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Prime Costs: Understanding and Application for Restaurants

Synergy Suite

Front-of-House (FOH) Labor: FOH staff includes servers, bartenders, hosts/hostesses, and buspersons who interact directly with customers and provide service. Managing labor costs requires optimizing staff schedules, ensuring efficient staffing levels during peak hours, and monitoring employee productivity.

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6 Critical Restaurant Manager Responsibilities For Efficient Operations

The Restaurant Times

A manager must ensure that both sides are running together in harmony, without any glitches. Furthermore, a manager should also handle any supply chain issues and the procurement of raw materials. Thus, the focus of the restaurant manager should not only be on hiring but on employee retention as well.

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Virtual Acceleration, Raising the Bar and Insult Monitor

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of MRM News Bites features a double dose from US Foods, SpotOn Transact, DoorDash Kitchens, Virtual Restaurant Consulting, Tripleseat and Gather, wagamama, Toast, The Gluten Intolerance Group, Instawork and StaffMate Online, Procurant and Yellofin, Sift, 7shifts, ParTech, Revel Systems and Como, Kabbage, Bluecrew and Cuboh.