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Once a Year Marketing Adds Up
Filling out your restaurant marketing calendar can be tough, whether you’re trying to plan your social media content, lunch specials, or your events. A great way to handle one, or even all, of these problems is to embrace some yearly events! Anniversaries and...
Once a Year Marketing Adds Up
Filling out your restaurant marketing calendar can be tough, whether you’re trying to plan your social media content, lunch specials, or your events. A great way to handle one, or even all, of these problems is to embrace some yearly events! Anniversaries and...
Role-Play Ideas for Restaurant Training
Your restaurant employees have a lot to remember and sometimes, no matter how well you train them, it seems they’re still lacking in confidence or knowledge retention. Role-playing, when utilized as part of a blended-learning strategy, can help fill these knowledge...
Role-Play Ideas for Restaurant Training
Your restaurant employees have a lot to remember and sometimes, no matter how well you train them, it seems they’re still lacking in confidence or knowledge retention. Role-playing, when utilized as part of a blended-learning strategy, can help fill these knowledge...
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Training Servers to Stay Out of the Weeds
The sight is all-too common: A stressed-out server spinning out of control in his or her section. Table No. 1 needs a clean fork. Table No. 2 was just seated and the guests are scanning the restaurant for someone -- anyone -- to wait on them. Table No. 3 asked for...
Waitstaff Training: SERVE-US not SERVICE
How can you motivate – and empower – your servers to make more tips? Transform their style from "service' to "serve-us!" Here’s a quick lesson in providing serve-us to pass along to your servers at your next waitstaff training session. First, find out two things about...
Most Popular Restaurant Articles from 2019
The end of the year is a good time for reflection. Here at Ready Training Online, we’re reflecting on the articles restaurant managers were most interested in throughout 2019. If you missed them the first time around, take a look now! 1 - Letting the Well-Liked Go We...
What’s Your Training Plan?
To succeed in the restaurant business, you need to focus on giving your staff the tools they need to be successful. Your restaurant training plans are what will set you apart from other restaurants as you compete for both customers and employees. Check out the...
Pair Wine with Desserts for Increased Sales
Suggestively selling after-dinner drinks is a great way to bump up bar profits, but what about the guest who says, “I don’t do the hard stuff” and turns down the Irish Coffee, White Russian, or Grasshopper? You can still profit from after-dinner drink sales by...
Time Management for Restaurant Managers
Feeling a little stressed? Who isn’t?! In today’s busy world, and especially for restaurant managers, it’s impossible not to feel like you’re being pulled in a million different directions. The best way to minimize stress in your life is to implement time management...
‘Tis the Season to De-Stress Your Customers
Like it or not, the hustle and bustle of the holidays is about to be in full swing. What can you do to make customers really have a break when they visit your restaurant? Consider these tips for ways to build relationships that last after the season while boosting...
Keep Your Guests Safe This Holiday Season
People drink during the holiday season. They drink because they’re happy, they drink because they’re sad -- with emotions on overdrive during the holidays, one thing’s for sure: many of your guests will be ordering drinks. With profit margins general higher for...
How to Stay Sane During the Holidays
No matter what Charles Dickens may have led us to believe, Scrooge was not a banker. No, he worked in a restaurant and Tiny Tim was at Table Four spilling his drink and fighting with his brother. Well, maybe not, but that would definitely explain why Scrooge was such...
Train Servers to Sell More Appetizers
Server training on successful suggestive selling has to focus on multiple skills. Servers must have thorough product knowledge in order to describe food and beverage in mouthwatering detail. They need to use positive body language to reinforce their menu...
Server Training on Precision Service
Server training on precision service is about executing the basic mechanics of service in a seamless fashion so guests will know just how seriously your staff members take their jobs. When servers implement the strategies of precision service, guests have a better...
6 Ways to Increase Restaurant Check Averages without Servers
We all know that our best customers are the ones who are already in the booth. No matter how well you train your servers to increase restaurant check averages, during the rush of the shift they sometimes miss sales opportunities. Here are six ways that you can easily...
