Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 21, 2024

When hiring restaurant managers, qualities like organization skills, experience and leadership are always at top of mind. Here are three traits that often go overlooked when hiring management positions within restaurants. Hiring management must also know that customer experience and satisfaction is key to keep a restaurant running.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Your staff, especially your restaurant manager, plays a crucial role in the overall dining experience. We’ve prepared a list of restaurant manager interview questions that can help you find the right person to lead your team and help grow your business. How do you manage the restaurant’s budget and control costs?

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Leadership Management Management Operations 195

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NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Finding a well-rounded bar manager can be the determining factor in the success of your business. Through the right interview questions, you can find a manager who doesn’t just fit the job but can boost your bar’s reputation. In this article: How do you handle inventory management to keep the bar always adequately stocked?

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JULY 25, 2024

Nearly half of all employees who have left a restaurant job before cite poor management as one of the main reasons for this high turnover. 46% of employees who quit say it's due to difficult managers. These employees leave for jobs with potentially higher pay, better managers, and more opportunities within the industry.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Hiring a great kitchen manager can transform your BOH operations with outstanding culinary and leadership skills. Asking the appropriate kitchen manager interview questions can reveal whether a candidate has the experience, skills, and abilities that your restaurant needs. How would you describe your management style?

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AUGUST 16, 2024

Restaurant management is one of the best pathways for servers and hosts looking to make the next step in their hospitality careers. If you see yourself managing a team and overseeing operations, the path of a restaurant manager may be fulfilling. What do restaurant managers do? As of 2024, they make around $26.42

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

A large chunk of that comes down to complex problems in global food supply chain management that most restaurants have little control over. What restaurants can do, however, is re-think how their direct food supply is managed – from transport to inventory control. Around 33 to 40 percent of food goes to waste each year.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 23, 2023

Do you understand the seasonality of ingredients and how to adjust for less than stellar quality or substitute ingredients that will bring you close to the same result in a recipe? [] WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT WINE: Is the wine list solely the responsibility of the sommelier, lead bartender, or dining room manager?

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 9, 2021

Internally, the guest experience owes a great deal to the housekeeping staff, the dining room servers and managers, bartenders and sommelier, dishwashers, prep cooks, bakers and pastry chefs, line cooks, expeditor, sous chef, and chef who holds the lead position in the kitchen. It is, and must be, a team effort. Be that resource for them.

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Front of House Customer Experience Dine-in Training 474

7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Solution: Team management software that handles scheduling, time clocking, and payroll in one place. That's why they were excited when 7shifts, their team management software, added payroll to the platform. Now, when managers confirm the timecards are accurate, Tiffany just clicks 'Submit payroll'.

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7 Shifts

JULY 22, 2022

Here’s how 7shifts team management platform can help you turn your best summer ever. With Shift Pool , managers get less last-minute phone calls but can still monitor and approve all changes - it's a win-win! Task Management. Event management. Manager Log Book. Even managers need summer vacation!

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JANUARY 23, 2024

It means understanding employee availability and managing employee requests for time off and even last-minute shift changes. A schedule that employees can access online — and that restaurant managers can easily change on the fly — works better for everyone. But it isn’t simple.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

With these new funds, I'm tremendously grateful to be able to accelerate our mission— to simplify team management and improve performance for restaurants. All of this is critical for building the best possible management product for you. Like many of our restaurant partners, I grew up working in the restaurant industry. Keep the fire!

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Hospitality Hiring Communication Training 448

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

2020 marked the beginning of a new era for restaurant management. But those who are qualified to speak on the subject are the ones doing the work day in and day out trying to untangle the web that is restaurant management in 2023 and beyond. In the restaurant business, the only constant is change. Here's what we found.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

That's why we created free templates to help you manage your restaurant team. It means understanding employee availability and managing employee requests for time off and even last-minute shift changes. It means understanding employee availability and managing employee requests for time off and even last-minute shift changes.

