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What is Back-of-House at a Restaurant – Everything You Need To Know

The Restaurant Times

The back-of-house (BOH) at a restaurant is the behind-the-scenes area of the restaurant — it works like an engine and keeps the restaurant going. While it is not visible to the customers, the restaurant’s services get hampered without back-of-house. Why is Back of House Important?

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How to Effectively Sanitize & Clean Your Restaurant

7 Shifts

While some restaurants don’t speak out about their restaurant’s cleaning procedures, others have detailed their exact sanitization requirements on social media to help customers feel safe. Create a sanitization & cleaning checklist ?? Understand cleaning vs sanitizing ?? Sanitize: Use an EPA-approved sanitizing solution.

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How to Create an Allergy-Friendly Environment at Your Restaurant

Modern Restaurant Management

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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Cleanliness in the Restaurant: Reality and Perception

Modern Restaurant Management

Now is the time to get ahead and make sure you are equipped to adequately address what customers will likely be worried about most: restaurant cleanliness and sanitation. Sanitizing – reducing, not killing, the occurrences and growth of bacteria, viruses and fungi on a surface. from the surface.

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Back to the ?Grind? ? Restaurant Reopening Guidelines and PPP Update

Modern Restaurant Management

Adapting with a tighter, more focused menu to allow kitchens to better plan labor and prep needs and manage enhanced sanitation routines. Maintaining a distinct separation between front-of-house and back-of-house. Creating a buffered, contactless front-of-house.

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5 Reasons You need Platform Restaurant Management Software (Sponsored)

Modern Restaurant Management

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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Consumers Welcome Some Restaurant Automation, Reject Others

Modern Restaurant Management

Whereas most global consumers think it’s acceptable for QSRs to automate ordering, checkout, serving, and even sanitation tasks, the majority do not find this acceptable for table service. Operators of table service restaurants in particular will have to be careful about how much automation they introduce, and what kind.