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Why Your Restaurant Needs Front-of-House Automation Workflows

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurants are making use of workflow automation to increase efficiency in numerous ways inlcuding customer service automation and sales and marketing automation. Automating customer service tasks helps to improve the customer experience. 65 percent of customer service experts say that most feedback-gathering is automated.

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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. The FOH staff greets and receives customers and relays their requests.

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Press Release BPN Solutions & Saba Hospitalty

eHotelier

Integrating the two technologies allows in-room guests to make requests through SABA Hospitality’s interactive guest services platform, and for those requests to be automatically forwarded to the relevant resolver department Hotel services, amenities, maintenance, as well as Housekeeping requests, now no longer require intervention from front-of-house (..)

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Rocco Forte Hotels director becomes Gold Service Scholarship trustee

Hotel Owner

Lydia Forte, group director of food and beverage at Rocco Forte Hotels, has recently joined the Gold Service Scholarship board of trustees. In her role, Forte will support existing trustees to help shape and direct the future of the industry’s only dedicated scholarship for front-of-house professionals.

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Death by a Thousand Service Fees

EATER

Lille Allen/Eater After years of artificially low menu prices, service fees feel like an inevitable, annoying part of dining out now If you’re the type of diner who regularly eats at restaurants, you’ve almost assuredly noticed a “service fee” tacked on to your check at one establishment or another.

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Food Service Trends to Know in 2024

Restaurant Engine

Incorporating food service trends brings in returning customers to see what’s new. In this article, we take a broad look at food service trends to know in 2024. In this article, we take a broad look at food service trends to know in 2024. Many cities have companies providing composting services to restaurants.

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Why 4 Restaurants Opt for a Service Charge Instead of Tips

7 Shifts

Located in a market with a focus on Latin American businesses, what sets Destino apart (aside from inventive cocktails) is the note under the dessert menu: “In lieu of tipping, we add a 20% service charge to each order to support a professional wage for our entire team. Table of Contents What is a service charge?

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