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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

Modern Restaurant Management

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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How Better Cooking Oil Management Enhances Efficiency and Reduces Costs

Modern Restaurant Management

By integrating these sustainable practices related to cooking oil, restaurants can make a significant positive impact on the environment and contribute to a more sustainable food system overall while not necessarily negatively impacting the financial conditions within the operation. How should operators be training their staff?

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Restaurant Workforce Research: Reflecting on 2024 and Optimizing for 2025

Modern Restaurant Management

After millions left the industry in 2020, restaurants responded by increasing wages and leaning into incentives to attract employees back. To help restaurant operators better understand what employees want and need, close to 1,000 restaurant managers were surveyed regarding compensation, technology use, retention tactics, and more.

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How AI Is Revolutionizing Restaurant Compliance

Modern Restaurant Management

But maintaining compliance is about more than reducing legal risk and the subsequent costs: it’s crucial to creating a better experience for both employees and customers. To promote a good employee experience as well as a healthy bottom line, compliance must be more accurate and efficient.

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Planning Year-Round Training to Improve Restaurant Operations

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This ever-changing nature makes training your staff that much more important, as your success hinges on the performance of your team. For example, training employees to not waste food and other resources is a growing priority for restaurants seeking to minimize environmental impact while maximizing efficiency.

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Safety Training and a Strong Safety Culture: The Recipe for Mitigating Restaurant Risk

Modern Restaurant Management

As the focus for restaurants continues to center on growing and staffing up, safety training can sometimes get lost in the mix or ratcheted down to cover only topics related to compliance with regulations. That won’t cut it in an industry that faces major risks associated with employee injuries and food safety.

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