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18 Restaurant Manager Interview Questions to Assess Leadership and Operational Skills

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Hiring the right people can make or break your business. In this article: What strategies do you use to motivate and engage your restaurant employees? What interview questions do you ask when hiring new restaurant employees? How do you ensure compliance with food safety and hygiene regulations?

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2024 Emergency Planning for Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

How to Better Ensure You Won’t Need Your Fire Extinguisher The best response is to prevent a fire before it starts by updating and cleaning your kitchen equipment, ensuring rags and smoking materials are disposed of properly, investing in Class K extinguishers and finally 86ing flaming shots. This article is not a template.

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Restaurant Operations Management: A Guide for Restaurant Owners

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Effective labor management means hiring the right people, providing thorough training , creating efficient schedules, and building a culture that keeps employees engaged. Kitchen and Food Efficiency A well-run kitchen keeps food quality high and service times fast.

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A CHEF’S HARD DAY’S NIGHT

Culinary Cues

It sounded like an appropriate title for an article about life in the kitchen. Kitchen work ages us even though to many it is a calling, something that we love (most of the time). When you work in a kitchen, you know what it means to be exhausted at the end of a shift – especially when it’s 12 hours or more in length.

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The Not So Great Resignation: Unseen Risks and Mitigation of Costs

Modern Restaurant Management

The problem this article addresses is the trickle-down of the “great resignation.” A restaurant that fails to instruct the new members of its kitchen staff that knives are sent out weekly are more likely to see lacerations caused by the chef taking it upon him or herself to get that blade sharp.

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MR. MIYAGI WAS CORRECT

Culinary Cues

It shows you how the kitchen works and helps to qualify who the players are and what their roles might be. It is one of the most essential positions in the kitchen, operated by a person who is responsible for the single most expensive piece of equipment and one of the costliest inventories (China, flatware, glassware). Wax on, wax off.

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7 Restaurant Management Book Recommendations

7 Shifts

Topics: Hospitality; hiring and training staff; building workplace culture. ?? To achieve Enlightened Hospitality you need to hire “51 percenters with 5 core emotional skills.” While achieving Enlightened Hospitality may seem redundant while you only serve takeout, it should be a core value of your restaurant and hiring process.

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