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Effective Communication For Restaurant Teams & Employees

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Communication is key in virtually every workplace, but this rings especially true in the restaurant industry. With the industry facing a 73% annual turnover rate and poor communication being the number one reason staff quit , there is a lot that effective team communication could do to improve the hospitality industry.

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Restaurant Staff Training 101

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Front-of-house (FOH) staff, like servers and hosts, will need customer service training, upselling techniques, and communication skills. Back-of-house (BOH) staff, including chefs and kitchen assistants, will focus more on food safety, food handling, and kitchen equipment use. Let’s say you run a fast-casual restaurant.

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5 Reasons You need Platform Restaurant Management Software (Sponsored)

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From guest management software to kitchen display systems and even finding the right point of sale (POS), these are the digital tools that simplify life for staff and guests alike. In the past, kitchens worked by a paper ticket system, which was handwritten by the waitstaff and passed to the back-of-house (BOH) staff.

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What Does 86 Mean? Definition, History and More

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At some point when you were dining in a restaurant, you may have heard the BOH staff shout “86” and the name of a menu item to the waiters. Whatever the reason for an item needing to be 86'ed, this restaurant term works really well as a quick way to communicate the need to take an item off the menu. How is eighty-six used?

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14 Restaurant Management Tools to Make your Business More Efficient

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It also gets rid of those frustrating sticky notes all over your POS. Employee communications tools When it comes to employee communications, texting and phone calls get the job done. Having a secure, business-centric communication tool allows you to share schedules and announcements instantly.

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How to Create an Effective Restaurant Onboarding Process

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Admin: Filling out employment paperwork and receiving access to tools like the employee timekeeping portal, employee email, POS, and security system. For after-hours questions, tell trainees to communicate with their mentors via your restaurant's team communication tool to help staff maintain a work-life balance.

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9 Top Restaurant Technologies To Evolve Your Business

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The first technologies that restaurants often invest in are cloud-based point of sale (POS) systems and payroll processing. A wide-ranging industry report from Toast included a section on restaurant technology trends, noting that 82% of restaurants were using a POS, followed by 56% using payroll software.