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Getting employees on board with operational changes

 By Lynne Eddy on Jan. 03, 2017

It can be tricky to find the balance between listening to your team’s point of view and avoiding giving your power away. You may accept many or few recommendations.

Operations

DC poised to enforce paid leave

 By Alaina Lancaster on Dec. 21, 2016

Legislation passed on Tuesday would require the district's private sector foodservice operators to provide workers with family and medical time off.

FSD Culinary Council

What's on operators' wish lists?

By FSD Staff on Dec. 13, 2016

Question:As the holiday season approaches, what’s on your wish list for your operation?Answers from FSD's Culinary CouncilMy list is long, but here are two:To have more Menus of Change principles in e...

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How to respond to negative online feedback

By Jonathan Deutsch, Ph.D. on Dec. 13, 2016

The short answer is yes, but with a strategy. Use review sites to listen to your customers, because they are talking. Then develop a strategy with your team.

Steal This Idea

Push employees to gain hospitality insights

Dec. 13, 2016

Every week we ask our employees to gather examples of hospitality from outside our industry. We ask them, “How does that make you feel? What are you thinking about?

Operations

Tales from beyond FSD’s top 100 issue

By Dana Moran on Dec. 13, 2016

The Top 100 operators have a lot to share. Here are some of Managing Editor Dana Moran's favorite anecdotes that didn’t make it into the final story.

Operations

Pizza ovens are bringing in the dough

By Alaina Lancaster on Dec. 13, 2016

Wood-fired, coal-fired, brick—specialty pizza ovens are no small investment, but operators are finding that the equipment gives rise to a new slice of customers.

Operations

Rethinking food safety with new approaches

By Dana Moran and Lisa Arnett on Dec. 13, 2016

In recent months, operators have had to stave off more fears than just E. coli. Mumps, flu and hand-foot-and-mouth disease have reared their germy heads in foodservice.

People

How to foster relationships between employee shifts

By Jim Korner on Dec. 13, 2016

Your two shifts disagreeing is really a teamwork problem. Of course each shift has their immediate goals, but your operation is much larger than that.

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Colleen Wright-Riva: Long-term vision

By Amy McKeever on Dec. 13, 2016

Change has been on Colleen Wright-Riva’s mind since she arrived at University of Maryland from Cornell, a private institution that wins top marks for its dining.

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