Restaurant Management 101

To the untrained eye, the job of Restaurantfixed. All restaurants and their chain of command
Manager seems pretty easy. They hang out inare different, but it's safe to assume that
cool restaurants all day, tasting great food, andeverything that the manager has a hand in
shooting the breeze with customers. For theeverything that goes on within the four walls of
managers that are really good at their job, itthe restaurant.
really is this easy. A great manager shouldn't haveTraining is the key element that can take a
much to do every day because he has spent somanager from stressing everyday if things are
much time sharing his knowledge and experiencebeing properly done to the guy that hangs out
with the rest of his staff, they take care ofwith customers. A great manager will know the
everything for him. For those that aren't quite atrestaurant industry inside and out and be versed
that level there are more things that need to bein the methods of training to teach all of his/her
done.experience to the entire staff. Arming the staff
Ultimately, everything in the restaurant is thewith knowledge alleviates much of the pressure
managers responsibility. Everything from scheduleson the manager to do everything in the
to clean bathrooms are on the managersrestaurant. Ideally, the only times the staff will
shoulders. If a person calls in sick, it's theneed the manager are for more training and
managers job to find a replacement. If the airadvice. They will be properly trained to handle
conditioning stopped working or the roof is leakingeverything that the customers can throw at
the manager has to see that they are properlythem.