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Strengths-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats Analysis

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The purpose of a S.W.O.T. Analysis is to determine your: Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities  Threats You have the opportunity to analyze your business clinically without sugar-coating poor performance, or areas that require improvement.  Evaluate your marketing and planning strategies, ask the question, what is working and what is not working? Once you have determined your challenges …

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Portion Control & Production Staff Duties

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Consistency is the name of the game. If your portion sizes vary from one day to another or from one shift to another you will have guests that realize there is inconsistency and you will create complaints. Secondly, you will have fluctuating food costs from week to week, and your cash flow will be a …

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How to write a standard operating procedure for your restaurant

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How will we define restaurant operations management procedures? “Restaurant operations management procedures are various activities, procedures, controls and checks that are carried out in a restaurant to form a comprehensive coping mechanism or system to ensure that the restaurant business remains in business and sustainable “.  These activities include however are not limited to: Accounting …

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Checking in and receiving of deliveries and capturing the invoice

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Receiving deliveries and checking in the order is the start of one of the most important responsibility circles in your business. This is the first step in checking quality and quantity, two of the most determining factors in your food cost. If the quality is poor you will have stock losses and if you sign …

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Electrical Consumption Control Sheet

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Electricity is one of the few overheads that we cannot go without and where we have a choice of how we will manage the consumption thereof. Life happens and the speed of everything happening around us causes us to become driven on autopilot.  This preserves us to an extent unfortunately it also causes us to …

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To Monitor your Expenses follow these Steps

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There is absolutely no reason for stock items not to balance between items used and items sold. Especially items that are packed singular or used as it is received from the supplier. a Can of coke is a simple example.  Balancing of items becomes slightly more complicated when you manufacture and pack an item. a …

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Performance Improvement Plan (PIP): A support mechanism for employees to improve their performance

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Is PIP appropriate? PIP should be used when there is a commitment to help the employee improve, not as a start to the termination process. Create a list of the performance deficiencies, dates, detailed explanations, previous guidance given to the employee.  Review the most recent performance appraisal to see if the issue is new or …

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Manufacturing In-house & Capturing the Data

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Working with products takes skill and experience to maintain the integrity of the item you are working with.  Frozen and or refrigerated items – each time a product is frozen and defrosted it loses flavour and moisture. When you look at the icicles in cells they are very sharp pointy crystals and these sharp pointy …

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How clean is your hospitality business? You are challenged!

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Are your employees and guests safe against pests? Restaurants, commercial kitchens, and other businesses in the foodservice industry have a responsibility for protecting public health by preventing contamination of food and transmission of pest-borne diseases inside their premises. Food safety legislation mandates that food handling businesses terminate pests, and prevent food contamination by taking effective …

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How do you become more than just another restaurant?

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“ Local is lekker “drives the fact that you support local. From the locals to the locals this will support and drive the fact home that you are not just there to take from the community you also give back and build. Volunteer services in your local community. Drive a vegetable garden for the local …

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The Value of Consistently Training your Staff & the Increased Longevity of your Business

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Visualize a realistic training plan. Have a vision that you can alter and update regularly as required.  Regular assessment and investment in training. Regularly update your S.W.O.T. analysis [strengths, weakness, opportunities, threats ] and determine your training need. Keep an eye on the future and conceptualize flow from one topic to another. This will ensure …

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Gas Safety & Control Sheet

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Due to the volatility of working with gas and open flames it is imperative to keep a streamlined Health and Safety System. Secondly, we want to ensure the availability of the various gas products we require for optimal operations and availability. The Health and Safety Check sheet is completed monthly.  The Gas Safety and Control …

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Do you have a New Employee Handbook for Induction Training Purposes?

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Employee Handbook Planning and layout As a small business owner, you can help keep yourself out of legal hot water by clearly spelling out on paper what you expect of the people who work for you. A successful employee handbook helps cut down on misunderstandings.  The tips below will help you create a document that …

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Washing your Hands Correctly

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Touching people and or surfaces, you accumulate germs on your hands.  You can infect yourself with these germs by touching your eyes, nose, or mouth, or spread them to others.  Washing your hands frequently can help limit the transfer of bacteria, viruses, and other microbes. Always read labels to get instructions BEFORE using chemicals. Always …

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Restaurant Employee Wages and Benefits: Do they earn a living wage?

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The Dessert [Part three] We left each other last time coming to the following conclusion. Now that we have established the requirement for benefits and the estimated costs of affording these, we have to plan how we would consider phasing these costs into a basic entry-level wage or salary. How do we break these exuberant …

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