According to Forbes Magazine, 19% of restaurants that open fail in their first year, mostly because they are under-funded and ill-prepared to weather challenges that may arise. However, once restaurant owners reach their one year anniversary, new-restaurant jitters subside and it’s time to focus on streamlining operations.  Here are three restaurant management tips to help your operation run more smoothly.

Just about any way you look at it, restaurant labor management is directly tied to profitability. Wages and other expenses related to labor are a big cut of a restaurant budget, typically 30% to 35% according to Chron, with labor costs for hourly employees totaling about 20% to 25%.