prefer to view menus, order, and pay for their meal using their phones rather than interacting with servers during the pandemic. 2020 was a year that the restaurant industry won’t soon forget.

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The Restaurant Times

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Restaurants are now adjusting to the new normal and online ordering is paving the path to success for many restaurants. Dine-in income has dropped by over half and as a result, numerous eateries have closed or are considering transitioning to online ordering. In House Online Restaurant Ordering System – The Basics

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7 Shifts

JUNE 20, 2022

No front of house staff, smaller spaces, and no need for prime real estate that all contribute to the lower costs. For example, a brand may prepare a bulk of their ingredients in a commissary kitchen, and assemble to order in a ghost kitchen. Table of Contents. What is a ghost kitchen? Benefits of a ghost kitchen model.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

If you're standing in line waiting to order the special of the night, the seasonal Panzanella Salad, you don't want to hear “86 the special”. Or, if you've worked in a restaurant as a chef, line cook, or as part of the FOH (front-of-house), you may have used this hospitality term yourself. Table of Contents. What does 86 mean?

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Online and Mobile Ordering Systems. Online ordering and delivery are one of the fastest growing aspects of the restaurant industry, up 124% in 2020. Customers are demanding online and mobile ordering, and modern restaurant tech makes it more accessible for every restaurateur. Third-party delivery.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

WiFi connectivity is also crucial for operational management and enhancing the customer experience, allowing patrons to interact digitally with the restaurant for orders, payments, and feedback. At the core, these solutions include high-speed internet, ensuring all digital operations run smoothly and without interruption.

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Touch Bistro

JULY 1, 2021

Now, more than ever, restaurants are leaning into online ordering as a way to streamline takeout and delivery, and help their businesses recover from the impact of the pandemic. Get TouchBistro Online Ordering. Third-Party Online Ordering Apps vs. Direct Online Ordering. And for good reason.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 11, 2021

This guide includes ideas and checklists for everything from keeping your staff healthy to optimizing your ordering platforms. Order Cleaning Supplies such as disinfectant, paper products, mop heads, and floor cleaner The staff at Ruby's Cafe in New York City, a 7shifts' customer Optimize Your Labor ?? "Winter is coming".said

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 13, 2023

Just as the pandemic fueled digital transformation via no-contact delivery apps, QR code menus, and digital ordering, restaurants challenged by lack of staffing will likely turn to technology like Artificial Intelligence (AI) to alleviate pain points. Taking Orders with Artificial Intelligence.

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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

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

MAY 18, 2020

launched its COVID-19 online operator resource, the US Foods Restaurant Reopening Blueprint. The Small Business Administration (SBA), in consultation with the Department of the Treasury , released the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loan Forgiveness Application and detailed instructions for the application. US Foods Holding Corp.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 17, 2023

Automation tools also provide value through mobile ordering apps, AI solutions, digital reviews apps, and online reservation software. Mobile Order Applications Mobile smart order apps for waiters help to speed up the service and manage the orders right at the guest’s table.

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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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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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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 9, 2022

So, you could offset increased beef costs by having customers who order a chicken dish foot the bill. You might discover your biggest sales come from online orders through your website, so perhaps it’s time to create an app to make ordering and cashing in on rewards even easier for customers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 11, 2024

For front of house workers set goals on the number of turnovers of tables or good reviews. For back of house set goals on the time it takes to get food to the pass and out to customers. A customer will complain, the expo line will get backed up, a server may fall and drop an order. Set goals for your staff.

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ChowNow

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This program provides ChowNow’s clients with special access and exclusive discounts to unique product integrations and services, from front- to back-of-house, and everywhere in between. ChowNow’s integration to Square allows restaurants to receive and fulfill every order into one POS and simplify their operations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Walk down any street, uptown or downtown, and there are still numerous ‘closed’ signs on the front of restaurants and other service businesses. In many ways, restaurants offering online ordering and delivery services face the same challenges as other online businesses.

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ChowNow

OCTOBER 18, 2023

This program provides ChowNow’s clients with special access and exclusive discounts to unique product integrations and services, from front- to back-of-house, and everywhere in between. ChowNow’s integration to Square allows restaurants to receive and fulfill every order into one POS and simplify their operations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

There are many platforms in the marketplace designed to help owners with restaurant operations like table management service (TMS), online reservations, scheduling, and payroll to marketing. Automated solutions like call-in waiting, online bookings, etc., They can allocate lesser staff during off-peak hours.

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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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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Whether it's personalizing the drive-through experience or reliably managing store hours, a strong network can power the restaurant management tools and apps that QSRs need to streamline front- and back-of-house operations, enhance dining experiences, and keep guests happy. Enabling Flexible Ordering.

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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.,

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In fact, 77% of diners visit a restaurant’s website before dining in or ordering out. To really bring in sales, you’ll need one that’s optimized for orders. Here’s all you need to know about building a great site that drives online orders. But not all sites are created equal.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 14, 2021

The share of front of house shifts have dropped 7.6% Before March of 2020, front of house shifts made up 34% of all shifts. If to-go is going to become a thing [of the] future, there’s going to be more labor allocated towards the back of the house and the expediting and the logistics of all of that. of revenue.

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7 Shifts

JUNE 3, 2020

Ani Ramen is a boutique ramen house with five locations in New Jersey. When you place your order, you’re given the option to donate a pie or chicken to the Front Lines. When you place your order, you’re given the option to donate a pie or chicken to the Front Lines. We serve people. We take care of people.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

There’s a wide range of options available that take the entire process online. Inventory management software is one great resource to help cut down on food waste, food cost and ensure that everything in your back-of-house is streamlined for transparency and profitability. That’s where a cloud-based inventory management system comes in.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 23, 2022

Taking orders at the counter and preparing quick meals were not necessarily perceived as stepping stones to better-paid careers with expanded responsibilities. The front of the house features POS tablets as well as tablets loaded with digital checklists that chronicle everything from opening and closing tasks to basic store hygiene functions.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 12, 2021

Restaurants have made great strides in the digital realm—from contactless payments to online ordering—but 32 percent of them feel like they could add to their technology stack to optimize operations. Gives front-of-house teams the resources to provide better customer service.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Front-of-House. Henry is ready to order some dinner. He visits your restaurant’s app and orders his favorite dish on the menu. He visits your restaurant’s app and orders his favorite dish on the menu. He receives an estimated wait time for his order of 45 minutes. Contactless Technology.

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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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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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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Every restaurant has a back of house and a front of house. Cloud Kitchens are restaurants with no front of house. This indicated a clear trend that a “restaurant” does not need to necessarily comprise of both front of house and back of house components.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 18, 2020

At the beginning of the pandemic, Paul Dioguardi, owner of Colorado-based Hickory House Ribs, realized there was only so much he could do with the amount of available restaurant tables so he decided to focus on growing the catering side of the business. ’ Just having this van parked out front drove that sale.”

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