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8-Hour Rotating Shift Scheduling: How to Build the Perfect Schedule
Creating an 8-hour rotating shift schedule can be challenging but it's essential for businesses that operate around the clock. From ensuring fair workloads to maintaining employee satisfaction, a well-designed schedule can make a significant difference in productivity and morale. This guide will help you build the perfect schedule while addressing common challenges and highlighting the benefits of using scheduling software.

7 Easy Ways to Reduce Employee Turnover
Do you know what the root of a business’ problem is 90% of the time?
It’s employee turnover.

Your Wait Staff is your Sales Team: Reward Performance!
Your wait staff is an integral part of your restaurant’s success. This goes beyond managing tables and providing excellent customer service, although those two actions are vital to leaving a positive lasting impression on your patrons. Your wait staff also acts as your

Improving Sales Performance - Be Kind and Get Paid
There are many things you can do to help in improving sales performance for your restaurant. You can try the age old tactics of offering happy hour drinks and appetizers during slower times. You can invest in marketing or restaurant and menu redesign. You can

How to Change Organizational Behavior in Your Workplace
What is the key to business success? Is it having a great product? Controlling your expenses? Profit and loss management? Scheduling the right people at the right time? While your products and/or services matter, the real key to success – in any industry –
Scheduling Secrets Revealed - 5 Secrets to Success
Losing focus on different parts of your establishment is easy when you are busy with managerial duties. It may seem easier to quickly fill out a schedule last minute and send it out to employees without doing much research on staffing needs or employee availability, but this is a surefire way to frustrate employees to the point of poor performance. People are your most important asset! They drive your business and are the difference makers in a competitive market. One of the most important managerial duties is scheduling employees. As a scheduling manager, it is you who dictates where your most valuable assets are working and directly impacting your sales. Yet we know it can be difficult to dedicate the time you need for scheduling with everything else going on! To help you make the best scheduling decisions possible, here are five basic tips for scheduling employees.

Birds of a Feather - 4 Restaurant Recruitment Strategies
The perception of indifference from employees is the number one reason why a person will never do business with a company again. In a restaurant where a customer spends all of their time interacting with employees, this impression can make or break your business.

The ABC’s of Easier Employee Scheduling with Technology
One of the most dreaded part of management is dealing with employee scheduling. Whether you have five employees or 50, trying to manage and organize everyone’s availability into a working schedule is a daunting and never ending task. Luckily, the process does not have to

Building a Sales Driven Culture
One of the most difficult industries to work in is the restaurant world. From the precise timing of ingredient quantity purchases to keeping the customer experience strong with superior service, managing a restaurant requires a well-oiled machine approach. A fundamental way