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8 Ways to Navigate The Restaurant Staff Shortage

Lavu

Make sure that you are paying your employees a fair wage and offering competitive benefits, such as health insurance, paid time off, and retirement savings plans. The system can also automatically send orders to the kitchen or bar, eliminating the need for manual communication. This is essential for attracting and retaining top talent.

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When Robots Replace Restaurant Workers, We All Lose

EATER

Diners would sit down and immediately download an app to browse the menu, place their order, and pay with a credit card, all on their phones. As startups have “disrupted” the restaurant industry, they’ve replaced menus and hand-written orders with kitchen display systems (KDS), ordering tablets, and QR codes.

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Capped at 15%, Food Delivery Apps Are Still Murder. Time to Let Them Go.

Cheetah

Encourage Customers to Order Food Directly from Your Restaurant Customers are eager to support their favorite mom-and-pop restaurant by ordering takeout food. What they don’t know is that every time they place an order via a third-party food delivery app it’s costing the restaurant money. Make sure you’re equipped.

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MRM Restaurant Survival Guide, Part Three

Modern Restaurant Management

To add resources to these guides, reach out to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com with news. Their technology allows a restaurant to enable curbside order, pay and delivery – with 24 hours. More than 1,500 have signed up.

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10 Payroll Reports Every Business Manager Needs To Know

Sling

You can’t manage what you don’t measure. In this article, the management experts at Sling answer your questions and tell you everything you need to know to optimize labor costs, stay on budget, and manage your business better. In some states, the employees themselves purchase this type of insurance through a private carrier.

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8 Things To Pay Attention To Before Starting Up A Food Truck

The Restaurant Times

After all, they let you change sites, keep menus short and focused, and create an exciting and dynamic small company on wheels since they are smaller and most importantly mobile, unlike a restaurant. However, translating one’s concept of a friendly neighbourhood mobile diner into a thriving business is no easy task. .

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How to Set Up and Run a Ghost Kitchen for Your Restaurant Business

Restaurant365

Shelter-in-place orders, dine-in restrictions and diners’ hesitation to eat out have combined to prompt restaurants to shift their focus to takeout and delivery. Sometimes called a virtual restaurant, virtual kitchen or cloud kitchen, a ghost kitchen is a food-service business that serves customers exclusively through online orders.