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Pandemic Reflections: What Lessons Has the Restaurant Industry Learned?, Part Three

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurants sought to create smooth and convenient transactions while offering the same quality of food by leveraging different packing techniques to ensure it traveled well and the presentation was on point. Post-COVID there became a willingness to have more part time hires working up front.

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Reduce Training Retirements & Manual Tasks With These Three Automation Best Practices

Modern Restaurant Management

Simplify Front of House Processes. Many of these processes will remain even after the pandemic, presenting opportunities to deploy automation technologies to simplify front of house processes. Automation technologies can improve back of house operations as well. Optimize Food Safety Protocols.

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What is a Restaurant’s Front Of House (FOH) – Everything You Need To Know

The Restaurant Times

Front-of-house (FOH) refers to all activities and settings a patron will experience while dining at a restaurant, including the lobby and dining area. Hence, your restaurant’s front-of-the-house staff members should always maintain a high standard of personal hygiene and present a polished, welcoming image.

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Top-Effective Tech Solutions to Improve Profits

Modern Restaurant Management

Automation tools also provide value through mobile ordering apps, AI solutions, digital reviews apps, and online reservation software. It presents a handy bot that anyone can have in a convenient form in messenger that is making it easier to receive any news and notifications for the restaurant's owners.

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How Having A Long-Term Plan Can Help Restaurants Handle the Short-Term Crisis

Modern Restaurant Management

After speaking with restaurant owners and operators, we realized we needed to expand our product offering beyond just helping manage their front-of-house better with Yelp Waitlist and Yelp Reservations. A sudden crisis has a way of sucking us into the present moment. But coronavirus threw a wrench into that.

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Virtually Delicious: Setting the Table for Digital-First Dining

Modern Restaurant Management

Finally, find a place to cook and start filling orders, often alongside tickets from a traditional front-of-house. For Top Round Roast Beef in San Francisco, that meant running a fried-chicken joint, burger house, and ice-cream parlor all from within their existing sandwich shop. Presentation. Autonomous drone?

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‘The Bear’ Star Abby Elliott Studied Up for Her Role as Restaurant Manager

EATER

And so when it came time to prepare for her role as Natalie, Elliott turned first to Unreasonable Hospitality , the book written by The Bear co-producer and prolific restaurateur Will Guidara, for insight into how front-of-house employees approach their work.