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How to Reduce your Restaurant Tech Stack

7 Shifts

7shifts makes it easy to post job listings to Indeed , track and rank applicants, manage application information, and handle onboarding, tax forms, and documentation—all in one app. Not to mention the 12 hours a month in savings from manually tracking employee documents and certifications.

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Confessions of a Tableside Flambéur

EATER

Lille Allen/Eater A former fine dining server dishes on how the flambé, a dying convention of French haute cuisine, became the ultimate tableside flex I can feel sweat soaking through the armpits of my $5,000 Tom Ford suit and a nagging itch along the starched collar of my custom-fitted tuxedo shirt. Flambés can actually be very dangerous.

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Navigating Colorado's Tip Laws: A Guide for Employers

7 Shifts

For servers at restaurants, refilling condiments and making coffee directly supports their tipped work; cleaning bathrooms and doing building maintenance does not. Only those employees who customarily receive tips (bartenders, barbacks, servers, runners, bussers, and sometimes hosts) can participate in the tip pool.

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Navigating Colorado's Tip Laws: A Guide for Employers

7 Shifts

For servers at restaurants, refilling condiments and making coffee directly supports their tipped work; cleaning bathrooms and doing building maintenance does not. Only those employees who customarily receive tips (bartenders, barbacks, servers, runners, bussers, and sometimes hosts) can participate in the tip pool.

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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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Tech to Trash Can – How Technology Is Redefining Food Waste

Modern Restaurant Management

Not much can be done about errors caused by customers, and training servers to listen attentively and cooks to set timers and stay focused can address internal errors. Restaurants categorize the majority of food waste into three buckets: prep/portioning, customer ordering or cooking errors, and spoilage.

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What Should a Return to Work Program Include?

Modern Restaurant Management

Documents for internal case management. For example, if a worker was previously a server and suffered an ankle injury, perhaps he or she can complete tasks behind the scenes, like helping take phone or online orders to stay off their feet. A review of injured worker capabilities and how they align with their tasks.

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