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KITCHEN RESPECT

Culinary Cues

Employees must be properly trained and then given the responsibility and authority to make those decisions that fit their position. [] SERVE: Respect means that everyone involved in the restaurant is in the service business. Every day should be an opportunity for each employee to grow, learn, and improve through teaching and training.

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How to Improve Restaurant Operations: 9 Proven Strategies

7 Shifts

This is important, especially if you're training and hiring new employees. Instead of working with various separate tools for accounting, inventory tracking and management, issuing invoices, scheduling shifts, and processing payroll, 7shifts can provide you with all these features.

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Transforming Restaurant Operations: Uniting Teams and Closing Communication Gaps

Modern Restaurant Management

Ensuring that operational systems are uniform across the business can enable employees at all levels of the organization to come to the same understanding of the organization’s efficiency and work together to find an ideal solution.

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THE RESTAURANT ECO-SYSTEM NEEDS HELP

Culinary Cues

There are short-term band aid solutions such as takeout, delivery, or even conversion into retail markets where wine inventories and local necessities take over space once occupied by diners, but they are not a replacement for a steady turn of tables. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. Even the best operators are at a loss for solutions.

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A COOK’S MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH

Culinary Cues

DISSHOVELED APPEARANCE: When a once professional looking (well groomed, uniform clean and pressed, shoes clean, station in impeccable order) cook begins to look like he or she simply doesn’t care any longer, then it’s time to pay attention. TRAINING: You can never train too much.

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ALL HAIL DISHWASHERS

Culinary Cues

By far one of the most expensive inventories in a kitchen is china, glassware, and flatware. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. Who is in control of this? Who can make a difference through efficient use of the machine and the process of washing dishes? The dish washer! Who is responsible for this? The dish washer! Restaurant Consulting.

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CHEFS – SIGN YOUR PLATES

Culinary Cues

You set the tone for others to emulate. [] TEACH AND TRAIN. Right down to their station set-up, organization of pans, cleanliness of cookware, uniforms, the way they cut vegetables and fillet a whole fish – excellence is a habit – make it so! [] SHOW NO TOLERANCE FOR MEDIOCRITY IN ANYTHING. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER.