Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Next, posting a paper-based schedule in one communal spot (like a breakroom) forces employees to come into the workplace to see when they’re going to work. They might even have to come back when the schedule changes or when they need to request time off. Such a practice can cause a significant amount of risky contact.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 12, 2024

While there are a host of compelling use cases for AI in the restaurant industry, many restaurant operators today are leveraging AI to transform back-of-house operations. Enhance Staffing and Scheduling Staff scheduling is one of the most challenging tasks for restaurant operators.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 1, 2022

Providing the restaurant’s team with tools that streamline operations and create efficiencies, keeps them front of house, enabling them to do what they do best: make delicious food, build and work on great teams, and provide a superior guest experience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Particularly impacted by the staffing shortage, restaurants are struggling to beat the labor crisis, with staffing shortages felt in both back-of-house and front-of-house staff. Although employment numbers are on the upswing, employment at eating and drinking establishments was still 1.5

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 13, 2021

Many operators say they are looking to bolster their back-of-house capabilities in the coming year. For example, if you have separate software vendors for inventory, labor and scheduling, purchasing, and other operational tasks, you may be able to bring everything together into a single back-of-house platform.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 19, 2021

Rather than rely on manager estimates, you can harness your data and get optimized schedules based on your forecasted sales. App-Based Tools for Scheduling and Checklists. Predictive scheduling gives your managers back hours spent writing the schedule. Labor can similarly benefit from a tech upgrade.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Breaking down chats into short segments allows your staff (especially bartenders) to quickly navigate through customers who haven’t been helped yet and circle back to build relationships until more customers arrive. The Solution: Adopt tech solutions to automate back of house tasks Costing your menu can be incredibly time consuming.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 27, 2024

She previously spent three years as an executive recruiter for restaurants, and her recruitment experience varies from fast food chains to fine dining, and for roles ranging front of house, back of house and management. Applicants only need to insert the bare minimum amount of information to enter the candidate pool.

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7 Shifts

MAY 27, 2021

Restaurant schedules shuffle all the time. While some managers dread the thought of a seasonal, monthly, or weekly schedule adjustment, others rely on it. This practice of planned changes to employee schedules is known as rotating scheduling – and about 5% of hospitality employees work this way. Table of Contents.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 21, 2024

Similar to how leaving a door open breaks down barriers, using a mobile scheduling and communication app lets staff get in touch with management without obstacles. Your employee scheduling platform may already have this capability built-in so you don’t have to look for a separate tool. DOWNLOAD THE GUIDE 2. Video Version

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The Restaurant Times

MARCH 13, 2023

The back-of-house (BOH) at a restaurant is the behind-the-scenes area of the restaurant — it works like an engine and keeps the restaurant going. While it is not visible to the customers, the restaurant’s services get hampered without back-of-house. Why is Back of House Important?

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 23, 2024

A restaurant’s schedule is its framework for success. Effective employee scheduling means finding the right mix of shifts and shift types for your business. Table of Contents: What makes a great employee schedule? A great employee schedule doesn’t just happen. A strong schedule should check each of these boxes.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Do the best you can to have your staff to remove items from walls, bar areas, back of house etc. Prepare them before hand and schedule accordingly when this process happens. Back of House When it comes to the kitchen you want to paint your space with the highest quality semi-gloss paint available.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 18, 2020

Maintaining a distinct separation between front-of-house and back-of-house. Creating a buffered, contactless front-of-house. Best practices for approaching front-of-house and back-of-house operations. Rethinking roles and responsibilities front-of-house and back-of-house.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 24, 2022

It’s important that front-of-house and back-of-house staff members have clear lines of communication with you and with each other. Take the time to schedule regular oneon-one check-ins with your employees. Restaurants can be busy, scattered places. Make Health a Priority.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Schedules are made, payroll is run, and employees checked-in with—but it's tough to know if you're working as efficiently or as profitably as possible. You can use these reports to compare worked hours and wages against your schedules and targets to find your biggest gaps. 7shifts worked hours, overtime, breaks and wages report.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 28, 2023

Owners remain grounded in traditional ways of doing business – you have front-of-house staff taking care of the customer from service to payment, and you have back-of-house staff taking care of the food and management. Are you struggling to fill roles in the front-of-house? Back-of-house?

