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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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How Small but Mighty Restaurants Can Optimize Data to Muscle Up Growth

Modern Restaurant Management

Consider tapping into the treasure trove of customer information your POS platform contains. Remember: access to data can glean insights to help you make better-informed decisions. Gather information to help you innovate processes. Gather information to help you innovate processes.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

Nearly every restaurant in the United States relies on a Point of Sale (POS) system for the majority of its front-of-house operations. Not only can that become frustrating for your guests, but it can also make in-house operations much more difficult. That system needs access to the internet in order to keep functioning.

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Death by a Thousand Service Fees

EATER

To make the case for service fees, many restaurateurs have insisted that they’re a way to make pay more equitable between front-of-house workers like hosts and servers and kitchen workers like line cooks and dishwashers. Now, the fees have inspired a lawsuit at Los Angeles hot spot Jon & Vinny’s.

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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 Restaurants Deliver Great Hospitality with Contactless Ordering and Payment

Modern Restaurant Management

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 involve a significant change in front-of-house operations for your guests and your 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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