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Restaurant Staff Training 101

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Back-of-house (BOH) staff, including chefs and kitchen assistants, will focus more on food safety, food handling, and kitchen equipment use. First, you must have a dedicated training plan for cashiers that covers using the POS system, handling payments, and managing customer queues to reduce wait times during peak hours.

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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. For instance, BOH staff may use it to communicate in any interaction they have. If the BOH staff is constantly shouting “86!” Where did the term come from? Keeping enough inventory on hand.

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Food Delivery Ideas: How to Deliver Food While Maximizing Your Restaurant’s

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Here are tips for managing food and packaging inventory: Food inventory Use your POS or an inventory management tool to keep track of what you have and what you use over any given week. Use 7shifts’ POS integration to better understand your sales numbers and trends. However, these tools usually come with steep fees.

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How to Drastically Cut Expenses in Your Restaurant (and Stay Profitable During COVID-19)

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Download all the data from your restaurant POS or back-office management platform to get a sense of how your restaurant is operating today. During the COVID-19 situation, evaluate how many BOH staff you need to keep up with delivery and takeout demand. However, it is often overlooked by restaurateurs as a source of optimization.

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Your 7-Step Guide to Reopening Your Restaurant

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Restart your POS subscription Reactivate your 7shifts account Reactivate your payroll system Reactivate your guest management or reservation systems Reactivate your music system 4. If you integrate your POS with 7shifts, you can get a closer look at your projected sales costs with the labor budget tool as you build out your schedule.

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The Guide to Equitable Restaurant Tip Payout Methods & Systems

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Ensures that BOH staff receives a share of tips. Tip Pooling by FOH & BOH. Sharing tips with kitchen employees effectively bridge the wage gap between FOH and BOH workers. These establishments may or may not have a BOH; a cafe may just have a crew of baristas that make coffee, heat up pastries, and do dishes themselves.

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Employee Engagement Best Practices for Restaurants

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Use data from your POS to see which employee served the fewest tables, upsold the least, got the fewest tips, etc. Choose a key performance indicator that’s important to your business, like check average per guest, then use your POS to see which employee has outperformed the others in that category. How can you afford bonuses?