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How to Create an Effective Restaurant Onboarding Process

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Here’s an example of an onboarding overview: Day One Orientation: Learning about the restaurant’s culture and history, meeting coworkers, and receiving a uniform. It’s important to train all newcomers on your service standards to make sure they’re giving guests a uniform experience. Include role-playing as part of the training.

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Employee Engagement Best Practices for Restaurants

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Alternatively, you can have separate competitions for front-of-house (FOH) and back-of-house (BOH) staff to make the competition more equitable. For example, FOH staff can compete on revenue generated while BOH staff can compete on ticket speed. How can you afford bonuses?

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Two Independent Restaurateurs Share Reopening Lessons Learned

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Designate a single employee per shift—ideally with a clearly identifiable uniform or badge for customers to recognize—to oversee safety and sanitation measures.”. We keep it at to-go pick up so our customers know we’re dedicated to these new rules and procedures”. We can apply it to get the numbers up.”.

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Halloween Costumes for Working in a Restaurant ??

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Vintage or retro waitress uniforms usually consist of a collared and pocketed dress, an apron, and a sleek updo. Outfit pieces: Scrubs Allergy mask (optional) Stethoscope Lab coat Chef Flip FOH with BOH and put on your best chef’s hat, coat, or apron!

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Topics to Cover in a Restaurant Employee Handbook

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There are several job functions in both the FOH and BOH and all need detailed appearance standards. Uniform—specify if a uniform is provided or if there are specific garments and colors employees must wear. . With appearance standards, your FOH team is going to make a good first impression.

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Restaurants Beat Labor Crisis with Daring New Wage Structure

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It’s only going to get harder to find subminimum wage workers who’d be willing to do 12-hour shifts in subpar conditions while denying them the possibility to share in the tips that FOH servers are making. After a while you can move to a uniform 20% fee. The number one objection to auto gratuity is that it isn’t always well received.

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What to wear to a restaurant job interview and how to prepare

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If there’s a uniform, do your best to recreate it with what you already own. Most restaurant server uniforms are simple combinations of pants and button-down shirts in neutral colors. Because cooks spend so much time behind the scenes in a uniform, their closets may offer fewer options than FOH folks. Keep it simple.