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Death by a Thousand Service Fees

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Lille Allen/Eater After years of artificially low menu prices, service fees feel like an inevitable, annoying part of dining out now If you’re the type of diner who regularly eats at restaurants, you’ve almost assuredly noticed a “service fee” tacked on to your check at one establishment or another.

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MRM Research Roundup: Halloween-2019 Edition

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They collected and analyzed sales data between January 2018 and July 2019 from over 10,000 restaurants nationwide, measured the sales performance of each item, and ranked each item based on its overall and trending popularity. The company conducted over 750 trips between July and August of 2019. National Menu Trends.

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Restaurant Staffing Crisis Solutions: Experts Weigh In

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March restaurant sale surged 36 percent year-over-year and nearly reached 2019 levels. “A bubble tea person, a sandwich person, a dedicated register person and I’ve introduced a new role, front of house takeout specialist, to organize the online orders so I hire for that skill set.

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7 Restaurant Employee Contest Ideas to Boost Sales and Engagement

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47% of restaurants were negatively affected by employee turnover in 2019, with less than a third of restaurateurs reporting that turnover had no impact on their business. For the front-of-house, a cocktail or coffee drink. Have your servers keep a copy of their chits where they were able to upsell a guest to order all four.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Two

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Additionally, it means enacting ways to incentivize guests to order from a brand’s direct ordering channels, with offers like exclusive items and pricing, to drive in-house digital sales and therefore retain owned guest data. – Noah Glass, Founder & CEO, Olo Looking ahead to 2024, we anticipate more change.

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Blue Hill at Stone Barns Tells a Beautiful Story. Former Employees Say It’s Too Good to Be True.

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As Barber found fame by advocating for a culinary revolution, former cooks, servers, and managers say that conditions at his own restaurant could be brutal, rife with grinding pressure and explosions of anger. For a number of other former employees, what Blue Hill at Stone Barns offered wasn’t worth the price.

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A Hot Day in July

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The front-of-house staff, who used to ping-pong across the floor during service, are much more stationary now. Christina, who worked as a server and bartender at Hot House before the pandemic, spends the morning working the expediter position in the kitchen.