Read another article today, kind of a follow up to the Glens Falls article we discussed a week or so ago, about the effects of NY State upping tipped workers’ minimum wage by 50% by the end of the year. The Saratogian talked to restaurant owners, tipped workers, and customers to get a perspective on …
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New rules for servers worrying restaurant owners
The article below from the Glens Falls Post-Star showed up in my feed. Glens Falls is a small resort town in the Adirondack mountains in NY. Very heavy summer traffic. The rest of the year is sporadic. Foliage in the fall, some ski traffic in the winter and that’s about it. The article is focusing …
Restaurant Industry Remained in Growth Mode During January
The good news continued through January for the restaurant industry. Foodservice Equipment & Supplies magazine posted an article on the National Restaurant Association’s Restaurant Performance Index for January 2015. The restaurant industry again showed expansion in January with an RPI of 102.7. Here are some of the highlights from the article: Seventy percent of restaurant …
Feds roll out new way to analyze food outbreak data
Interesting article from the University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy about the US Government improving methods for sifting through data to estimate which foods are contributing to outbreaks. They focused the report on the four main outbreaks: Salmonella, Escherichia coli O157, Listeria monocytogenes, and Campylobacter. It’s great that the government is focusing on …
How much money do we lose every year?
Having manager’s perform SMART Pre-Shift Inspections every meal period refocuses them on what is important to running a successful operation. The benefit of focus is something that I had to rediscover recently, but it makes so much sense. We don’t do enough as an industry to focus and ground our manager’s every single shift …
Restaurant Tech Restocked For Tomorrow And Beyond
Here’s a great article from TechCrunch on technology in the restaurant industry. A major focus of this article is on POS systems. Mobile POS systems are moving in on long time dominant systems such as Aloha and MICROS. It seems that mobile POS is the future. Either having guests swipe their own cards at the …