Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2024

However, restaurant operators may fear they can’t deliver true flexibility during a period of heightened demand, even with the addition of seasonal help. Cultural Reinforcement Managers and operators should encourage employees to avail themselves of flexible scheduling and other related benefits.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

As a restaurant manager or operator, you are the driving force in productivity – leading your staff and keeping customers happy. However, productivity is more easily trained than managed. Many restaurant operators juggle multiple locations, and adding managers adds another link in the chain of command to manage.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 19, 2020

The more staff you have to replace, the more money you have to spend on recruitment, and the more time you have to spend interviewing and training. In order to help new staff learn the ropes, you need to create a comprehensive restaurant staff training manual. Even your most seasoned staff can forget things.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 2, 2023

“Complexity is the enemy of execution,” according to business and life coach and author Tony Robbins. Whether you own or operate a bar, restaurant, hotel, resort, casino, or sports venue, your ability to control costs and deliver a satisfying CX depends on many factors. Do you meet the expectations your marketing creates?

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Operations Loyalty Program Mobile Ordering Consumer Goods 410

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. Make these operations your benchmark and measure your progress. [] CELEBRATE EXCELLENCE You can’t be everywhere, all the time. This is your role as a leader.

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Leadership Food Truck Employee Relations Training 474

Culinary Cues

MAY 5, 2021

TRAINING AND DELEGATION: Yes, the hospitality industry has plenty of responsibility for this situation that can only be resolved through teaching and training managers and chefs to be more efficient with their time, able to discover how to prioritize their tasks and learn when and how some of this work can trickle down to other staff members.

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Hotels Employee Relations Coaching Training 475

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Amidst this good news, you should be aware of three hidden pitfalls that could affect your ability to operate safely and with a full complement of staff. Hasty hiring choices can lead to faster turnover, operational problems, and potentially more on-the-job injuries. Inadequate training. Exhaustion from overwork.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 9, 2021

The most important thing a restaurant can do to make guests with food restrictions feel comfortable and safe is to make sure the staff is well-trained. Training the staff is the top priority, because then they can competently answer questions and work with the guest to make them feel most comfortable.

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Coaching Kitchen Safety Food Safety Training 520

Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

It is the team behind the chef that makes a successful restaurant; it is the team that executes the chef’s vision; and it is the team’s focus that allows the chef’s cost consciousness to result in a financially successful operation. TRAIN people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to.”.

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Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Your employees will look forward to interaction with this type of leader. [] WHEN YOU ARE NOT SERVING THE PUBLIC DIRECTLY – SERVE SOMEONE WHO IS You can’t be everywhere, so you need to instead focus more on being a coach and a supporter. Now that you have invested all that effort, it’s time to trust them to do the job you hired them for.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 23, 2023

We focus on team development and define it as our team cycle which includes things like recruitment and hiring, onboarding and training, as well as evaluation of compensation and benefits. We strive to empower our employees by coaching them for long-term success. Fourth, adopt a coaching mentality.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Cody, Joe, and Allie opened the fifth location in Albion and now operate all the stores together. We chatted with Allie Bobe, Owner/Manager, about managing almost 100 employees across five locations and keeping tradition alive while modernizing operations. 7shifts was very easy to get started with.

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Website Management Communication Point of Sale Coaching 195

Culinary Cues

MAY 8, 2023

It is very rare that any owner/operator demands a chef work that much, we just feel responsible and hate to ask our staff to work as hard as they do and not find the chef present to help, encourage, critique, and celebrate. To a degree, we work those hours because it is our job to do so.

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Kitchen Safety Food Safety Coaching Training 493

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Therefore, businesses are beginning to prioritize English language training, as it results in better efficiency, productivity, and ultimately profitability of the industry. In fact, 76 percent of employees say that a company would be more appealing if it offered additional skills training to its staff.

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Communication Hospitality Customer Service Fast Casual 470

Culinary Cues

AUGUST 31, 2020

The power of leadership comes with tremendous responsibility to listen, treat others with respect, study an issue and avoid making rash decisions, and an understanding that his or her role is that of guide, coach, and mentor – not dictator. [] LACK OF EMPATHY. This is how a team operates. [] INADEQUATE FOCUS ON COST. “My

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Leadership Point of Sale Training Coaching 473

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 19, 2022

You may be concerned about finding staff to work the specific hours you want to operate. But after three decades of operating solely in the breakfast and lunch space, I would love to share four things I have learned about the benefits of embracing a niche as a restaurant owner. Our restaurant closes at 3 p.m.

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Specials Coaching Customer Experience Customer Service 493

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 10, 2023

In these traditionally in-person audits, inspectors often find issues that need to be corrected, and would tell the brand location’s operator what was wrong. The operator would then go correct the problems. Then, the COVID-19 pandemic changed the way brands audited. Then, the COVID-19 pandemic changed the way brands audited.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 4, 2022

After many years of working in kitchens, leading operations, managing departments, problem-solving, planning, directing, and listening we know that we have the skills – so maybe it would make sense to jump back in the game. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. and quietly think to ourselves: “I could do that again.”

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Coaching Training Fine Dining Article 476

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

As the pandemic shines a light on the importance of non-desk workers in keeping businesses, and the overall economy going, it has also given us a window into how these workers operate – who they are, how they behave and what matters most to them. They need to have the latest information.

