Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 25, 2023

The first is communication technology, like paging to communicate to guests or back of house communications for personnel and management. For instance, a restaurant with a smaller footprint may not need a paging or staff communication system, but it will always need background music.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In addition, AI can be used to automate and improve many back-of-house processes such as sales forecasting, purchasing, inventory, scheduling, and accounting. Looking forward to 2024, operators should prioritize owning their data to stay in communication with loyal customers and offer promotions for repeat business.

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Synergy Suite

MARCH 20, 2024

Front of House vs. Back of House When you walk into a restaurant, you might immediately notice the friendly hostess greeting you at the door and the waitstaff bustling about to take orders and deliver food. This is the front of the house, where the customer-facing actions happen.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 12, 2021

Giving workers mobile communication tools increases retention in several ways: Empowers workers by giving them access to real-time communication to help them perform their jobs better. Gives front-of-house teams the resources to provide better customer service. ” Digital Communication Can Increase Customer Loyalty.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 22, 2021

Communicate Safe Work Environments. Operators can help ease these employees back into work by over communicating the safety of their environments and the benefits of jobs, overall. Back-of-house staff will always appeal to that workforce. Communicate that, too. Let’s look at a few ideas.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Communicate Clearly. For this to happen, there needs to clear, consistent communication between various parties. While it’s likely that your restaurant’s kitchen staff is adequately trained in creating allergen-friendly dishes, it still helps to ensure that all communication is as clear as possible. Back of House.

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InnQuest

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Housekeeping: Housekeeping is responsible for maintaining the cleanliness and orderliness of guest rooms, public areas, and back-of-house spaces. Effective communication and resolution strategies are pivotal. Regularly inspect guest rooms, public areas and back-of-house spaces for wear and tear.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 1, 2022

Providing the restaurant’s team with tools that streamline operations and create efficiencies, keeps them front of house, enabling them to do what they do best: make delicious food, build and work on great teams, and provide a superior guest experience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The best part is, if you’re leveraging BYOD for other back-of-house operations, you can also use it to easily implement a flexible self-scheduling application. If you’re new to the concept of BYOD touchless technology for back-of-house operations, there are a few important considerations to keep in mind.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The importance of (and need for) managers’ frontline leadership spans both back-of-house and front-of-house, extending from the kitchen when cooks need help to the dining room handling guests’ needs. Respondents were a mix of front-of-house and back-of-house employees in 41 U.S.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 1, 2021

As Henry’s reservation date approaches, your restaurant needs a robust piece of technology that allows you to communicate with Henry and Henry to communicate with you if he needs to modify his reservation. Communicate with other technology in your restaurant. Back-of-House.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 24, 2022

When properly deployed, they can transform the employee experience by improving daily operations, syncing front-of-house and back-of-house communication and execution, and delivering a memorable dining experience that won’t send staff to the walk-in cooler for a good cry.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 24, 2022

Communicate. It’s important that front-of-house and back-of-house staff members have clear lines of communication with you and with each other. Restaurants can be busy, scattered places. Many employees don’t feel comfortable coming to their supervisor with challenges in the workplace.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Role of AI in Front of House. AI Assistants : Conversational AI can assist customers in communicating with restaurant systems for booking a table, adding a guest to a waitlist, ordering meals, or even answering common questions like ‘do you have vegan food as well? Role of AI in Back of House.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2021

That means your back-of-house employees will need every advantage they can find. A fully integrated, cloud-based POS and kitchen display system allows front-of-house staff to submit orders and multiple back-of-house staff members to access those orders without any physical contact. 86 Paper Chits.

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7 Shifts

MARCH 23, 2022

With their original methods of scheduling, communication among staff and management was disconnected. Servers and cashiers had their own text group and that's how they would trade shifts or communicate,” says Buck. With 7shifts, communication between staff and their managers is simple. Top-down communication was difficult, too.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Whether it's personalizing the drive-through experience or reliably managing store hours, a strong network can power the restaurant management tools and apps that QSRs need to streamline front- and back-of-house operations, enhance dining experiences, and keep guests happy. The app is a vital tool for customers and employees.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 10, 2021

In the past, kitchens worked by a paper ticket system, which was handwritten by the waitstaff and passed to the back-of-house (BOH) staff. That means that waitstaff can digitally communicate with the BOH without losing the ticket itself. From there, an API connects to your front-and-back-of-house to communicate the order.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 18, 2020

Maintaining a distinct separation between front-of-house and back-of-house. Creating a buffered, contactless front-of-house. Creating clear and consistent communications with employees and customers to boost efficiency, morale and consumer sentiment.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Particularly impacted by the staffing shortage, restaurants are struggling to beat the labor crisis, with staffing shortages felt in both back-of-house and front-of-house staff. Although employment numbers are on the upswing, employment at eating and drinking establishments was still 1.5

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Hotel Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The biggest part of it is communication,” she said. And that’s what core is really going to give you when it comes to that communication piece and knowing what’s going on.” “And I was like, ‘How great would it be to have a system to warn what he’s about to walk into before he actually gets the hotel?’

