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Restaurant Staff Training 101

7 Shifts

Back-of-house (BOH) staff, including chefs and kitchen assistants, will focus more on food safety, food handling, and kitchen equipment use. A well-informed team improves service, enhances the dining experience, and reduces errors in the kitchen. When creating a training plan, you must distinguish between these two areas.

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Why Training is the Key to Accurate Messaging About Gluten-Free Foodservice

Modern Restaurant Management

When staff are unable to answer basic questions about your gluten-free menu, or ask inappropriate questions of guests who inquire about gluten-free options, consumers may have doubts about your ability to ensure their safety or prepare a dish that meets their dietary needs. The first step is to clearly identify any gluten-free dishes.

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How to Make Your Guests Feel Safe and Get them Back in the Door

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurants bring groups of people and that traffic often brings safety. Restaurants must build trust, communicate safety and clearly establish value. Restaurants must build trust, communicate safety and clearly establish value. Safety and Trust. The fragile nature of restaurants has been exposed by the pandemic.

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IoT Can Help Bridge the Staffing Shortage Gap

Modern Restaurant Management

IoT can help restaurants in many ways, including: Automating remote temperature monitoring and logging in refrigerators, freezers, and cold-storage areas to streamline food safety and compliance reporting. Detecting leaks (pipes or equipment) in the kitchen to prevent costly damage or downtime. Multiply that by 9,500 company-owned U.S.

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Five Ways AI Cameras Will Help Your restaurant in 2021

Goliath Consulting

COVID-19 Safety. COVID-19 has been a powerful driving force for AI tech particularly in this industry, as stay-at-home orders, social distancing and other safety measures forced operators to rethink how they interact with their staff and guests. Even with the vaccine, we expect the focus on safety and hygiene to remain.

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Why Restaurants Are Switching to Intelligent Packaging

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurant owners are using intelligent packaging to keep food warm, hygienic, presentable, and ready to eat from kitchen to customer plate. Cross-contamination at a restaurant refers to the transmission of germs or other hazardous microorganisms from food, equipment, or humans to food. What Makes Intelligent Packaging So Popular.

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Upcoming Restaurant Tech Trends of the Post-COVID-19 World

Goliath Consulting

But even after the pandemic, sanitation and safety concerns are expected to remain, and the restaurant business model may have to evolve in a way that utilizes more tech-driven service systems. More restaurants may pivot to self-delivery instead of third party delivery to mitigate fees and have more control over the safety of their food (5).