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

Modern Restaurant Management

Bonus Tip : Structure your handbook around the employee lifecycle, covering company culture and recruitment through performance management and termination to ensure a clear, easy-to-follow guide for every stage of the employee experience. Bonus Tip : Create a simple FAQ document to address common employee questions about coverage options.

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Complicated Hiring Practices Drive Candidates Away.  Make Them Simple

Modern Restaurant Management

According to the National Restaurant Association, 70 percent of operators report not having enough employees to meet customer demand, and three out of four say they will commit more resources to employee recruitment and retention. Create mobile-friendly forms and company documents. Hiring is difficult enough.

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Reporting Best Practices in the Restaurant Industry

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurant owners or managers would rather spend time on other meaningful tasks, such as recruiting and hiring, training chefs, or updating daily specials on the menu. CoGS and P&L documents are essential for any restaurant or business. Overview: Reporting in the Restaurant Industry.

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How to Analyze Restaurant Financial Statements and Identify Growth Opportunities

Modern Restaurant Management

Balance Sheet This document provides insight into the current state of your finances (up to a specific date). Income statement (P/L statement) This document shows restaurant owners how much they’ve made versus their losses, so they can determine whether their ROI was sufficient to balance their spending.

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Collecting the Right Customer Data Points to Drive Restaurant Profits

Modern Restaurant Management

From the comforts of their own home, consumers can offer details on their thought process for each mealtime throughout the day by documenting through video recordings on their smartphone.

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Despite Improved 2024 Outlook, Labor, and Other Risks May Drag Restaurants Down

Modern Restaurant Management

Nearly 75 percent of the industry executives surveyed in the HUB International 2024 Outlook Executive Survey said it has affected their business’ vitality, leading over half to sharpen their employee recruiting practices. Many restaurant groups have improved their employee assistance programs in response. No surprises.

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Is scheduling on paper killing your business? How scheduling software helps

ChowNow

Entering timesheets into payroll is tedious Restaurant payroll is a stack of endless documents. Would you be more actively recruiting new team members or coaching existing team members? Shift trades need to involve a separate thread with a manager, meaning more room for error and more time spent on tedious duties.

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