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How to Create an Allergy-Friendly Environment at Your Restaurant

Modern Restaurant Management

As a restaurant owner or manager, you should take it upon yourself to become familiar with common allergens so that you can later pass on this knowledge to your staff for a well-informed, allergen-friendly restaurant environment. Likewise, ensure that servers are trained to ask all customers about potential allergies when taking orders.

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How Technology Tools Help Restaurateurs Do More With Less

Modern Restaurant Management

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. Tech can also help your restaurant: 1.

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Three Things Your POS Can’t Do if You Lose Internet

Modern Restaurant Management

Without the internet, you would quickly find that data isn't being synched and information isn't being shared the way it should be. Let’s say your POS is offline; this has significantly increased the likelihood of order errors and miscommunication between front-of-house and back-of-house staff.

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The Next Generation of the Dining Experience

Modern Restaurant Management

Consumers are less forgiving than in the past when a server is not around to call for another round of drinks or to ask for the check. … its purpose is to augment restaurant flows, preserve meaningful guest/server interactions, improve efficiencies, and speed up the customer touchpoints like ordering and paying, when needed. .

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Who Is Most at Risk in a Restaurant?

EATER

Hosts, bartenders, servers, and any other front-of-house workers take the greatest risk by sharing indoor space with customers, who may or may not show symptoms even if they’re infected with COVID-19. There’s just not enough information to eliminate all risk. We’re in a fast-moving environment in terms of information.”

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Become the Best Manager You Can for Your Staff and Restaurant

Modern Restaurant Management

For front of house workers set goals on the number of turnovers of tables or good reviews. For back of house set goals on the time it takes to get food to the pass and out to customers. A customer will complain, the expo line will get backed up, a server may fall and drop an order. Set goals for your staff.

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How to Improve Team Communication with Restaurant Staff and Management

7 Shifts

Maybe one of your servers just called in sick at the last minute, your shipment of inventory containing all the ingredients for tonight's dinner special never showed up or the plumbing is acting up again. There are many working parts between the kitchen and server, and everything needs to be working seamlessly to ensure customer satisfaction.