Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

Staffing also required adjustments, as many longtime servers hesitated to return. Of course, budgets were tight, and keeping up with shifting trends and algorithm changes felt like a full-time job. Now, five years later, business has largely returned to normal. Thank God, people accepted eating indoors again.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 29, 2023

As the couple’s anniversary dinner gracefully glides toward a sweet crescendo, the lead server strides into the kitchen to pick up a beautiful brulee, only to notice the rose-shaped garnish is missing — along with the pastry chef. Shouting, “I need a med-well steak on the fly; forgot to ring it in!”

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Have you ever walked into a restaurant, excited for a great meal, but the server can’t answer your questions about the menu? Front-of-house (FOH) staff, like servers and hosts, will need customer service training, upselling techniques, and communication skills.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 14, 2021

If you’re hiring for servers in your city but your competitor restaurants are bidding higher than you to have their jobs shown to people searching online, then job seekers will be their roles before yours. It is important that you have a recruitment marketing budget to drive top-of-funnel traffic in your hiring funnel.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Same thing with locations – which ones are turning a profit or are draining the budget? By subscribing to a SaaS solution, restaurants avoid the time and cost of acquiring and maintaining the overhead of server farms and software licenses and installation.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

How do you manage the restaurant’s budget and control costs? For example, they might talk about a disagreement between a server and a chef regarding food preparation times. For example, the manager might share how they implemented cross-training among the staff, like teaching servers to handle some basic tasks in the kitchen.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 13, 2023

Early on a sunny Sunday morning, the air is thick with humidity and the servers are reeling from consecutive busy services. While “shadowing” strategies pairing new staff with veteran servers may be tempting given limited time and budgets, the potential to pick up bad habits or dissonant messaging warrants significant caution.

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7 Shifts

APRIL 24, 2020

Understanding the financial relief programs available to you, as well as getting a handle on budgeting, can help you better navigate your new financial situation. Budgeting through COVID-19 Making every penny count during self-isolation relies on proper budgeting. Here are a few simple steps you can take to manage your funds.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 15, 2023

Sixty-five percent of consumers say dynamic pricing would make the decision of where and when to eat more difficult; 63 percent say it would make it harder to budget their restaurant spending. Is it too risky, particularly now coming out of the pandemic and with people paying more attention to their budgets?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 10, 2024

Some even build thievery into their business plans, knowing that accessories and decor will walk and they budget $10,000 or $20,000 a year to replace them. Ask your server how to purchase them.” But I think it’s a mistake to allow – or even encourage – guests to take your stuff.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 9, 2021

There should be clear paths for both customers and servers. Also, make sure the furniture layout does not impede customer or server movements. Cost : Fortunately there are many budget-friendly options for restaurant flooring that range from luxury vinyl, carpet, laminate to exotic woods. Create a Stunning Entrance.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Break down labor budgets by department. What if the back of house is perfectly staffed, but you have servers hanging out without customers? Department-based budgeting unlocks those insights. 7shifts Labor Budgets By Department. 7shifts Labor Budgets By Department. 7shifts Operations Overview Report.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 13, 2020

Is there a single server at risk? What about data backups kept on an off-site server or in the cloud? For owners who already employ IT staff or work with an IT partner : Provide the budget and time necessary to successfully safeguard the restaurant and all of its digital infrastructure. Where is the data stored?

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 1, 2022

GMs have a lot of different responsibilities, including managing store operations, inventory, handling guest experience and managing budget. Most came up through the ranks, starting as a server or a cashier before eventually becoming a general manager.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Servers and dishwashers are in the highest demand, and one-third of restaurants report that they are short on both positions.” Traditional job advertising allows you to have a fixed budget while using old job data to inform decisions as to where to post your jobs. Understanding these changes will be the key to achieving success.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 11, 2024

Management takes on multiple jobs throughout the restaurant including hiring, marketing, maintaining the budget, operations and keeping customers and staff happy. A customer will complain, the expo line will get backed up, a server may fall and drop an order. Having a large menu puts added pressure on the kitchen and servers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 24, 2022

Technology automates a lot of time-consuming and cumbersome tasks, improves operational efficiency, gives you the tools to stay within budget, and helps you gain visibility into expenses and costs. But it doesn’t stop there. Tech can also help your restaurant: 1. Cover more ground with fewer employees.

