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How to Create an Allergy-Friendly Environment at Your Restaurant

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Communicate Clearly. For this to happen, there needs to clear, consistent communication between various parties. Likewise, ensure that servers are trained to ask all customers about potential allergies when taking orders. Even if communication is crystal clear, disaster can happen if dishes aren’t properly handled.

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Restaurant Task Management: How to Communicate Tasks to Staff ??

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But the question remains— with a staff that changes size and personnel by the shift, what is the best way to set, communicate, and enforce restaurant task management to your staff? Recommended Reading: How to Effectively Sanitize & Clean Your Restaurant What is Restaurant Task Management?

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COVID-19 Best Practices for Restaurants: Navigating Coronavirus for Staff & Managers

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Washing hands, avoiding touching eyes, mouth, face, properly sanitizing. Put sanitizing hand rub dispensers in prominent areas around the restaurant. Supply servers, hosts, and kitchen staff with gloves. Show cleanliness, like kitchen and servers wearing gloves, sanitizing the restaurant, etc.

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Four Tactics Restaurant Managers Can Implement Now to Improve Employee Engagement

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Some of the most common impediments to employee engagement and retention include: insufficient or improper onboarding processes for new staff, ineffective or even chaotic communication with workers, and little or no acknowledgement of great performance at work. These lead to poor employee experience and often frustration among staff.

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Consumers Welcome Some Restaurant Automation, Reject Others

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Some diners are more open to robot servers at quick service restaurants (30 percent) and table service (10 percent), but are still in the minority. 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.

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What Does Social Distancing Mean for Social Businesses Like Restaurants?

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And communications is front and center, particularly for restaurants that might not be as well known for out of restaurant food. Up the restaurant’s hygiene and cleanliness standards: fully sanitize tables, menus and chairs after each reservation. In today's world, safety is the third leg of the stool.

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How Restaurants Deliver Great Hospitality with Contactless Ordering and Payment

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In this new environment, take steps to: Elevate your servers to guides. Be intentional about how servers greet and introduce your guests to your establishment now that the ordering and payment process has changed. Contactless ordering and payment platforms will make it easier for your guests to communicate with you.