Employee Scheduling Software Tips From Industry Vets
Restaurant employee scheduling can quickly become a nightmare trying to balance between shift planning, employee’s personal schedules and the restaurants needs. While the task of employee scheduling can become daunting quick, you can focus on the things you can control. With these employee
Continue Reading »Managers Can Schedule Anywhere with Technology
Being a restaurant manager comes with many responsibilities, and one of the least enjoyable to perform is scheduling employees. So often restaurant managers are still using paper calendars or Excel sheets that have to be constantly tweaked and updated every time employees make any changes
Continue Reading »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
Continue Reading »How Customer Service Skills & Goodwill Drive Sales
In food service, the mindset is that you spend hours of of training your employees year after year on customer service skills. This time of year is perfect to showcase your team’s excellent customer service skills. When you utilize your employee training to provide
Continue Reading »Staff Scheduling for the Holidays
For restaurants, the holidays are your best marketing opportunity. The focus during the holiday season for your restaurant is, of course, capturing sales. You may think this is cut and dry marketing, but your employees are the biggest part of growing your sales during the season. When you
Continue Reading »The Importance of Sales Forecasting Methods
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could have a crystal ball into your restaurant's future to see the sales that will come in? Think of all the planning you could accomplish - you would know how much staff to schedule, how much inventory to have in stock, and what you
Continue Reading »Sell the SIZZLE, Not the Steak: Increase Restaurant Sales
You have probably heard the saying “Sell the Sizzle, Not the Steak.” This essentially means you should be selling the benefits of your product instead of the features, or selling people what they want as opposed to what they need. Anyway you say it, this phrase
Continue Reading »How to Use Halloween to See Spookily-Good Restaurant Sales
Halloween is one of the most fun holidays throughout the year. People are looking for the best place to go where they can dress up, spend time with friends, and enjoy great drinks and eats. When you celebrate Halloween as a restaurant, you can take advantage of an
Continue Reading »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
Continue Reading »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.
Continue Reading »Another Round of New Features Added to Our Scheduling Software
As we continue our mission to make the best scheduling software available, we've added a handful of new features that will make your life much easier! We will continue to release new features as fast as we can build them, and always welcome your thoughts and ideas on how we
Continue Reading »New Feature - Setting Overtime to Manage the Risk of Pay or Play Penalties
We've added a new feature to the ShiftNote employee scheduling tool which will help managers to set overtime to manage the risk of Pay or Play Penalties. Currently managers could select from 40 or 50 hours worked in a week to be considered overtime, but we have added an
Continue Reading »The ShiftNote Employee Scheduling Software is Here!
We are so very excited to announce that we have released a new add-on product for the ShiftNote Digital Logbook that is going to make your life as a manager so much easier! Our employee scheduling software will allow you to create and edit schedules right from your ShiftNote
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