7 Shifts

AUGUST 12, 2020

So far, 2020 has thrown marketing plans, advertising budgets, and restaurant growth out of the window. While these local favorites are great at attracting their neighbors to visit again and again, to out-of-towners, they’re just another restaurant that looks like it could do with some renovations. So, where do you start?

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Making Your Resume Stand Out. What those technologies are completely depends on the role, but here are a few of the more popular examples: Servers and front-of-house roles tend to familiarize themselves with point-of-sale (POS) technology, scheduling software , online ordering integrations, and perhaps even reservation software.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

If you're standing in line waiting to order the special of the night, the seasonal Panzanella Salad, you don't want to hear “86 the special”. Or, if you've worked in a restaurant as a chef, line cook, or as part of the FOH (front-of-house), you may have used this hospitality term yourself. Table of Contents. What does 86 mean?

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 31, 2024

The best restaurant managers take customer service a step further, recognizing regulars and personalizing service for a more memorable guest experience. Restaurant managers also either oversee or directly respond to online reviews. Managing a restaurant is a delicate routine—if we can even call it a routine.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

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. There’s a wide range of options available that take the entire process online. Examples of Restaurant Inventory Management Software.

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Deliverect

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Technologies like digital menus, QR codes , contactless ordering, and payment at the table suddenly became the norm. What we saw less of was the fun stuff like robotic cooks and waiters, AI-powered ordering systems, and drone delivery, as the industry focussed on getting through a tough year. What’s in store for 2021? Takeout is king.

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Deliverect

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Technologies like digital menus, QR codes , contactless ordering, and payment at the table suddenly became the norm. What we saw less of was the fun stuff like robotic cooks and waiters, AI-powered ordering systems, and drone delivery, as the industry focussed on getting through a tough year. What’s in store for 2021? Takeout is king.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

We also looked to see if the number of items ordered per receipt has stayed the same: they didn't. Guests are ordering fewer items and paying more for them. Either diners have switched to ordering the more expensive items off the menu, or we're seeing very strong inflation of prices on menus. per receipt. in 2019 and $99.50

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7 Shifts

DECEMBER 18, 2019

January is fast-approaching, and hot lunch spots will soon be back on the mind of every highschool and college student in your area. Want to capture the hungry, back-to-school lunch crowd for January? 33% of Canadians eat out for lunch most-often, not far behind the dinner crowd at 49%. Sounds good, doesn’t it?

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Then we started to tell our own story online. So what’s stopping you from taking the next step and future-proofing your business with all sorts of new technology? What do you use for back of house? We became a global media company. Our goal now is nothing less than to become the Amazon Prime of BBQ. Before my “Oh S**t!”

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7 Shifts

MAY 27, 2021

A contrast to the fixed restaurant schedule, the rotating schedule affords employees and managers a slew of advantages, such as the sharing of preferred shifts among staff and the chance for staff to take longer breaks from work. Restaurant schedules shuffle all the time. Table of Contents. What is a Rotating Schedule? Fixed Versus Rotating.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 2, 2024

The accounting process will seem less daunting once you understand what you need to do, know, and watch out for. When hiring restaurant accountants, your primary consideration should be those who understand the complexity of the food and beverage industry—both front-of-the-house and back-of-the-house operations and management.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

This is why, according to research from Sift , 62% of American restaurant guests fear data breaches in restaurants, and are often hesitant to order directly from restaurants that don't make them feel as though their data is safe. Table of Contents. The cost of restaurant cybersecurity. The cost of restaurant cybersecurity.

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Social Hospitality

MAY 6, 2020

Amidst the current COVID-19 pandemic, there is a lot of negativity online and in the news. Hotel Trundle has done a fantastic job of staying positive with their online presence. Four Seasons New York: Housing Healthcare Pros. Here are 10 inspirational ways the hospitality industry is embracing positivity during COVID-19.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 29, 2019

Menu Analysis: Analyzing Your Current Menu’s Profitability Before you make any changes to your menu, take the time to determine what’s working and what isn’t. Menu engineering can be simplified as the steps taken to increase the profitability of a restaurant menu. Typically, the practice is broken down into two segments: 1. What to do?

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Whether you’re managing multiple restaurants right now or are thinking about expanding your current business , this guide has everything you need to run more than one restaurant at once with success. Table of Contents. New Concept or Replicate? Create Consistency with Your Operations. Delegating Responsibilities. Keep Your Team Connected.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Digital platforms can help time-strapped operators address their historically difficult questions by minimizing operational complexity, giving their crews more time to assist guests, and providing staff with the freedom to accomplish more in both the front and back of the house. My staff can monitor orders from almost any location.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 7, 2020

Don’t fret if you’ve made hiring decisions based on other criteria; you can still keep your employees engaged, but it’s going to take some work. If you don’t have 7shifts yet, you can alternatively create a simple Google Form survey or a paper survey for employees to fill out after each shift. Why Care About Employee Engagement?

