Hot Schedules

MAY 10, 2021

Seasonal Staff Playbook: Hiring, Training & Retaining Great Teams. We’ve got a few tips from the workforce management front office here at Fourth. PLAY 2: Onboard & Train Your Seasonal Staff. Without proper training and engagement opportunities, your seasonal staff can keep sales in the minor leagues.

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Hiring Training Mobile Ordering Coaching 147

7 Shifts

JANUARY 31, 2024

Managing a restaurant is a delicate routine—if we can even call it a routine. Managers are responsible for nearly every aspect of the restaurant and have to cover a variety of duties. In addition to their main duties, restaurant managers also have to contend with all the unwritten or hidden responsibilities that fall on them.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Restaurant managers do it all. One minute you’re planning shifts, then checking inventory, then making drinks and bussing tables—and before you know it, your shift is almost over and you haven’t even started your core management tasks. That’s where our restaurant management checklist templates come in. Try 7shifts for free.

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Wasserstrom

JUNE 10, 2024

Why Do Teens Require Special Safety Training? It’s ethically imperative that […] The post How to Train Young Restaurant Workers for On-the-Job Safety appeared first on The Official Wasserstrom Blog. And in the fast food segment, that number rises even higher.

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Culinary Cues

JULY 15, 2024

A training investment in your people is an investment in the success of the business. A training investment in your people is an investment in the success of the business. So, you must train and then trust your employees to represent your best effort. This is your role as a leader.

Leadership 384

Leadership Food Truck Employee Relations Training 384

Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Employees must be properly trained and then given the responsibility and authority to make those decisions that fit their position. [] SERVE: Respect means that everyone involved in the restaurant is in the service business. Every day should be an opportunity for each employee to grow, learn, and improve through teaching and training.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 23, 2023

Do you understand the seasonality of ingredients and how to adjust for less than stellar quality or substitute ingredients that will bring you close to the same result in a recipe? [] WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT WINE: Is the wine list solely the responsibility of the sommelier, lead bartender, or dining room manager?

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Seasonal Menu Leadership Training Fine Dining 488

Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

What if the chef, manager, and owner were required to do the same, in essence proclaiming they approve of the work as presented to the guest? Are you proud to present this to your teammates, manager, or guest?” Why not highlight them on your social media pages or in your restaurant blog. Is there room to improve?

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Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 27, 2023

One of the dilemmas restaurateurs’ face is the approach taken with the management and delivery of a restaurant concept and menu. To this end, cooks know exactly what to do and are trained to execute accordingly. To make it simple, the restaurant can choose to be either chef centric or restaurant centric.

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Goliath Consulting

AUGUST 16, 2022

As mentioned in our last blog , digital adoption platforms make it easier for people to personalize and provide the necessary information base on the needs of the business and job roles. In addition, digital training also helps managers tailor the training courses to fit the trainee’s learning style best.

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Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 19, 2023

What about that moment when the training wheels came off and you were able to balance and ride your bike independently? How many inner musicians, writers, athletes, teachers, entrepreneurs, cooks, chefs, and restaurateurs never rise to the surface because they were never recognized, encouraged, trained, taught, or given the opportunity?

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Training Seasonal Menu Back of House Small Business 375

Ken Burgin

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Here are 40 training activities for chefs to run for waiters and front-of-house staff within a 15-minute session. General Food Tasting and Knowledge Training 1. Vegetable Tasting and Knowledge Training 1. ” Dessert & Sweet Food Tasting and Knowledge Training 1. Fruit Tasting and Knowledge Training 1.

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Training Seasonal Menu Front of House Presentation 97

Squirrel Systems

JUNE 3, 2024

High turnover rates not only disrupt operations but also incur significant costs related to hiring and training new employees. However, technological advancements in restaurant labor management and scheduling are proving to be game-changers in addressing this issue.

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Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

In the end, the restaurant’s purpose is to provide a forum for coming together and the role of chefs, cooks, servers, bartenders, managers, and owners is to ensure that the experience embraces and does not offend, satisfies and never disappoints, respects all who enter and be what guests want them to be.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 13, 2023

Each of those “departments” will require some level of unique kitchen management (sous chef) and specialists to support the uniqueness of function. Remember that being “the chef” will take you away from much of the day-to-day cooking, the adrenaline rush, and the team excitement that drew you to the kitchen in the first place.

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Hotels Point of Sale Cash Management Training 435

Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The needs run the entire gamut: cooks, bakers, chefs, managers, bartenders, servers, caterers, and even business partners…the shortages and the opportunities are EVERYWHERE. Remember how risky it was to take those training wheels off your bike at the age of seven or eight? This will never cease to be true.

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Coaching Employee Relations Take-out Training 339

Culinary Cues

AUGUST 31, 2024

When properly developed and integrated into your operation, the mission statement will impact who you hire, how you train, the products you develop and sell, the way you lead and manage, how employees interact, the way that guests are approached, and how the world perceives you (the business) to be. Choose wisely.

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Customer Service Social Media Customer Experience Reference 320

Culinary Cues

MAY 8, 2023

If a chef can manage a week or two here or there it will be at that rare time when business is off and even then, chefs are checking their email a few times a day to see what crisis is occurring while they try to relax. A 34-hour work week is unthinkable, a 60 – 80-hour workweek is more like it.

Kitchen Safety 437

Kitchen Safety Food Safety Coaching Training 437

Culinary Cues

MAY 5, 2021

My question to you is, how will management of Restaurants, Clubs and Hotels try to provide a sense of balance and wellbeing for the chefs who have the history of working from dawn until well into the night, six and sometimes seven days a week. REALIZATION, TRAINING, DELEGATION, AND RESULTS: Ultimately, owners and operators care about results.

