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How AI Can Help You Run a Better Restaurant
Artificial intelligence isn’t just for tech companies anymore—it’s quickly becoming a game-changer for restaurants of all sizes. From predicting customer demand to automating tedious tasks, AI can help you improve efficiency, reduce waste, and even strengthen your team culture.

How to Empower Employees with Schedule Control
In shift-based businesses, scheduling is more than just plugging names into time slots—it’s a major factor in employee satisfaction, retention, and productivity.

Building Habits with Your Manager Logbook
A manager logbook isn’t just a place to jot down what happened during a shift—it’s one of the most powerful tools you have to build consistency, improve communication, and make better decisions over time.

Automating Employee Schedules for Better Outcomes
In any shift-based business, the schedule isn’t just a calendar—it’s the heartbeat of the operation.

How to Build a 'No Drama' Team Culture
In shift-based workplaces—especially restaurants, hotels, and other high-pressure service environments—drama isn’t just a distraction. It’s a drain. It eats away at productivity, morale, and trust. It creates tension between shifts, drives good employees out the door, and makes every manager’s life harder than it needs to be.

What Great Shift Managers Do Differently
In the fast-paced world of shift work—whether you're managing a bustling kitchen, a busy hotel lobby, or a production floor—success doesn’t just come from showing up and ticking boxes. It comes from leadership. And great shift managers? They lead differently.

How to Write Shift Notes
Shift notes help keep everyone updated and provide a record of what happened. Knowing who, what, when, where, how, and why something happened is crucial for the shift-to-shift productivity of your business.
It's an easy way to record everyone in one location for managers to review. There's an old saying for someone starting their shift, "don't go looking for the fire until you've read the daily log notes." Something may be happening for a reason and before jumping right into a shift to take action, take a moment to absorb the information and get a sense of what's happening and why.

8-Hour Shifts: Pros, Cons, and Opportunities for Your Business
Operating a nearly non-stop business may be undertaking. The demanding excellent leadership, foresight, and planning from management, as well as commitment, dedication, and flexibility from staff members all come into play here.

15 Best Ideas For Streamlining Your Restaurant Operations
In today's restaurant operations, time is money. The best tools can save you both. Consider this the ultimate list of restaurant “hacks” – time-saving and cost-cutting resources that can bring a new level of efficiency to your operation.