7 Shifts

AUGUST 20, 2024

However, with fewer customers dining out weekly , restaurants must ensure that they can serve each diner quickly and satisfy them enough that they’ll want to return. Tracking and implementing strategies to improve this metric will allow you to maximize your dining space and generate more revenue.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

However, servers are not the only ones who contribute to a guest's dining experience. It could also incentivize other FOH employees like bartenders and bussers to work faster and alongside highly-tipped servers in hopes of earning a portion of their gratuities. Tip Pooling by FOH & BOH. Bartenders. Food runners.

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7 Shifts

DECEMBER 18, 2023

It also gets rid of those frustrating sticky notes all over your POS. These kiosks not only created a positive customer service environment but also helped the chain navigate FOH labor shortages in recent years. Reservation-tracking tools use your dining room’s capacity and floor plan, which helps prevent overbooking.

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Restaurant365

OCTOBER 15, 2021

If you have a restaurant management system that integrates fully with software like your point of sale (POS) and scheduling systems, you can use this data to easily calculate many of these metrics. With information from your POS system, you can track time for staff alongside sales reports (or customers served). Sales Per Server Hour.

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Restaurant365

APRIL 19, 2022

This includes your fully burdened labor restaurant cost (wages, payroll taxes, and benefits for that time period) divided by your revenue (the sales before taxes or other deductions) pulled from your point of sale (POS) system. With information from your POS system, you can track time for staff alongside sales reports.

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Restaurant365

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

This includes your fully burdened labor restaurant cost (wages, payroll taxes, and benefits for that time period) divided by your revenue (the sales before taxes or other deductions) pulled from your point of sale (POS) system. Labor cost percentage is a helpful metric for tracking how much you are spending on labor to produce revenue.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

Delivery/Takeout : COVID created a shift from in-person dining to takeout and delivery options, increasing reliance on third party delivery services, and on attractive takeout options. And outdoor dining, once more of an afterthought or a novelty, has become a more permanent and intentional part of restaurant design.

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Lavu

MARCH 11, 2020

From the introduction of point of sale (POS) systems to accounting systems, technology is changing the ways restaurants operate today. Whether you are looking for effective inventory management software or just a POS system for your business, restaurant management software is something you cannot afford to miss.

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Restaurant365

JULY 8, 2021

The rise of off-premise dining. Off-premise dining certainly accelerated during the pandemic. Dining room closures or capacity restrictions drove restaurants to increase their sales through off-premise channels. Is off-premise dining here to stay? Many guests are eager to dine in restaurants again.

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