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Automation can streamline these efforts, as everything from AI-powered training courses to scheduling and onboarding software save time and mitigate friction when introducing new employees. Automation technologies can improve back of house operations as well. Optimize Food Safety Protocols. billion tons and costing companies $1.2

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InnQuest

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Housekeeping: Housekeeping is responsible for maintaining the cleanliness and orderliness of guest rooms, public areas, and back-of-house spaces. Preventive maintenance schedules and swift repairs are essential to prevent service disruptions and ensure guest safety.

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7 Shifts

MARCH 23, 2022

Problem : Manual scheduling processes that took too much time, siloed operations, and didn't resonate with a younger, tech-saavy workforce. Solution: Cloud-based scheduling software that brings together operations across 16 locations, keeps staff accountable, and gives them tools to increase efficiency. Complicated, manual scheduling.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

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. Not only are pen-and-paper or spreadsheet schedules costly when it comes to your time—they are useless when it comes to data.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 1, 2021

As such, your first consideration should be getting your scheduling right. They’ll have insights on how best to divide and schedule the components of the full renovation to suit your timing needs. In between major changes it may help to implement some front-of-house upgrades using minimal capital and labor.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The shortage is especially acute for back-of-house employees, such as prep cooks, line cooks, and dishwashers. Some restaurants are increasing wages to at least $15 per hour or experimenting with sharing tips between front of house and back of house to create more of a team environment.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

A recent survey of job holders – including front-of-house and back-of-house restaurant workers – showed that 55 percent were planning to switch jobs, citing “lack of recognition” as the number one reason for the change. These acts of recognition go further than you may think. The Takeaway.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In addition, AI can be used to automate and improve many back-of-house processes such as sales forecasting, purchasing, inventory, scheduling, and accounting. Automation is key in saving operators time and money by improving efficiency and streamlining repetitive tasks.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

After that, the most popular back-office technologies were accounting software (52%, up from 31% in 2018) and payroll software (50%, up from 28% in 2018), according to a study from Toast. That’s where restaurant scheduling software comes in handy. Restaurant Scheduling Software for managers that want to stay in control.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2021

This includes raising wages, boosting benefits such as offering early wage access, and leveraging technology to improve scheduling, automate processes and streamline operations, ensuring a seamless shift every time. The digitization of the kitchen and back-of-house continues to accelerate.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

AI usage has also skyrocketed, primarily in the back-of-house. Operators who invest in back-of-house efficiencies like digital inventory tracking and labor forecasting are more likely to win the battle against higher food and labor costs. Technology is critical for efficiency and workforce management. 'Out-of-the-Box'

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Trying to use a one-size-fits-all approach – Generic training programs can often overlook the specific risks or challenges faced by front and back-of-house employees in a restaurant. For example, consider offering additional paid time off or allowing flexible scheduling to improve employee participation.

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Hotel Business

OCTOBER 29, 2024

“We still have a long way to go, but AI can help with predictive scheduling, taking into account employees’ days-off requests, their desired days that they want to work and the shifts they want to work,” he said. “That could take the scheduling responsibility out of the manager role.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 17, 2024

With only half of restaurants using advanced tools like scheduling software and performance tracking, there is a clear opportunity for growth. We've already seen how technology has transformed front-of-house operations with the rise of apps like UberEats and DoorDash, as well as advanced point-of-sale systems.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 19, 2020

As designers, we will need to develop safe storage solutions and possibly vestibules for back-of-house entrances, if needed. Others include extra wait stations with hand sinks and sanitizing storage or retrofits, as part of the front of house. Is there a design solution that is incorporated into the table or chair?

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7 Shifts

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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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 25, 2023

isolation in back of house). Unpredictable income and schedule. Expectations to pick up additional shifts. Low hourly wages with dependence on tips. No sense of purpose or value at work. Poor relationships with coworkers (e.g., Workplace culture where perfection is required and rarely acknowledged or rewarded.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We’re continuing to build our data infrastructure and are already leveraging AI for social media, content marketing, scheduling, supply chain, data mining and more all with the goal of benefitting our guest experience. Leveraging AI throughout all touchpoints and will not only be a trend but a need in 2025.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Improve Back-Office Processes. Labor costs have risen far faster than previous projections for the industry, with many brands raising minimum wages ahead of both legal mandates and their own schedules (Starbucks, McDonald’s).

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Hospitality Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Schedule social media posts Keep your social profiles active throughout the holidays. January customers are a little more forgiving and relaxed with new systems, and there’s usually a genuine interest in the ‘back of house’ operations – share some details and screenshots on your socials.

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