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

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Washing hands, avoiding touching eyes, mouth, face, properly sanitizing. Put sanitizing hand rub dispensers in prominent areas around the restaurant. Supply servers, hosts, and kitchen staff with gloves. Show cleanliness, like kitchen and servers wearing gloves, sanitizing the restaurant, etc.

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How to Create an Allergy-Friendly Environment at Your Restaurant

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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. Between Waitstaff and Kitchen Staff.

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Lessening Employee Anxiety as Restaurant Doors Open

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That includes social distancing, sanitation, masks, partitions and contactless payment and menus (or throwaways). Kitchens must be sanitized, per recommended guidelines. only bussers clear tables; only servers wipe down tables between seatings), and enhanced sanitation schedules. Calm, firm reinforcement of rules.

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Food Safety Never Takes a Holiday 

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Keep sanitizer levels at the proper concentration per the product instructions. Otherwise, surfaces may be wiped down, but will not be treated with the proper sanitizer levels to get rid of harmful bacteria that can cause illness. Cool foods rapidly to get out of the Temperature Danger Zone. Keep it Clean.

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How Advanced Technology Can Foster a Fair Environment Amid New Tipping Regulations

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To reduce the cost of labor, they can simply transfer more non-tipped responsibilities to the servers making $2.13 Why outsource a cleaning service to vacuum and sanitize the building overnight at $9 per hour, when you can have your front-house staff spend an extra hour cleaning at the beginning and end of their shifts?

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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. Have the servers leave the drinks at the front of the table and let guests grab them after the server has stood up. They should consider leaving menus at the table instead of having the server take them.

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‘Life Is All About Balance’

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Interviews range from baristas and servers to operations managers. Interviewees discuss their personal experiences during the ongoing pandemic, including losing their livelihoods, customers who refuse to wear masks, having to change procedures so the restaurant is safe and sanitized and more. People do not view serving as careers.

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