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Mastering Worker Classification: Seven Essential Tips for Restaurant Owners

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Increased scrutiny and audits : Misclassification issues can trigger audits and increased scrutiny from regulatory agencies. Communication : Record key communications that demonstrate the worker’s level of control and independence. Facing an audit or investigation. Also see Instructions to Form 8952.

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Nine Critical HR and Payroll Steps to Prepare Your Restaurant for 2025

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Communicating Changes : Share changes in team meetings or one-on-ones to make sure everyone understands and has easy access to the updated version. Auditing Classifications : Double-check exempt versus nonexempt statuses for all employees to avoid costly fines and incorrect paychecks and tax withholdings.

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Outdated Health and Safety Checks Are Holding QSRs Back

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By modernizing employee task management, quick service restaurants (QSRs) can streamline routine health and safety audits. Ensure Routine Health and Safety Audits Run Smoothly Outdated processes, like pen and paper audits, can make health and safety checks a tiresome, time-consuming task with room for human error.

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Stay Ahead of the Danger: Proactive Food Safety Strategies for Restaurant Managers

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Regularly audit your suppliers’ practices and request documentation to confirm that they’re still in compliance. This should outline steps for documenting complaints, investigating potential sources, and communicating the outbreak to health authorities. Communicate this with the health department ASAP.

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Six Important Steps Restaurants Should Take to Build a Strong Food Safety Culture

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Luckily, there are proven ways to help build a solid, positive food safety culture, including boosting trust, improving communication, educating employees, and relying on tech tools, including Artificial Intelligence. Improve Communication Effective communication is vital in establishing and maintaining a strong food safety culture.

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Managing Risk and Protecting Your Brand

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At its base, strengthening your food safety culture requires great communication, ongoing training and reminders, and an incentive-based system to build collaboration instead of a punitive system, which often compels employees to do the minimum. Increase Communication and Distribute Updated Policies Quickly and Efficiently.

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Four Major Benefits of Tech Tools to Elevate Safety and Quality

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Increasingly, restaurants are using tech tools to conduct regular self-assessments, which supplement in-person and remote audits. Self-audits can (and should) be implemented more frequently than third-party audits as part of your restaurant’s continuous quality initiative.