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The Fourth Awakens
For Star Wars fans across the galaxy (at least those who use the Gregorian calendar), May the Fourth was a rallying point to commemorate the beloved franchise. At Fourth, we took it a step further, dedicating the day to showing solidarity with the restaurants and servers vital to our communities.
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Learn what’s new or trending in the industry, our latest analysis of new labour laws and compliance factors, hear how your peers are finding success with technology, find tips, tricks, and suggestions.
Being Proactive About Financial Wellbeing can Provide a Vital Lifeline
Months of furlough and job losses mean financial pressures are at an all-time high for workers in the hospitality industry.
Insights on Hospitality Recovery – Summary of the October Report
The figures from our October Insights on Hospitality Recovery report, a series in partnership with Wireless Social, reveal it was another incredibly challenging month for the hospitality sector, with further Government-imposed restrictions impacting trading and consumer confidence
Provide Additional Financial Support to Your Employees Through Challenging Times
Financial pressures are at an all-time high as we move into a second lockdown. We know supporting your employees’ financial and mental wellbeing is really important to you during these challenging times and hope that exploring Fourth X Wagestream will support you in these efforts, enabling you to give your team access to their furlough income on demand.
Protecting Hotel Profits in Extraordinary Times and Preparing for Future Success
The hotel industry was faced with disruption and increased costs before the COVID-19 global pandemic. Since, restrictions on leisure and travel and new health & safety operating protocols have resulted in increased costs, fluctuating demand and reduced occupancy, covers and revenues, making it extremely challenging to operate profitably.
Top Five Supply Chain Management Tips
Suppliers serving the hospitality sector have unsurprisingly been adversely impacted by the pandemic, with reports of revenues of less than 10% of 2019 levels during the first lockdown.
Top 3 Fundamentals to optimise labour in a moving market
Many of us will look back on 2020 as the year that fundamentally changed the hospitality industry. From monitoring the health of our employees, team members wearing PPE, to constantly changing rotas to accommodate consumer demand, the pandemic has certainly changed the way we operate and our traditional measures of success.
Wagestream is now Available to Fourth’s Payroll Customers at no Additional Cost
Fourth now offering the Wagestream Financial Wellbeing Platform as part of the Fourth Workforce Management solution, at no additional cost to customers using the payroll module.
Highlights from Insights on Hospitality Reopening Webinar in Partnership with Wireless Social
The data revealed that August began to show encouraging signs of recovery across the industry, largely driven by the Government’s Eat Out to Help Out (EOTHO) scheme, the warm weather, and the fact that people began to feel more comfortable and confident to start venturing out again.
Managing Increased Cleaning costs in a Covid-19 Operation
With safety and cleanliness at the forefront of everyone’s mind, and recent researching suggesting that enhanced cleaning standards will cost the hotel industry around £7 Billion, it is having a significant impact on everyone’s operational and labour costs.
Reassured customers make regular customers
We all know legislation is tightening around allergen labelling and calorie counts, but this isn’t the only reason hospitality businesses should seize the opportunity to get on top of this vital data. Increasingly, customers want to know what’s in the food they eat in restaurants and take away.
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