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How to Create an Allergy-Friendly Environment at Your Restaurant

Modern Restaurant Management

Likewise, ensure that servers are trained to ask all customers about potential allergies when taking orders. Create a system that allows servers to easily and efficiently let the cooks know that there is a guest with an allergy, and have the kitchen prepare these dishes using separate cookware. Front of House.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

Adapting with a tighter, more focused menu to allow kitchens to better plan labor and prep needs and manage enhanced sanitation routines. Maintaining a distinct separation between front-of-house and back-of-house. Creating a buffered, contactless front-of-house. restaurant operations.

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Lessening Employee Anxiety as Restaurant Doors Open

Modern Restaurant Management

For FOH: Assure front of house staff that you are complying with or exceeding all regulatory local, state and federal rules and regulations. That includes social distancing, sanitation, masks, partitions and contactless payment and menus (or throwaways). Kitchens must be sanitized, per recommended guidelines.

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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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How Restaurants Can Remain Competitive in 2021

7 Shifts

diners prefer to view menus, order, and pay for their meal using their phones rather than interacting with servers during the pandemic. The traditional lineup of front of house and back of house is shifting, and will likely not go back to how it was before. There is simply less front of house staff right now.

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Open for Business: Expert Recommendations For Restaurant Safety In The COVID-19 Era.

The Restaurant Times

Right from the kitchen to the front-of-house operations, restaurant operators must strictly follow the guidelines set by the government and institute safety practices to ensure a safe and hygienic dining environment for their customers. . despite the staff sanitizing the entire restaurant at regular intervals. .

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10 Top Restaurant Technologies To Evolve Your Business

7 Shifts

Your POS system reduces ordering errors, increases front-of-house and back-of-house efficiency, and helps you control inventory. Modern POS systems also have handheld devices that eliminate the need for servers to go back and forth to a central location. The power of an integrated POS. Restaurant Task Management.