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 1, 2022

As brands scrambled to change their business models – whether through the adoption of touchless payments, delivery and curbside pickup, or the use of QR codes to access online menus – consumers were also forced to adapt their dining behaviors. And according to Technomic, Inc.,

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 20, 2020

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. We’re not alone — market research company Frost & Sullivan projects that online/mobile ordering will be a $200 billion dollar industry by 2025.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 13, 2023

Just as the pandemic fueled digital transformation via no-contact delivery apps, QR code menus, and digital ordering, restaurants challenged by lack of staffing will likely turn to technology like Artificial Intelligence (AI) to alleviate pain points. Demand for Dining Out Isn’t Going Anywhere.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Dark kitchens or virtual kitchens––real places staffed with non-ectoplasmic people—bring efficiencies to running a restaurant by providing off-site commissary services for delivery orders. Growth for most, after all, isn’t walking through the front door, it’s coming in online. It might not be.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 14, 2020

To add resources to these guides, reach out to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com with news. The National Restaurant Association launched an industry grassroots education and engagement resource available online at RestaurantsAct.com.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 2, 2019

But with this new opportunity comes a new set of challenges, not the least of which is figuring out how to manage restaurant staff. We reached out to a restaurant manager in an internationally-known restaurant to get her advice on managing a restaurant staff, and provided a few insights of our own. What are their goals and challenges?

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Proper staff training keeps your team knowledgeable, confident, and able to provide the kind of customer service that keeps guests coming back. Front-of-house (FOH) staff, like servers and hosts, will need customer service training, upselling techniques, and communication skills. Focused training also speeds up the onboarding process.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 13, 2021

Many restaurants invested in technology in 2020 that improved their off-premise capabilities, such as online ordering, delivery partnerships, and menu revisions. Choosing to focus only on ordering and point of sale systems is like only finishing the middle of the puzzle. However, costs are not returning to pre pandemic levels.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 15, 2021

The ingrained customer behavior over the past year, delivery, mobile orders, curbside pick-up, will likely continue. By improving customer loyalty and increasing revenue through the smart use of technology from the public-facing part of the business all the way to the back-of-house prep, sourcing, and staffing.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 23, 2020

You can capitalize on peoples’ cabin fever during this time of self quarantine by promoting your order pickup services. Try offering free curbside pickup for all orders placed directly through your establishment, saving the cost of third-party services. This idea can be applied to dine-in, pickup, and delivery orders.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2021

Some operators are willing to have you work today, get paid tomorrow in order to get people in place to handle their minimum requirements. Restaurants are switching out dinnerware for full paper and plastic to eliminate the need for a dishwasher (it’s one position but it’s one of the toughest to fill).

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Here’s an important – but often overlooked – truth for the restaurant industry: To make your customers to feel valued and appreciated, you must get their orders right! Perhaps they’re understaffed and struggling to keep up with incoming orders. Why is order accuracy so important for a restaurant?

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In order for new hires to perform well and stay happy in their roles, hiring managers need to pay more attention to the restaurant onboarding process. What documentation to give out and collect during onboarding. Give them an overview of what they will learn and do during onboarding, and how long the process will take.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Front-of-House. Henry is ready to order some dinner. He visits your restaurant’s app and orders his favorite dish on the menu. He visits your restaurant’s app and orders his favorite dish on the menu. He receives an estimated wait time for his order of 45 minutes. Let’s come back to Henry.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

With a critically shrunken talent pool, restaurants are racing to fill positions in every part of the business — front of house, back of house, and corporate teams. Enter digital tableside ordering. For fast-casual or QSR brands, digital tableside ordering is equally beneficial.

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Embrace the Suck

DECEMBER 25, 2019

If you can reduce ticket times in your kitchen, reduce the time it takes to turn a table, and increase delivery without adding more staff. They also learned how to make money by filling up empty trucks going back to their market with what is known as the backhaul. A lot of stuff they don’t want you to know!

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Delivery and take-out will continue to be the most popular way consumers will get their restaurant meals in a COVID and post-COVID world. Contactless ordering at the table, virtual host stands, and online staff wellness checks have all become standard operating procedures for us now. Here are their responses.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 12, 2021

Restaurants have made great strides in the digital realm—from contactless payments to online ordering—but 32 percent of them feel like they could add to their technology stack to optimize operations. For starters, today’s restaurant worker prefers an employer who takes a progressive approach to technology.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 28, 2022

In order to deal with these uncertainties, the top players had to work on bringing in technological advancements to survive and recover from the losses caused by the pandemic. The service robots operate at two levels of intelligence- from delivering food to taking care of consumer’s queries.

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