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Hotels Employee Relations Coaching Training 424

ChowNow

AUGUST 19, 2024

Whether you’re a roadside fruit stand or a Michelin star restaurant, cash flow management is crucial. And there’s more to restaurant cash management than simply bringing in more money to cover expenses. However, poor restaurant cash flow management can result in failing to pay employees, vendors or debtors.

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Restaurant365

AUGUST 21, 2020

Cultivating a library of tools for your new hires, such as company handbooks, checklists, and training manuals, can help you start off on the right foot. Teaching your policies, training your managers, and educating your employees about your code of conduct can help you respond quickly and transparently to any complaints that arise.

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Blog Restaurant Law Recruiting Employee Relations 78

The Rail

JULY 5, 2024

This blog will explore essential restaurant management tips that will help you enhance profitability and drive success in the competitive food service industry. Cost Control and Inventory Management In the restaurant industry, cost containment and inventory management are critical to sustaining profitability.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This is what it feels like to be in a management position before you have the experiences and wisdom to act or react appropriately. Typically, those who seek out those complex positions of manager, chef, or owner/operator are Type-A personalities. You see the collision coming and feel helpless to change the inevitable outcome.

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Coaching Take-out Café Management 304

Culinary Cues

APRIL 29, 2024

The industry expects that many managers will need to belittle and embarrass employees for their quality of work often resulting from the lack of training provided. Other solutions will emerge if the employee feels a sense of worth, is properly trained, is supported, and is recognized as an important part of the whole.

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Front of House Back of House Training Customer Service 244

Restaurant365

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

As a store-level manager, you always have a lot on your plate. However, in between all these tasks, it is critical to devote time and energy into accurate and consistent inventory management. Inventory management is a powerful tool for your day-to-day operations, but only if you use it correctly.

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Inventory Management Management Point of Sale 138

Culinary Cues

AUGUST 9, 2021

Internally, the guest experience owes a great deal to the housekeeping staff, the dining room servers and managers, bartenders and sommelier, dishwashers, prep cooks, bakers and pastry chefs, line cooks, expeditor, sous chef, and chef who holds the lead position in the kitchen. Look at every dishwasher as your next cook in training.

Front of House 475

Front of House Customer Experience Dine-in Training 475

QSR Automations

JULY 8, 2024

QSR Automations has recently introduced ConnectSmart® RecipesPlus, a robust solution designed to revolutionize recipe management while working seamlessly with the rest of the ConnectSmart® Suite. As restaurants grow and evolve, so do their recipe management needs. Join our blog list for monthly updates: Subscribe!

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Management Management Social Media Blog 52

Sling

APRIL 27, 2023

Restaurant operations management is essential for the long-term health of your business. In this article, we examine the specific goals of restaurant operations management and discuss a number of ways to help you improve the program in your own business. Table of contents What is restaurant operations management?

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Culinary Cues

JUNE 23, 2024

THEY ARE OUT THERE, and they are willing to teach, train, support, and inspire those who want to be great. Time is the hardest thing to manage – there is never enough, so cooks are busy, but they exude “purpose” and are always cognizant of not wasting steps. Am I wagging a finger at those operations that perpetuate the negative?

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Uniforms Front of House Back of House Food Supply 382

Culinary Cues

APRIL 23, 2022

From the dishwasher to the prep cook, line cook to sous chef, and server to restaurant manager – food cost percentages must be something that everyone takes on as a job requirement. Train to these standards and manage them. Every employee must be involved in this process – not just management.

Food 389

Food Seasonal Menu Waste Point of Sale 389

Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

If you are part of a working couple, managing a budget, paying for a mortgage, supporting two cars, and probably still paying off your student loans, then does going out to dinner make sense? Do the math. Strict economics would require most people to think hard about spending that kind of money.

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Pricing Marketing Insurance Seasonal Menu 314

Clover - Restaurants

AUGUST 8, 2024

Fortunately, there are tools and strategies you can put in place to make managing multiple locations more efficient. Your SOPs should cover everything from food preparation to employee training to customer service protocols. As your footprint grows, you’ll need a team of managers you can trust to oversee the day-to-day workflow.

Management 52

Management Management Front of House Online Ordering 52

Culinary Cues

JULY 23, 2023

Most restaurant owners, managers, family members of cooks, friends of cooks and chefs, those in other professions, service staff, and restaurant patrons, don’t get it. It is a juxtaposition that is nearly impossible to manage. Most people don’t get it.

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Guest Recovery Seasonal Menu Presentation Customer Experience 408

Culinary Cues

JULY 31, 2022

This is meant to be a chat with all the stakeholders: cooks, chefs, servers, bartenders, managers, owners, dishwashers, and customers. For the Restaurateur: Are you willing to take a hard look at your business model and change how you attract, train, invest in, compensate, and evaluate your staff? PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER.

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Food Supply Training Supplies Café 400

Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Wax on, wax off. [] The sous chef is the second in command – the person who is the lead operations manager. Sous chefs are trainers, schedulers, production managers, quality control geeks, motivators, timing engineers, communicators, organizers, and roundsmen able to fill in any position where they might be needed.

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Kitchen Safety Food Safety Back of House Front of House 374

Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

There are masters to serve, people who depend on the work of the culinary professional, who trust that their food will be prepared properly, that it will be managed and handled well, and the plate viewed as an important canvas on which the technician and artist paints. TRAINING: You can never train too much. What can you do?

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Employee Relations Training Fine Dining Take-out 390

Culinary Cues

JUNE 7, 2023

Time to evaluate your life and find a way to either minimize that stress or learn how to manage it. What you really need to do is find a way to push some of that stress aside, look at the cause differently, and rather than manage it superficially, look at some lifestyle adjustments. Once again, train and delegate as much as you can.

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