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Table Turnover Rate in Your Restaurant: How to Improve & Seat Incomplete Parties

Lavu

This should include all tables available for seating customers. Efficiently manage reservations: Ensure that the booking system is organized and avoids overbooking to prevent delays in table turnover. Use technology, such as a restaurant management software, to track who chose to reserve a table, and manage waitlists effectively.

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How Restaurant Reservation Software Can Help with Reopening in 2021

Touch Bistro

However, guest safety is still a top priority and many restaurant are turning to restaurant reservation software to navigate the tricky business of fully reopening their dining rooms. While restaurant reservation software is becoming essential to reopening, the technology is still new to many restaurateurs. Let’s dive in.

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Reskilling, Retention and Robotics: Creative Solutions to the Restaurant Labor Shortage

Modern Restaurant Management

Establishments are grappling with a complex crisis characterized by empty seats in dining areas and behind the scenes, where a shortage of skilled workers is keenly felt. Embracing automation while fostering a skilled and satisfied workforce presents a forward-looking approach to navigating the labor shortage.

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THE MOMENT WHEN YOU ARE IN THE ZONE – PART II

Culinary Cues

Jake didn’t even spend much time at the expo station until this first group of reservations was well underway – the line could handle it quite well. Salads, cold apps, and desserts were beautifully presented and ALWAYS ready when the server needed them. This was “order/fire” time. We’re good boss”.

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A COOK WITHOUT A KITCHEN

Culinary Cues

Meticulous plate presentations do not apply, the basic rules of thumb: “hot food hot, cold food cold” are a stretch when a guests meal is placed in disposable containers for re-heating at home, and the showmanship of service is relegated to passing a bag of food through a car window. The service staff is even more on edge than the cooks.

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Guide on Providing Excellent Customer Service: Before, During and After The Meal

7 Shifts

Try to be as prompt as possible when it comes to seating, and provide your guests with accurate estimated seating times. Avoid overbooking reservations. Overbooking reservations is as much a pain for the restaurant as it is for the customer. But today, the customer experience begins long before guests are seated.

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OUR DAILY BREATH: CHEFS AND RESTAURATEURS – DON’T WASTE THIS TIME

Culinary Cues

Some try and paint a brighter picture by projecting that as soon as the quarantine is lifted – people will return in droves to their previous lifestyle and fill those empty restaurant seats. We must recognize that this scenario is not that likely. RESTAURANTS DO NOT PROVIDE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ITS EMPLOYEES. Let’s figure this one out!

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