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Let’s be honest, it’s been a tough couple of years for hospitality – but here we are in another December, and despite everything your hospitality businesses are welcoming guests celebrating the festive season. We can’t help but be reflective when the year draws towards its close. Looking back on the previous...
It’s easy to get lost in the day-to-day routine of your job and lose sight of the way your hospitality career is benefiting your personal and professional growth. Whether working in hospitality is your passion, or simply a stepping stone in your career path, your experience will give you a...
A tronc, or service charge pool, is a special arrangement between business and staff that allows the fair distribution of staff tips, gratuities and service charge collected by the business in bars, restaurants, hotels or casinos. You may have seen text such as 'A discretionary service charge of 12.5% has been...
Managing your restaurant’s deposits at Christmas
I have some clients that effectively start their Christmas preparation in January. Yes – they simply cannot wait to go through another 4-6 weeks of utter lunacy all over again that they start planning just weeks after the big party has ended. Or, if you look at...
There are a few different ways people will react to reading the title of this blog post... Some may be reading keenly, because who doesn’t want to successfully offload some of their work?! Some will roll their eyes, because delegating responsibilities may seem like a luxury they can’t afford – ultimately this...
I wish I were right in saying "gone are the days of paper based clocking in and out", but unfortunately people still use antiquated ways of recording staff time instead of moving to cloud based systems like Opsyte. Why do I know people still use pen and paper? Because they are...
Onboarding new staff is an integral part of running a business. This process has many stages that can take place over the employee’s first few months. Among other things, during onboarding the employee will:
Is the UK’s national minimum wage going up in 2022?
Yes! The national minimum wage is going up in 2022 on 1st April – as announced by Rishi Sunak in October 2021 as part of his budget. 23 and over = £9.50 21 to 22 = £9.18 18 to 20 = £6.83 Under 18 = £4.81 Apprentice...
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has offered the hospitality sector a 50% discount on business rates for the next year. He will also introduce “draught relief” which will apply a new lower rate of duty on draught beer and cider. It will particularly benefit community pubs who do 75% of their trade on...
This is both a simple and a complicated question at the same time… Monitoring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) is vital for you to be able to track how well your business is performing and optimize your spending! There isn’t a one size fits all...Restaurant KPIs - where do you start?
Managing your hospitality staff rota can take a lot of time and effort: planning shifts, making sure you’re appropriately staffed, factoring in holiday and sickness, keeping your staff up to date... It’s a big task, and one that’s important to do well to optimise...How Effectively Are You Planning Your Rota?
You most probably are aware of the reduction to 5% of specific VAT supplies in the hospitality industry, which the Chancellor introduced on 8th July 2020 to help the sector through COVID. The Chancellor then extended the 5% VAT until the end of September 2021. From 1st October 2021 any VAT category...
