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7 Kitchen Management Tips to Guarantee Back of House Serenity

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Yes, the back of house (BOH) is where food is prepped, cooked, and plated, but it’s also where chaos can quickly ensue if roles, responsibilities, and tasks aren’t communicated well. Simply put, if things aren’t running well in the kitchen, restaurant staff and diners alike often suffer.

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Our Wage Models are Broken

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The Tip Pooling Model After the FLSA updated its guidance in 2018, it became legal to share tips across hourly employees, as long as they’re all paid the state’s full minimum wage. This isn’t an easy conversation to have. Rethinking Wages: Where to Start? Rethinking Wages: Where to Start? That’s where RAISE comes in. But they are important.

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10 Top Restaurant Technologies To Evolve Your Business

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After that, the most popular back-office technologies were accounting software (52%, up from 31% in 2018) and payroll software (50%, up from 28% in 2018), according to a study from Toast. Your POS system reduces ordering errors, increases front-of-house and back-of-house efficiency, and helps you control inventory.

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Surprising Ways that Tech Can Help Evolve Your Restaurant

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After that, the most popular back-office technologies were accounting software (52%, up from 31% in 2018) and payroll software (50%, up from 28% in 2018), according to a study from Toast. The first technologies that restaurants often invest in are the cloud-based point of sale (POS) systems and payroll processing.

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How Katie Button redesigned their wage model to adapt post-pandemic

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And I started as a server, so I started off working in the front of the house and learning, and they were the only ones who would give a PhD dropout with no previous experience a job. And we opened a Spanish tapas restaurant because my husband Felix is from Spain, and he's our front of house service guy and also idea man.

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‘Bring the Dining Room Experience to the Windows’

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Joining Mood in 2018, he currently oversees the QSR team, focused on North America Account Management efforts. The personalization of drive-thrus began internally across many brands a few years back. How is QSR ownership changing? Every minute! We continue to see mass transfer of ownerships across many big brands. Great question.

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For Restaurant Owners, Cybersecurity is a People Problem 

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While beneficial in many ways, housing mass amounts of data leaves restaurants wide open to potential breaches — and hackers aren’t always the culprit. If you’re like me, chances are you’ve probably ordered food online or through an app at least once in the last couple of weeks.