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# How to Operate a Restaurant Kitchen With Fewer Employees

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## **Doing More With Fewer Employees**

The annual employee turnover rate in the restaurants and accommodations industry consistently holds at 70-80%.1 

It’s a full-blown labor crisis that requires restaurant and foodservice operators to get creative when asking more of their already stretched teams.

***Efficient Kitchen Operations: Doing More With Fewer Employees ***is part kitchen SOP manual and part operational reference guide for supporting and maximizing teamwork, offering practical advice on: 

- **Best practices** that help alleviate back of the house pressure including how to:
- **Pre-made dough balls** and other ready-to-use product solutions that:

**Complete the form to access your copy now.**

1Restaurant.org, [Hospitality industry turnover rate ticked higher in 2018](https://restaurant.org), March 9, 2019

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