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Hey Team! Super Bowl Sunday is not the day to discover your bar staff doesn't know the difference between your ghost pepper wings and your honey garl…
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Hey Team! Super Bowl Sunday is not the day to discover your bar staff doesn't know the difference between your ghost pepper wings and your honey garl…

Hey Team! A soft opening is not a practice run. That's the thing most operators get wrong before they've learned it the hard way. You're putting real…

Hey Team! Saturday night, 7:45pm. Table 12 asks your server what's in tonight's pasta special. Your server says "it's like... a mushroom thing? With …

Hey Team! Saturday night at Black Barrel, 4:45pm. Fifteen minutes before the floor opens. My GM at the time is running a pre-shift meeting that's ble…

Hey Team! Saturday night. 5:45pm. Your dining room fills up in fifteen minutes and you've just spent twelve minutes at pre-shift telling the crew abo…

Hey Team! I've rolled out well over a hundred menu updates in thirty years. Seasonal changes, full overhauls, new chef coming in and blowing up the w…

Let me paint a picture every restaurant manager knows. It's 4:45 PM. Service starts at 5:00. You've got six servers, two bartenders, and a busser sta…