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7 Shifts

MAY 3, 2021

Add indoor and outdoor servers, dedicate a busser to just patio tables, or even create a department for your outdoor bar. Never again will you have five servers staring at the downpour and a kitchen with no tickets. If you are staffing up for the season, 7shifts’ Works plan has no limit on the number of employees you can add.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

When a server or drive-thru attendant greets you by name and asks, “Would you care for your usual chicken sandwich meal with a large fry?,” With the right consumer marketing solution, your restaurant can focus its efforts and budget on high-value customers, instead of those who’ve already churned.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Are you prepared for how that might affect your budget? That includes server staff , as well as kitchen robots who flip burgers or prep other food items. Staffing Today and Tomorrow. We know how the pandemic has changed things, so what now? Is your operation in a position to rehire lost staff? Tech Trainers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 24, 2023

If your budget is $250, we’ll make it work, including whatever gratuity or delivery fees are involved. We want that person to be able to earn money in a couple of different ways, so if they have a party of 50 and we have servers as well as the catering person who set it up, gratuity might be 22 percent.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 28, 2020

Now, your online ordering app or website is the modern equivalent of a server taking the order, delivering the food and processing the payment. Alternatively, smaller restaurants do not typically have the budget to invest in IT so need to rely on third party services to fill their gaps.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Restaurant staff and employees wearing masks and disposable gloves, including FOH (servers, bartenders, cashiers, etc.) Traditionally, the rule of thumb is to invest 50 percent into a budget of what one year of revenue will bring. A budget of $10,000-30,000 should suffice for most. and BOH (including cooks, chefs, etc.).

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Consider this: if you’re the customer at a restaurant and it takes your server 20 minutes just to take your drink order; that’s going to make you grumpy. A mobile ordering system serves more people faster and keeps them happy, not hangry. Is Your Refrigerator Running?

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 20, 2021

Managers, servers, kitchen staff all filled in on roles to handle the increasing volume of online orders as the country embraced digital dining. Yelp Kiosk was built in 2018 to help restaurants that didn’t have it in their budget to hire a dedicated host. Roles shifted too.

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7 Shifts

JULY 10, 2020

Having a specific goal will help you plan out your budget, labor needs, marketing strategy, messaging, and organization before the event. Set a budget ?? With your goal set, work backwards to determine your budget. When it comes to planning your schedule, you’ll want to work within your labor budget limits set above.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 5, 2021

To avoid a backlog like this, have your food runners, servers, or even front-of-house managers familiar and comfortable with bussing. Having a busser or food runner check-in with a table if the server is busy can give them experience with customer interaction. Schedule Based on Data. Watch for overtime and labor laws.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 1, 2023

More Equitable Compensation In years past, front of house personnel – servers, bussers, hostesses, etc. Also, BOH staff should establish a declining spending budget to account for weekly purchases and pinpoint how much budget remains for need-it-now food and ingredient purchases.

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7 Shifts

MAY 31, 2021

How is the restaurant's budget broken down between key expenses like food costs, labor, and fixed costs? What about when the server enters the wrong order in the POS and doesn't realize it until they get to the table? Upon returning with drinks, servers ask if the party is ready to order.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 23, 2024

For example, you can look at how many covers a server typically completes during service. For example, if you manage a restaurant that regularly does 150 covers on a Tuesday and a server can do 30 covers in an 8-hour shift, then you'll likely need 5 servers. Divide the production standards by the number of customers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2021

Employees check their balance approximately seven times per week, allowing them to manage their budgets and take control of their finances. Our servers have the capacity to serve a significantly increased number of guests. Two-thirds of new hires signing up for DailyPay.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 14, 2020

It takes a toll on your operational budget and staff morale. If servers tell you that the majority of customers can’t finish their salads, you could use this feedback to make portion sizes smaller and increase your profit margins. Why does turnover matter so much? Your staff are your restaurant’s eyes and ears.

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7 Shifts

JUNE 28, 2023

Chulita doesn't have traditional managers, but lead servers with different managerial responsibilities. Tara Edie, for example, is a Lead Server who also runs PR and Marketing for the brand. 7shifts has been able to keep us within our targets and budgets with such ease and efficiency.

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7 Shifts

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Give your team a small budget for supplies or an ingredient allowance and have them present their dish or drink to the rest of the team for a tasting at your next staff meeting. Have your servers keep a copy of their chits where they were able to upsell a guest to order all four. For the front-of-house, a cocktail or coffee drink.

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LimeTray

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Order Management Picture a busy night at your restaurant, with servers running around and orders flying init’s easy for things to get lost in the shuffle. Mobile POS Capabilities Mobile restaurant POS capabilities enable servers to take orders directly from the dining area using tablets or handheld devices.

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EATER

JULY 8, 2022

A few months after the first COVID-19 shutdown, restaurants furloughed and laid off cooks, servers, bartenders, and managers nationwide. Our opening budget of $50,000 gave us enough to outfit our brick-and-mortar with the bare minimum. In pre-pandemic times this budget would barely afford us a decent food truck. We panicked.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

With a growing number of technology providers entering the market in recent years, restaurant operators have also become more discerning as they manage already tight budgets. In California, for example, there is no longer a tipped minimum for servers, and minimum wage has jumped 33 percent from $11 per hour to $16.50.

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