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COVID-19 Best Practices for Restaurants: Navigating Coronavirus for Staff & Managers

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Restaurant owners and operators are encouraged to review the online resources their state and local health departments have provided for the latest information about COVID-19 in their community, and take extra precautionary steps in the workplace to protect the safety and wellbeing of staff and guests. Practice proper restaurant sanitization.

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How to Create an Allergy-Friendly Environment at Your Restaurant

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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

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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. Your contactless ordering and payment platform should allow you to get a holistic view of customer and sales information.

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11 Tips for Restaurants to Get Back to Business

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Food safety sanitation procedures are more important than ever to combat the novel coronavirus. This may include line cooks standing six feet away from each other, tables moved to proper social distances, diners sitting outdoors only, use of disposable menus and placemats, and/or servers wearing masks. No exceptions!

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Touchless Payment: The New Reality of Paying at a Dine-In Restaurant

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With strict state guidelines in place, restaurants are quickly adapting their hospitality experience to accommodate new health and safety protocols, including the physical distancing between people, the prudent use of sanitizer and facemasks, and all things touchless – including the payment process.

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What Does Social Distancing Mean for Social Businesses Like Restaurants?

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Up the restaurant’s hygiene and cleanliness standards: fully sanitize tables, menus and chairs after each reservation. Use a system where the greeter informs the guests of where their table is and then have the person leaving the menus put their hand up so they know where to go.

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Unique Challenges and Considerations for Restaurants As They Reopen Their Doors

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Share that you have enhanced protocols for sanitization. Let them know if you spent money on having your air vents sanitized. Inform them of the training you have provided to your staff on these measures. Ask employees to inform you of any concerns they might have in advance of their return to work.