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What is a Restaurant’s Front Of House (FOH) – Everything You Need To Know

The Restaurant Times

Front-of-house (FOH) refers to all activities and settings a patron will experience while dining at a restaurant, including the lobby and dining area. Hence, your restaurant’s front-of-the-house staff members should always maintain a high standard of personal hygiene and present a polished, welcoming image.

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Despite Improved 2024 Outlook, Labor, and Other Risks May Drag Restaurants Down

Modern Restaurant Management

It should encourage managers to tighten their practices in 2024, starting with fine-tuning and documenting policies, and training to help avert over-serving. Insurers are adding wage and hour exclusions to policies and reducing limits in response to class-action litigation filed by servers and other front-of-house staff.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

The documents released today will help small businesses seek forgiveness at the conclusion of the eight week covered period, which begins with the disbursement of their loans. Maintaining a distinct separation between front-of-house and back-of-house. Creating a buffered, contactless front-of-house.

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As Restaurants Reopen, Many Are Struggling to Find Employees

EATER

Worries about the pandemic, slow business, and fewer jobs for servers are all creating obstacles to rehiring When the COVID-19 pandemic forced one Miami restaurant to shut its doors in mid-March, its management laid off 47 of their 55 employees. As such, there is no work available for bartenders and servers. Shutterstock.

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How to Manage Multiple Restaurants and Locations

7 Shifts

Whichever way you go, remember that for every new restaurant you open, you'll need to conduct any necessary market research and document your planning process with a business plan and a feasibility study. Restaurant communication tools make it possible for you to share important documents with any or all of your employees from the locations.

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When It Comes to Reopening, Restaurant Owners and Diners Are ‘Out of Practice’

EATER

We were having trouble finding people for both front of house and back of house. Pre-pandemic, for a full house, we used to have six to seven chefs in the kitchen, and now we have four; we used to have six to seven servers on the floor, and now we have four. Michael Schall : “It’s tough in New York.

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David Chang’s Memoir Fails to Account for the Trauma He Caused Me

EATER

This is, of course, classic Chang: to lean into the obvious, to embrace it, and, in the process, to render the accompanying criticism pointless, whether it’s his well-documented love of Bud Light or his passionate embrace of Domino’s pizza. He’s older and wiser, he wants us to know — a cliché, but he really means it.