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Employee Feedback – Are You Doing It Right?
Guess what? Your employees can’t read your mind. The only way for them to know for sure what you want them to do (and what you don’t want them to do) is for you to tell them. When you do it right, delivering employee feedback has many benefits. Teamwork improves, you...
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Employee Feedback – Are You Doing It Right?
Guess what? Your employees can’t read your mind. The only way for them to know for sure what you want them to do (and what you don’t want them to do) is for you to tell them. When you do it right, delivering employee feedback has many benefits. Teamwork improves, you...
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Is Your Guest Your Top Priority?
Most restaurant managers would say their guests are their top priority. Unfortunately, though, how their restaurant service training programs support this service goal isn't always spot on. There are so many details associated with running a restaurant that it’s easy...
Waitstaff Training: Serving from the Guest Perspective
One of the tricks to good service is anticipating what guests want before they know what they want. In your waitstaff training, remind team members that they don’t have to be mind readers, but they do need to search for cues. Go over these restaurant training tips at...
Making the Grade: Reward Student Employees
What gets rewarded gets done, especially when it comes to restaurant training programs. It's a fact of restaurant life that a large number of employees are working their way through school. So why not use their academic goals to enhance your service and sales goals?...
What Managers Can Do to Create Guest Loyalty
When we think marketing, we think getting people in the door… and those people we’re targeting are often customers who are visiting for the first time. The theory is “if they try us, they’ll like us,” but the truth is getting new customers is almost ten times more...
Performance Management for Restaurants
To many managers in the restaurant business, the words “performance management” conjures up images of annual performance reviews or write-ups about poor performance. In truth, though, it is much more far-reaching than that. Performance management is less about what...
The Turnover Epidemic
If turnover isn’t one of your restaurant’s greatest ongoing challenges, you’re either operating on another planet or you’ve employed the services of a robotics company to supply quality workers. Because every owner, operator and manager we’ve talked to has identified...
How to Shave 20 Hours off Your Workweek
As a restaurant manager, nothing about this line of work takes you by surprise. Nothing, that is, except the fact that even now, as the manager running the show, you still put in 65- to 70-hour workweeks. You can blame the demands of “hands-on” restaurant management,...
10 Ways to Write a Restaurant Strategic Plan
Need direction to develop a restaurant strategic plan? Give it a good SWOT. What we mean is, take the time to document your operation’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. A SWOT analysis is the basis of your strategic plan. Here are some tips to make...
Smart Restaurant Staffing
With the labor market growing across all industries, restaurants are feeling the pinch. As more jobs become available outside our industry, the labor pool for restaurant staffing shrinks. So what's a restaurant manager to do? Many feel like their only option is to...
Restaurant Hiring: Hospitality Begins at the Interview
Job interviews are stressful experiences for everyone. This holds true for restaurant hiring, too. Think about it. Do you feel comfortable talking about yourself for half an hour to convince someone you don’t even know that you’re competent, intelligent and a good...
The Success Formula for Restaurants
Put simply, the philosophy of Service That Sells! is about delivering hospitality and a customized experience for each guest the way he or she wants it to be. The success formula for restaurants is easy — execution each and every day is not. The formula goes like...
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Suggestive Selling in Quick Serve RestaurantsNo one wants to feel like a wallet with a person attached. Customers are individuals and want to be acknowledged that way. From the first day cashiers start working, train them to make eye contact, smile, learn the names of...
