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Nine Critical HR and Payroll Steps to Prepare Your Restaurant for 2025

Modern Restaurant Management

Update Your Employee Handbook Your employee handbook sets the tone for your culture by establishing expectations and aligning your team toward a common goal and vision. Bonus Tip : Create a simple FAQ document to address common employee questions about coverage options.

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Restaurant Safety: How Restaurateurs Can Improve their Risk Profiles

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We frequently see issues at restaurants related to slips and falls, fires and worker injuries. Second, in the kitchen, training is a critical component of a safe workplace. Owners and operators should ensure team members are trained to safely use all equipment. Open flames in the kitchen can lead to fires or burns.

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Safety First: Welcoming Restaurant Employees Back

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As the fight against COVID-19 continues, more of those same restaurants have started considering—and even implementing—new plans for welcoming employees and customers back for in-person dining. Unexpected downtime, when paired with a swift return to work, can present new risks to restaurant employees.

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Restaurant Reopening Resources

Modern Restaurant Management

The document is meant to be used in conjunction with instruction operators receive from authorities during their reopening phase-in. The guidance focuses on food safety, cleaning and sanitizing, employee health monitoring and personal hygiene, and social distancing. Employee health. Download the full guidance, here.

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What Restaurant Owners Need to Grow: Legal Strategies for Long-Term Success

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A carefully crafted Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD) and clear franchise agreements are key to setting expectations and maintaining transparency with your franchise partners. This includes reviewing insurance coverage, ensuring your contracts are solid and training team member with HR (human resource) best practices.

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Employment Law Considerations as Restaurants Reopen

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For restaurants, this means dine-in service will begin again — or will be soon — and more employees will be returning to work. The following is a look at just some of the considerations regarding employees that restaurant owners and managers will need to focus on in the weeks and months to come.

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Four Ways to Streamline Reopening Procedures for Restaurants

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” Restaurant managers who develop clearly-documented policies, operational checklists, and clear communication systems can simplify the process for everyone. Employee well-being. All of these policies should be clearly documented, and all employees should be required to read and sign-off on them.

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