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20 Restaurant Skills You'll Quickly Learn on the Job (Updated)

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Health, Allergen, and Food Safety Training and Certifications. Examples include a TIPS certification , ServSafe Allergen , or a local accredited restaurant safety course. Cooks and back-of-house employees tend to work with inventory management software and kitchen display technology. Cross-contamination. Undercooking.

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Managing Inventory – and Your Time

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Managing Inventory — and Your Time . Aside from the cost of the items themselves, there are many expenses associated with managing inventory. In order to maintain the highest-possible level of profitability, proper inventory management is vital. Inventory management is an inherently reactive piece of the business.

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How to Achieve Accurate Forecasting

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Inventory Management and Prep Planning. Managed prep planning” is the science of purchasing the right inventory and managing kitchen production using analysis and calculation. It helps avoid the trap of buying in bulk to get a discount, only to end up with inventory that goes bad before it can be used. read more.

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The Rise of Food Allergies – and How to Keep Your Guests Safe and Happy

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require emergency medical attention from contact with a food allergen. Accurate allergen information is critical to guarantee your guests’ safety. Servers who may be well-versed in one iteration of a dish may find themselves in a tight spot if a change has been made but nutritional or allergen data hasn’t been updated.

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Offsetting Rising Labor Costs with Menu, Purchasing, and Inventory Excellence

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As you work to increase your profitability, two areas to explore are recipe and menu engineering, and purchasing and inventory optimization. Optimized Purchasing and Inventory. What it is: There are many ways to streamline the purchasing and inventory process. Offsetting Rising Labor Costs. Menu Engineering. We can help.

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Meet the Villains Part One: The Busywork Beast

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With mobile-optimized systems and easy-to-use solutions for things like inventory management, recipe and menu engineering, and managing schedules, your team will have more time to focus on revenue-generating tasks, and will spend less time tethered to the back office with mindless busywork. You’re not the first to meet this foe.

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How Chatbots are Revolutionizing the Restaurant Industry

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Customers can now interact with a digital or virtual assistant to make their meal selection, get information about menu items ( such as allergens ), place orders or make reservations, and receive notifications when orders are ready for pick-up. If you got value from this blog post, don’t forget to share it on your social media accounts.