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Reduce Training Retirements & Manual Tasks With These Three Automation Best Practices

Modern Restaurant Management

Today’s restaurants face obstacles on many fronts. More specifically, automation best practices can ease training requirements and reduce manual tasks, helping restaurants thrive in a challenging environment. Streamline Employee Onboarding and Training. Simplify Front of House Processes.

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Elements of Effective Kitchen Employee Training

Service that Sells

Training Your Kitchen Employees Need Training is key to ensuring your kitchen employees can handle the pressure that comes with working in a restaurant. Kitchen employee training must cover a wide variety of topics. Kitchen employees should take the same HR training as the rest of your staff.

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Why Training is the Key to Accurate Messaging About Gluten-Free Foodservice

Modern Restaurant Management

Although restaurants are increasingly interested in meeting the needs of gluten-free consumers, there’s plenty of room for improvement in the messaging used to communicate about gluten-free options. Restaurants often use ambiguous terms like gluten-friendly, gluten-removed or no gluten to describe their gluten-free dishes.

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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. The behavior of your staff makes the biggest difference in the quality of your restaurant’s service. How to Manage Front of House (FOH)?

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How 4 Restaurant Managers Hire, Train, and Retain

7 Shifts

Team management is a top concern for restaurants these days. 37% of restaurant operators say employee retention and productivity is one of their priorities for 2023. Given the circumstances, restaurants are looking for better ways to attract and retain good talent. The pandemic pushed a lot of people out of the industry.

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Six Strategies to Improve Restaurant Efficiency

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurant efficiency is the key to making a profit in an industry with thin margins and fierce competition. Inefficient restaurants are usually the result of a combination of, if not, all of the following factors: Bad stock management and rotation. Provide Customer Service Training. Untrained and unmotivated staff.

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Prioritize Mental Health: Strategies for Managing Stress in Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

Working in a restaurant is a marathon, not a sprint. Whether you work in the front of house or in the kitchen, the stressors of every shift can wear you down. Factors that can influence unhealthy coping strategies in the restaurant industry include: A culture that encourages substance use. Excessive workloads.