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MRM EXCLUSIVE: Creating a Culture of Cleanliness 

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There are several considerations that owners and managers must take when establishing new cleaning procedures, including: Frequency – Enhanced cleaning and disinfection, in both front-of-house (FOH) and back-of-house (BOH) areas, will reduce the spread of potentially harmful germs throughout the restaurant.

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10 Top Restaurant Technologies To Evolve Your Business

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After that, the most popular back-office technologies were accounting software (52%, up from 31% in 2018) and payroll software (50%, up from 28% in 2018), according to a study from Toast. Your POS system reduces ordering errors, increases front-of-house and back-of-house efficiency, and helps you control inventory.

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Surprising Ways that Tech Can Help Evolve Your Restaurant

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After that, the most popular back-office technologies were accounting software (52%, up from 31% in 2018) and payroll software (50%, up from 28% in 2018), according to a study from Toast. Gone are the days of institutional knowledge, or keeping guest preferences in the heads of your front-of-house staff.

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MRM at Five: What Issues Have Impacted Restaurants?

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I remember the excitement when I learned of the world’s first automated burger restaurant in San Francisco, Creator, in 2018. Specifically, technology and digitization has been coming to the front of house. Therefore, digitization and optimizing the back and front of house will increasingly become common and important.

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How I Got My Job: Founding a Hip and Sustainable Canned Wine Company

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I worked back of house at Boulettes Larder and Michael Mina , then went to front of house at Saison. Kern Schireson, the CEO at Known, has been guiding me on my journey as CEO since 2018. It was an incredible experience to be a part of and shaped so much of how I operate my own business.

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I’m Through Being Silent About the Restaurant Industry’s Racism

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In the six years I worked in restaurants, I never saw BIPOC (Black, indigenous, and people of color) in management, or even a Black bartender; most people of color were forced to remain in the back of house, or as bussers and runners in the front of house. The staff was mostly BIPOC, and included several Black females.

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David Chang’s Memoir Fails to Account for the Trauma He Caused Me

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He is probably the modern equivalent of Norman Mailer or Muhammad Ali in the 1960s and ’70s,” the New York Times ’s Pete Wells wrote in 2018 , “somebody whose success in one part of the culture allows him to sound off on the rest of the culture and where it is heading.”. I love teams.” We couldn’t cook, he told us; we were no artists.