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Mobile Ordering Online Ordering Customer Experience Communication 493

Culinary Cues

JULY 23, 2023

As if that weren’t enough, the menu and each morsel of food presented represents the chef’s life of experiences, his or her family history, the cuisine of their forefathers, every chef who contributed to their training, and everything that they believe in – as it pertains to food. It is a juxtaposition that is nearly impossible to manage.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The campaign culminates in the nationwide event, Day of Giving, on Wednesday, March 25, when local Jersey Mike’s owners and operators will donate their resources and every single dollar that comes in to local charities. As added incentive, special deals will be announced each week on Twitter and through Jersey Mike’s email club.

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Coaching Point of Sale Customer Experience Retail 419

Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

What changes might occur in your operation if everyone was required to sign their work and take public responsibility for it? Support an employee’s growth through in-service training, sponsorship to attend workshops or seminars, buy your line cooks so great cookbook resources to study and dream about.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, and surges in many parts of the country, restaurant owners are continuing to navigate constantly changing guidelines for operating their restaurants. With the COVID-19 pandemic surging across the country, it’s more important now than ever before to focus on employee safety.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 27, 2020

." Under the banner of its longstanding “We Help You Make It” promise to foodservice operators, US Foods Holding Corp. “Through weekly webinars and regularly updated tools and resources, we are helping operators support their employees and adapt their businesses so they can survive and in some cases, even thrive.”

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Webinar Loyalty Program Online Ordering Social Media 463

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 10, 2020

” The cashless multi-vendor open-air gastronomic market has two locations in Prague, and a total of 34 independently operated restaurants, bars and retailers. We are taking other precautions and provide a sanitary training session for our tenants and clear communication with our tenants via our digital property management system (PMS).

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Kitchen Safety Food Safety Cash Management Food Supply 516

Embrace the Suck

JANUARY 13, 2021

Now, before you say, “ But Coach, you are an anomaly and my situation is different.” I have coached thousands of independent restaurant owners like you to seek that elusive state of finally breaking free from your restaurant running you. Now, you might say, “But Coach, I do trust my team!” Not always.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 27, 2020

." Under the banner of its longstanding “We Help You Make It” promise to foodservice operators, US Foods Holding Corp. “Through weekly webinars and regularly updated tools and resources, we are helping operators support their employees and adapt their businesses so they can survive and in some cases, even thrive.”

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Mobile Ordering Webinar Loyalty Program Online Ordering 494

Culinary Cues

MARCH 25, 2021

Copycat operations can certainly thrive, but greatness comes from uniqueness and excellence in executing that uniqueness. [] COMMITMENT: Greatness tends to surround those who dedicate themselves and much of their lives to the pursuit of excellence. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. Treating everyone with respect is the price of admission.

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Communication Coaching Fine Dining Influencer 451

Culinary Cues

JUNE 3, 2024

Are you serious about cooking, creating, coaching a team, and contributing to the success of a business? It may not look the same and they may have never written it down, but this is their method of operation. [] LOOK THE PART Take pride in your appearance and the sharpness of your uniform. Besides when you look good, you feel good.

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Uniforms Point of Sale Coaching Small Business 433

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Good media coaching helps interviewees develop key messaging in advance, as well as an on-the-spot strategy during an uncertain or uncomfortable scenario. Once you have your key points down, it’s time to dedicate some time and practice your responses with a PR coach. Tell your coach right away what worries you the most and why.

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Coaching Sourcing Sports Influencer 474

Culinary Cues

AUGUST 4, 2022

It is apathy that kills a restaurant, not environmental factors that make operation challenging. We need to stand up and fight apathy, stand up against mediocrity and push hard for excellence as the standard of operation. Unless…a coach or player steps up and says “NO”! “We PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. CAFÉ Talks Podcast.

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Front of House Back of House Coaching Customer Service 428

Embrace the Suck

JANUARY 20, 2021

Many operators are struggling to find any staff! I have a rule that all my coaching clients must follow: 100% Thank U’s. Also, get a professional that’s trained and certified to interpret these reports before you start making big decisions. Are they breathing? Can they form a coherent sentence? Why is that important?

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Recruiting Coaching Hiring Take-out 384

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 27, 2024

Retaining quality staff members is always a key challenge for restaurant operators. Greenberg is an internationally recognized speaker, author and coach with franchise clients that include McDonalds, Great Clips, GNC, RE/MAX, Smoothie King, Global Franchise Group and many more. Poor training. To feel/look important?

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Coaching Franchising Franchise Book 275

Culinary Cues

JUNE 1, 2020

WHAT WE SAY: – Effective leaders coach their words and base them on what they have learned – backed up with facts and input from those “experts” that they have effectively listened to. Unless our leaders have proximity or build proximity into their decisions, then it is very likely that those mom and pop operators will fall.

Leadership 80

Leadership Supplies Guest Recovery Small Business 80

7 Shifts

JUNE 3, 2022

According to Jim Taylor, a restaurant coach at BenchmarkSixty , restaurants can afford to pay employees more by looking for efficiencies in their productivity. Showcase your core values in your employee handbook, in new-hire training, on your company careers page. The Solution: Create a training program. Lack of recognition.

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Tip Distribution Email Marketing Communication Coaching 397

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Training must take place and periodically measuring their performance is critical in making sure the restaurant is running smoothly. Having worked as a business coach and consultant for over 30 years, I have helped many restaurateurs with multiple performance management techniques.

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Management Management Point of Sale Front of House 474

Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

They hire, train, critique, support, celebrate, and rally behind the members of the team that has been built and push each individual to contribute his or her best – always. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. Create a Team Built to Win. Well-run organizations – in this case a kitchen, are built to win. It’s hard to argue with that logic.

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Fine Dining Coaching Dine-in Café 451