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Scheduling Strategies to Prevent Employee Burnout and Survive This Holiday Season

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Most restaurant owners would be loath to shutter their doors, especially as customer demand has jumped compared to 2020. However, other burnout remedies, particularly rethinking scheduling, can be implemented much more quickly — even in time to make the most of the 2021 holiday season. Try Self-Scheduling.

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How Injecting Empathy Into Your Shift Scheduling Can Help Attract and Retain Employees Through Worker Shortages

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When I Work serves tens of thousands of restaurants; here are some of our best tips on how putting employees’ needs first in your scheduling strategy can help retain and attract employees during this crucial hiring time and beyond. Use Scheduling Software. Implement Flexible Scheduling.

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How To Create a Fair Holiday Work Schedule For Restaurants

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Even in the pandemic year of 2020, before vaccines, we saw bumps in both sales and shifts scheduled in and around the tent pole holidays. Need a Holiday Work Schedule? Implementing a Holiday Work Schedule. Does Your Restaurant Need a Holiday Work Schedule? Table of Contents. Hire Additional Staff in Time.

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How to Get Multi-Unit Employee Scheduling Right the First Time

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Perfectly staffed, and you're under target with productivity through the roof—a perfect schedule. But without the right tools, it'll take long nights and countless cups of coffee to organize the moving pieces of multi-location employee scheduling for your restaurant. Challenges of Scheduling Teams Across Locations.

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Restaurant Insiders on 2020 Lessons Learned, Part Two

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Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry insiders for their perspection on 2020: What lessons did you learn and what do you feel the restaurant industry learned this year? In 2020, Uber Eats expanded their network of supported restaurants to 500,000 from 220,000 in 2019, and gross bookings from $14.5

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MRM Franchise Feed: Modular Chicken and 2020 Year-End Results

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The first restaurant is scheduled to be installed in Saginaw, Texas this month with an expected opening in March, with two more installations in the pipeline for the first half of the year in Snyder and Refugio, Texas. INAA will develop 10 restaurants in the Dallas-Fort Worth market, with the first location scheduled to open this year.

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How Pita Way Schedules 100+ Employees and Crushes Task Lists with 7shifts

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Scheduling 100 employees across 10 locations ??. To make the schedule there, she would “make it up on my iPad with my Apple pencil and kind of fill it out that way every day,” says Megges. I began to have to ask myself, “Are [store managers] scheduling effectively ? Are [store managers] even concerned about what their labor is?