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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Restaurant KPIs - where do you start? This is both a simple and a complicated question at the same time… Monitoring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) is vital for you…
How Effectively Are You Planning Your Rota?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…
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…
Home Office guidance on right to work checks changed on 1st July 2021. Click here for the direct article. The requirement for employers to complete pre-employment right to work checks…
How to Offset the Cost of Minimum Wage Increases in the UK The national living wage and minimum wages for those younger than 25 gone up from the 1st of…
What you need to know before changing your worker’s hoursChanging your worker’s shift hours can be challenging in terms of collaborating with the workers. To tackle the problem of non-beneficial…
How to make an effective and successful business?Effective business can explain where a quality task and process take place at a high level which leads to the overall increase in…
The manual to absence management: what it entails and how to control it What does the term absence management mean? Managing a business is a lot more than looking after…
Significance of time management at the workplaceWe all know this phrase that time is money. Time management is very necessary and important at any workplace. The workplace can be an…
Should there be a break for quality work?“Break'' is the most favorite word both for students and employees. Apart from this, in a general way we can say break is…
How to manage multiple business locations effectivelyThe beneficial business securing profits sounds fine, but it’s not a piece of cake. Management and controlling the business is very difficult and can…
How to increase employee satisfaction and productivityEvery business needs a productive approach to create healthy relations with the customers and employees. Creating high levels of satisfaction among the working people…
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