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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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A Message to New Restaurant Managers
Restaurant industry research suggests that one in five restaurant positions are filled by people who have been promoted from within. That means many new restaurant managers move into a position where they’re suddenly supervising the same people they were working...
Why Restaurant Owners Love Using Their LMS
An LMS is a learning management system designed to help owners, managers, and trainers assign and track online employee training. The restaurant industry was a little late to the online training game, but today the majority of restaurants use some sort of an LMS to...
Restaurant Training from the Top Down
When you think of restaurant training, the first thing that pops into your mind is probably basic entry-level training. After all, your guests will feel it if the new line cook can’t survive the dinner rush or a server can’t recite today’s specials. These topics are...
On the Receiving End
So you’ve done your homework and placed orders with the vendors offering the best deals and the best service. The orders still need to be delivered and checked in. The receiving dock is one area where costly mistakes frequently occur, and it is the first place you...
Telephone Skills: Do Your Employees Have Them?
It seems simple enough. The phone rings. The phone is answered. Story over. Except… your employees' telephone skills may say more about your operation than your menu (or, at least, that’s the perspective of the customer on the phone). Too often, when we’re flying...
Play Restaurant Safety Bingo
Safety is a primary concern of any restaurant operation and not only because of the escalating costs of worker’s compensation claims. When an employee gets hurt on the job, the entire staff suffers. So does the service provided to your guests. Restaurant safety...
Managing Different Generations
If your situation is like most restaurant managers, your staff list might look like a multi-generational family tree. It's common for operations in the hospitality industry to employ people of all different ages and generations. From the teenager who is trying to...
ICYMI: Our Best Restaurant Social Posts from the Past Year
After previously taking a look at our most popular restaurant articles and most asked about training modules from 2018, we today turn our attention to social media. Check out the restaurant social posts below and make sure to follow our main pages on Facebook...
Top 5 Restaurant Training Programs
No train? No gain! Here at Ready Training Online, we develop online restaurant training programs that increase sales, improve service, and support teamwork. Check out our top five most popular restaurant training topics below. Teaching Servers to Sell Many restaurant...
Learning Styles in Restaurant Training
Have you ever wondered why you can walk some employees through a new procedure and they catch on right away, while other employees take a little longer? People learn in different ways. It really is as simple – and as complex – as that.Understanding Learning StylesJust...
The Best of Service That Sells! in 2018
Check out the Service That Sells! articles our readers we’re most interested in throughout 2018. How to Work the Room for Restaurant Managers Do you manage the floor, or do you work the room? Do you ask, “Is everything okay?” or do you expect more than just “okay”...
The 4 Cs of Leadership Potential
Restaurant staffing is a challenge for almost all managers, and that challenge goes far beyond just finding people to cover today’s shift. For any business to grow in the long-term, it needs to fill a continuing cycle of leadership positions. Most restaurant managers...
