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Your COVID-19 Survival Strategy: Now’s the Time to Maximize Profitability

Modern Restaurant Management

Prior to COVID-19, many restaurant owners were challenged by food, beverage and labor costs. You can keep your servers and provide traditional table service. However, if you previously assigned servers five-to-six table sections, I recommend assigning them smaller, three-table sections upon reopening. Worried about tips?

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Prioritize Mental Health: Strategies for Managing Stress in Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

To get through a long shift, chefs, managers, servers, hosts and waitstaff need to make wise decisions and take care of their health. Prioritizing self-care during shifts and at home will help ensure a longer, happier career in the food, beverage and hospitality industry. Working in a restaurant is a marathon, not a sprint.

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Eat, Drink and Be Merry: Properly Prepping Your Bar for the Holiday Rush

Modern Restaurant Management

Especially when pairing with craft beer, utilize BreweryDB.com for a simple, free resource to get direct-from-the-brewery product knowledge that includes flavor notes, glassware suggestions, and food pairing ideas for the specific beers on your menu. What are the manual processes of inventory management that are frustrating operations?

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Restaurants Can Fight the Bite of Chargebacks (Infographic)

Modern Restaurant Management

Consumers adjusted; between 2019 and 2020, online ordering for food/beverage rose by a record 93 percent. Customers placed orders from their phones or computers, paying by credit card and having food dropped off without so much as talking to the delivery person. Then came Covid.

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A Concise Guide to Hotel Inventory Management

InnQuest

Food and Beverage: Restaurants, bars and room service are vital revenue streams. Inventory here includes food, beverages, and kitchen equipment. Technology Infrastructure: Inventory includes computers, servers, point-of-sale systems and network equipment.

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What to know about New Jersey tip laws

7 Shifts

It’s easy to see how servers at a high-end restaurant will consistently exceed the minimum wage, even if a slice of their tips goes into a tip pool. In 2023, Sara, a server at Soda Pop Diner, makes, on average, $14.50 Servers, bartenders, bussers, and valet attendants could all be tipped employees. Let’s look at an example.

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xnPOS partners with Avero to help hotels optimize their F&B performance

Hospitality Net

is delighted to announce the integration of xnPOS to Avero, the leading Food & Beverage revenue management software. Leading hotel point of sale vendor Xn Global Systems Inc.

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