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Les Roches

AUGUST 10, 2023

Depending on the type of hospitality and tourism business, front-of-house roles typically require a combination of customer service and technical skills. What are back-of-house positions? If you’re interested in managerial roles, it’s a good idea to consider a master’s degree.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 15, 2021

By improving customer loyalty and increasing revenue through the smart use of technology from the public-facing part of the business all the way to the back-of-house prep, sourcing, and staffing. Don’t Confuse Customer Communications with Customer Loyalty. One precedes the other.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 4, 2022

It was definitely high-stress at first but we worked together as a team to communicate. For a team to accomplish a common goal they must have communication as it is a key factor in relationship building all around. Guests were coming in and requesting the clams we didn't have. Chef Patel. Chef Butterfield. Photo by Ruben Cabrera.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2021

With more options to work outside of the hospitality industry, operators must offer employees more scheduling flexibility, facilitate transparent communication between management and team members, and avoid overworking staff. The digitization of the kitchen and back-of-house continues to accelerate.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

A recent survey of job holders – including front-of-house and back-of-house restaurant workers – showed that 55 percent were planning to switch jobs, citing “lack of recognition” as the number one reason for the change. These acts of recognition go further than you may think.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Salt & Straw in Portland made “Saltie Salutes” part of their internal communication so employees can send each other recognition for jobs well done. When teams participate in non-work activities together, it increases trust, which in turn boosts morale and improves communication.

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Boutique Hotel News

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Stephen Walker, principal at KSL Capital Partners, said that the industry had reached “a turning point in realising the importance of employee culture” and that there’s an increasing awareness to balance front-of-house and back-of-house rates of pay. “If

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 8, 2020

One former Darden back-of-house trainer describes it as a “checks and balances system,” allowing businesses to track where health related problems could have stemmed from. Again, you are providing the guest with more control over their environment and communicating an effort to reduce the spread of germs. ”

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Hotel Business

MAY 11, 2023

SMS text messaging is an important communication channel for guests prior to checking in and during their stay. This allows hoteliers to personalize information and recommendations and it opens a direct line of communication between the guest and hotel staff. Is an omni-channel tech approach important?

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SiteMinder

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This training covers a wide range of areas including customer service, communication, problem-solving, and operational management. To develop effective interpersonal communication skills for better interaction with guests and team members. To enhance cross-departmental communication, ensuring a seamless guest experience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Technology also helps bridge communication between restaurant management and staff. Having a retail management tool with a mobile application, for instance, reduces the need for wait staff to move around when communicating with each other. Moreover, by eliminating unnecessary tasks, staff can focus more on the quality of their work.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 23, 2024

Step 8: Establish a Team Communication Strategy Despite all of your careful prep and consideration, there will always be at least one change that has to be made after the schedule is “final.” The best way to make sure it doesn't trickle down into more problems is to establish a team communication strategy for shift trades and changes.

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Hotel Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In the latest Hotel Business Hot Topics session, “Improve your assets: Increase ROI with the right technology infrastructure,” in partnership with Corning, panelists discussed the importance of technology, both guest-facing and back-of-house, and why making sure it is supported with the right infrastructure is essential.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Back-of-House and Front-of-House. Establish Clear Lines of Communication. Back-of-House and Front-of-House are an even split. 7shifts data shows no large discrepancy between turnover rates in the front- and back-of-house. Front of House Positions: 41% turnover rate.

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Hotel Business

JUNE 15, 2023

Most hotels will hold on to their PBX systems for as long as possible, and this can lead to the system ultimately failing and leaving the hotel without any communications, internally and externally,” he told Hotel Business. Unfortunately, these failures normally happen at an inopportune time. “It

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Hotel Business

JULY 25, 2023

While PBX systems utilizing VoIP networks are ideal for general hotel communication, emergency communications paths within the elevator must meet unique code requirements and require special attention as it pertains to risk/liability reduction. Consider these shortcomings: Power outages: Elevator code requires a 4-hour battery backup.

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