Leaders Manage Employee Work Schedules

Hospitality & Restaurant Management

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    How Independent Operators Can Maximize Labor Productivity

    As operators compete for labor in a scarce labor market, they will have to boost compensation to fully staff their units. That said, even in this age of continuing automation, you can't run a successful restaurant without reliable hourly employees. Treating staff like a commodity is an invitation to ...

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    Employee Schedule Change Form

    Particularly if you employ students, employee schedules and availability to work change several times during a year. Document their request for a schedule change with the Employee Schedule Change Form.

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    How to Create the Ideal Labor Budget

    Labor cost is the biggest expense for most restaurants. Learn how to improve your scheduling and labor budgeting practices using tools you already have. Receive practical tips to create an ideal labor budget unique to your restaurant. How to Create the Ideal Labor Budget

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    Restaurant Labor Schedule Template

    The Restaurant Schedule Template is a Microsoft Excel® workbook consisting of a simple to use set of spreadsheets designed to reduce the time it takes to prepare staffing schedules. User defined descriptions, designed to eliminate typing of repetitive data, can be entered as needed for up to 20 different ...

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    Master Staffing Worksheet

    The Master Staffing Worksheet can be used effectively to establish scheduling guidelines based on the forecasted guest count for upcoming weeks.

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    Employee Shift Roster

    Use the Shift Roster as a quick reference to who is working the current shift, their scheduled start and finish times and a place to log in each employees' actual start and finish times as the shift progresses.

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    Restaurant Manager's Shift Card

    The Restaurant Manager's Shift Card is a quick-reference tool for the Manager on Duty (MOD), giving the manager instant access to an agenda of all the tasks that need to be completed during the shift, such as vendor orders, opening and closing checklists, appointments, phone calls to be made, marketing ...

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    Restaurant Schedule Template - Simple

    This version of our Restaurant Schedule Template has a simple design and is ideally suited for use as a labor budgeting tool. It can be used to create schedules and labor budgets for virtually any type of food and beverage establishment, including full service, counter service, fine dining and bars.