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AUGUST 2, 2024

By tracking metrics like customer retention and employee turnover rate, contribution margin, and menu item profitability, restaurant managers can identify each area’s strengths and what areas need improvement. Use this data to establish clear and specific goals and adjust your strategies as needed.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 23, 2022

From the dishwasher to the prep cook, line cook to sous chef, and server to restaurant manager – food cost percentages must be something that everyone takes on as a job requirement. Train to these standards and manage them. Every employee must be involved in this process – not just management.

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APRIL 25, 2022

Access to these numbers can ensure your managers make smarter decisions when it comes to ordering inventory and scheduling staff. In the long term, you can consult with the heads of these trailing locations alongside those who manage thriving ones to uncover what sets them apart. Identify your least most profitable items (and stores).

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AUGUST 15, 2022

We've also included a roundup of interview best practices you should be aware of before showing up to speak to the hiring manager. For instance, were you responsible for restaurant employee scheduling or managing a log book ? A hiring manager wants to know how you handle a very real, stressful part of the job. Table of Contents.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Delivery, scheduling, inventory management, reservations, and guest management have seen technological advancements over the past few years, and it's just the beginning. Restaurant employee scheduling software Other than having a good product, your staff and how you manage them is the ultimate marker of restaurant success.

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AUGUST 21, 2024

Keep Restaurant Communication Channels Open When staff can easily access to managers, they will be more likely to bring up problems so that they can be resolved before it’s too late. As a restaurant manager, you may understand your mom’s struggle in a new light. Have a Process for Change Management Restaurants are dynamic businesses.

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7 Shifts

DECEMBER 16, 2022

their leadership sees team management as their greatest responsibility. We used a piece of software called When I Work , and it's supposed to do a lot of the same things that 7shifts does in terms of like scheduling, labor management, and communication. The team turned to 7shifts to help them manage their workforce.

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MARCH 28, 2023

relies on 7shifts to stay better connected to their team, manage their work schedules, and get paid. Over the past eight years, we’ve seen how transparency evolves into trust between management and their teams. Fahad Hanif of The Halal Guys We want to make 7shifts a one-stop-shop for all your Team Management and HR needs.

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Hiring Hospitality Management Management 370

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AUGUST 18, 2024

But the challenges don’t stop there—once open you have to focus on improving processes, managing labor schedules, and controlling restaurant costs. Not only do you have to manage many costs including, labor, equipment, and food—but you have to do it while dealing with inevitable price increases. This is only a guideline.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

As a restaurant manager or operator, you are the driving force in productivity – leading your staff and keeping customers happy. However, productivity is more easily trained than managed. Many restaurant operators juggle multiple locations, and adding managers adds another link in the chain of command to manage.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Restaurant employee scheduling software can make this process easier, letting employees manage their shifts while allowing you to keep track of changes. Train your managers well In the same survey we did for 1,500 active restaurant employees, nearly half of them mentioned leaving their jobs due to poor management.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 13, 2023

Each of those “departments” will require some level of unique kitchen management (sous chef) and specialists to support the uniqueness of function. Remember that being “the chef” will take you away from much of the day-to-day cooking, the adrenaline rush, and the team excitement that drew you to the kitchen in the first place.

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Hotels Point of Sale Cash Management Training 440

7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Cooks and back-of-house employees tend to work with inventory management software and kitchen display technology. Managers have to deal with all of the above, on top of restaurant accounting software, online review management, and others. Waiters, servers, and managers alike need to juggle countless customer requests.

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Front of House Back of House Kitchen Safety Food Safety 370

7 Shifts

APRIL 14, 2022

These raises have certainly helped employee standard of living, but they also require more accurate multi location scheduling and team management to keep menu costs low and the restaurant profitable. Recommended Reading: How To Manage Teams Across Multiple Restaurant Locations. Use it for manager performance evaluations.

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Small Business Restaurant Law Customer Experience Management 370

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JUNE 29, 2022

Proper Team and Labor Management Tools. For easy visibility into team management documents, some franchisors choose to specify which team management and scheduling software must be used by the restaurant. Recommended Reading: How To Manage Teams Across Multiple Restaurant Locations. Standardize Task Management.

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