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Four Tactics Restaurant Managers Can Implement Now to Improve Employee Engagement

Modern Restaurant Management

But instead of relying on their memory, consider creating short, instructional videos – on food safety, sanitation, inventory, etc. Ordering inventory, completing daily checklists, implementing safety procedures, managing reservations – the list of tedious and time-consuming tasks for restaurant owners and managers goes on and on.

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Safely Reopening Restaurants in the Era of COVID-19

Modern Restaurant Management

For example, most closed restaurants may not maintain regularly scheduled pest control service—providing harborage to cockroaches or rodents that thrive in dark, undisturbed recesses of a vacated food facility. All of which could occur during prolonged periods of non-operation.

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10 Top Restaurant Technologies To Evolve Your Business

7 Shifts

Delivery, scheduling, inventory management, reservations, and guest management have seen technological advancements over the past few years, and it's just the beginning. Restaurant Employee Scheduling Software. That's where restaurant scheduling software comes in handy. 7shifts Restaurant Scheduling Software.

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Checklist For Reopening Your Restaurant

Modern Restaurant Management

However, as long as you keep the spotlight on food safety – sanitization, employee health monitoring and personal hygiene, and social distancing – your restaurant won’t be a hub of contagion. Keep customers from congregating in waiting areas by adopting a reservations-only business model. Maintain a Cleaning Schedule.

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Coronavirus: Restaurants Respond

Modern Restaurant Management

In response to Coronavirus concerns: Danny Meyer tweeted that The Modern would be closed for a day and every inch sanitized after a guest tested positive for COVID-19, despite being told by the NYS Health Commissioner says no risk of transmission; “Team & guests come first,” the hospitality leader concluded.

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5 Technology Innovations Your Restaurant Should Be Using

Restaurant Engine

Your customers can pay quickly and conveniently without pulling out their sanitizer wipes. #3: 3: Online Reservation System. So, how do people make a reservation for a table at your restaurant? If reservations are only available through a phone call, it’s time to change up your technology.

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How to Plan Your Restaurant's Grand Re-Opening Event

7 Shifts

A seating capacity goal (such as 100% of the allowed seating capacity) or a reservation booking goal A revenue goal—such as a volume number or percentage compared to pre-COVID A follower goal on social media from gaining new interest in your restaurant A return visit goal for diners who return to your restaurant after the grand opening 2.

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