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Back of House Restaurant Guide: Integrating FOH and BOH for Seamless Operations 

Apicbase

Additionally, the BOH handles food safety and restaurant administration. The back of the house supports the front of the house (FOH), enabling the customer-facing team to focus on serving a memorable experience. The roles of BOH and FOH staff are intertwined yet distinct. Food safety. Cost control. HACCP protocols.

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How to Effectively Sanitize & Clean Your Restaurant

7 Shifts

There’s nothing better than a tidy workstation and clean range hood before service hour; and the post-shift scrub down of the kitchen can be a form of meditation for stressed out chefs. Create (or update) your cleaning task list for both FOH and BOH staff to double down on sanitization in your restaurant. Guest and employee restrooms.

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Managing Your Restaurant’s Maintenance & Sanitization During COVID-19

7 Shifts

Consider specialty sanitization services In addition to hourly sanitization of all high-contact surfaces (FOH and BOH), ensuring you have access to professional specialty sanitization will provide more confidence and peace of mind to your staff and guests. A restaurant’s health code depends on it!

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7 Reasons Why Restaurants Should Start Using QR Codes

The Rail

Contactless menus , a popular ordering style that enhances safety, utilize QR codes that customers can easily scan with their smartphone cameras. This convenient and contactless approach is becoming increasingly popular among customers in a post-COVID world, and effectively streamlines the ordering process while ensuring safety.

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Restaurant Kitchen Staff is Key to Food Cost Savings

Restaurant365

Training your store-level managers and your kitchen staff about food waste reduction is critical to improving overall Cost of Goods Sold (CoGS). Preventing food waste from happening in the first place is the best thing you can do to save on your food cost. 12 tips to keep your kitchen staff focused on food waste reduction.

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What is Back-of-House at a Restaurant – Everything You Need To Know

The Restaurant Times

For example, you can streamline kitchen processes, optimize inventory management , provide staff training, and implement scheduling systems by focusing on your BOH. Additionally, most kitchens have a rigid hierarchy in the back of the house, with each employee performing a particular duty. The aim is to avoid a collision.

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How to Onboard Restaurant Staff: A New Hire Checklist for Restaurant Employees

Touch Bistro

Go over important topics like: Job responsibilities COVID-19 safety procedures Hygiene Uniform Systems and tech Attendance Customer service Security – including your restaurant loss prevention strategy Opening and closing shift procedures. Studies have found that 50% of millennials haven’t read their employee handbooks. Clarification.

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