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How Restaurants Can Remain Competitive in 2021

7 Shifts

For both safety and ease, there isn’t a better option. Kitchen display systems (KDS) eliminate the need to bring tickets back to the kitchen or handle a printer. Reducing contact on high-touch devices in your restaurant is a difference-maker for its cleanliness and safety of your team. Not just any—fishbowl cocktails.

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How to Plan Your Restaurant's Grand Re-Opening Event

7 Shifts

When it comes to preparing your staff for your reopening, ensure you’ve updated their training for the latest health and safety procedures and precautions your restaurant will be observing. Additionally, by keeping the menu to a limited number of dishes, you can better plan and manage your food costs.

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Guide to Serving Gluten-Free Restaurant Customers

360Training

Some restaurants can manage this, and some can’t. Add a note to your marketing materials (like your website, print menu, and online menu) that you can’t guarantee dishes free of trace gluten. Examples include colanders, graters, serving spoons, pizza cutters, and ice cream scoops. Separate Utensils.

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Hospo Reset’s Product of the Week

Ken Burgin

Every week in the Hospo Reset Newsletter, we share a product or service that’s caught our eye – for kitchen & beverage management, staffing, facilities management, marketing and overall productivity. Food, Menus and Kitchen Management. Coffee and Beverage Management. Staff Management.

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The 10 Best Bits of Advice We Heard on Season 1 of the Restaurant Growth Podcast

7 Shifts

You can go onto your camera app and press record, and record something that's less than 60 seconds of who you are, what you do, what you're doing for COVID-19 safety, why you're reopening, why you care about the community, why it's important that somebody comes and buys gift cards, whatever you're doing. But what can you do?

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Restaurant Hiring: Navigating the Labor Shortage

7 Shifts

The same New York Times story found that 80 to 85 percent of Crafted Hospitality group's kitchen employees have moved out of New York City. Many workers are not returning due to personal safety concerns, and many have left the industry altogether. This, of course, doesn't mean it's ok to serve bad food. Consider your website.

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The Downfall of a Restaurant: A Leadership Deficit

Embrace the Suck

It begins with a pinch of complacency, a dash of poor decision-making, and a generous serving of ineffective communication. Leadership: The Missing Ingredient The best restaurants are those led by individuals who understand that their role extends beyond the kitchen or the management office.