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Make Me an Latte
Looking to fill a position at your restaurant or bar but tired of hiring employees that end up not working out? Try an audition process! Auditioning can be a great way to vet your options and move forward with new employees that are a sure-shot rather than a gamble!
An easy example would be for hiring a barista or bartender, choose a few different (of your most popular) drinks and have them make them for you. Old fashioned slightly off the mark? Maybe the next guy/girl can do better? Latte too dry? Time to check out the next candidate! You can easily gauge how much training a new employee will need just from a few simple tests performed in the interview process and decide based on actual performance rather than a potentially doctored up resume.
Auditioning can lead us to a much more solid and consistent staff with less turnover opportunity. For servers you can do a few short shifts to monitor how they perform under pressure and follow up with your guests for a “review” of sorts, maybe offer the opportunity to your regulars along with a giftcard or discount for their valued feedback and to show appreciation.
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If restaurants want to prep their business for the future they need to know what Millennials and Gen Z guests want. In terms of sports bar TV, that’s showing non-traditional sports.
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Sharing your guests’ social media post about your restaurant is great & easy social media content for your own accounts. Here’s how to best use it.
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Get your guests to promote your restaurant online by offering them free or discounted menu items in exchanged. It’s win-win!
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Improve the guest experience, turn tables faster, and give your staff bigger tips by listing suggested tip amounts at the bottom of guests’ checks. It’s math simple.
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Win points with hungry parents by keeping sturdy bathroom stools in your restaurants’ bathrooms. It’ll help kids go to the bathroom & clean their hands easier. BONUS: Your squat-preferring guests will also appreciate the leg up.
There’s precious space on your restaurant’s tabletop and an overly cluttered table can kill the guest experience. Here’s tips for doing a tabletop audit to make sure you’re not wasting your restaurant’s prime real estate.
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A long guest dwell time is stealing money from restaurant’s pockets. At the same time, trying to flag down a server to put in an order or pay their bill is a huge pain point for guests. Why not kill two birds with one stone with tableside technology?
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Restaurant operators can make their life easier and make every marketing buck go further by teaming up with national brands and utilizing their restaurant promotions.
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If your restaurant’s tabletops are always a giant mess, it might be time to invest in some tabletop condiment caddies. It’ll help keep tables tidy and condiments easy to find. Your restaurant’s guests and servers will thank you for it.
Improve the guest experience by offering them individual checks or check splitting from the get-go. On top of that, follow this other advice to make sure the check splitting experience goes smoothly.