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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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THE IMPORTANT THINGS I LEARNED IN THE KITCHEN

Culinary Cues

Fifteen minutes early is not just being present its being ready to make a difference. [] IF YOU CAN LEAN YOU CAN CLEAN Yes, time is money, and the original intent of this often-used statement may relate to the cost of labor, but most importantly it relates to how you approach life.

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CHEFS – WHAT DOES YOUR MENU REPRESENT?

Culinary Cues

This menu is developed using analytical data that is drawn from surveys and historical reference to other restaurants within a community or region. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. Destiny and tradition create expectations that are hard to argue with. Harvest America Ventures, LLC. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG.

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What to Include in Your Restaurant Employee Handbook

7 Shifts

The words ‘employee handbook’ are enough to make any new hire quiver. Having to spend a shift—or even worse, your after-hours—reading through an employee handbook will sap the fun out of any new restaurant job. The introduction to your restaurant employee handbook Think of your employee handbook as a welcome to your restaurant.

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Unique Challenges and Considerations for Restaurants As They Reopen Their Doors

Modern Restaurant Management

If you are one of the businesses that has been lucky enough to receive a small business loan through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (or otherwise have been able to secure alternate financial backing), you may have been able to retain many of your employees and maintain business continuity in the interim. [1].

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Chicago and Oakland McDonald’s Workers Win COVID-19 Protections After Months of Substandard Supplies and Training

EATER

Workers in Oakland, California, filed a lawsuit after allegedly being told to make masks out of coffee filters and dog diapers Two recent court orders directed at McDonald’s restaurants represent partial victories for employees who seek to hold their employers legally accountable for keeping them safe from the coronavirus.

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A COOK’S MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH

Culinary Cues

Yes, I am talking about your corner restaurant and the employees who work there. TARDINESS OR NO SHOW: If dependability issues slip out of control and an employee is constantly late and has a record of not showing up when expected or scheduled, then it’s time to pay attention. It may or may not be work related, but it does impact work.