It is important to keep on top of all legal matters in the restaurant business. Failure to have the correct  permits or licences can result in heavy penalties, including fines and restaurant closure. The key to any successful business is simple: profits. Restaurant businesses need to make money to survive, and in order to make money, restaurant owners, operators and managers need to know basic restaurant accounting systems to control cash flow, reduce losses and maximize their profits. Keeping track of your finances will put you in a good place to monitor your cash flow and make the most of your business in the long run. In the restaurant business there is always room to improve. Listening to both customer and employee feedback is a great way to figure out what you're doing right and what you could do better.  Make sure your waiters are asking customers whether they enjoyed their meal – this isn’t just good for feedback, it’s good customer service. Sites like tripadvisor.com are very useful when it comes to monitoring customer opinion. Don't be afraid of negative reviews, see what you can learn from them and move on. Listening to employee feedback can help to create a better workplace for everybody. Happy employees lead to higher productivity, lower turnover of staff and satisfied customers!
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One-sentence summary -- Keep up to date on legal matters. Mind the books. Listen to employee and customer feedback.


The case gives a noun its distinct "role," essentially dictating to the reader/listener how that noun functions within the sentence. The case of a given noun does not change the meaning of that word. It simply changes the way that word acts or conveys meaning in the sentence. Declensions are the set of endings that are tacked on to nouns, pronouns, and adjectives in Latin to form a given case, which is often called the "case form" of a word. There are six regular cases used in the Latin language: five for nouns, and one that is used for some pronouns and adjectives.  Nominative is called the "subject case," meaning it refers to the person or object that comes before the verb.  Genitive shows one person's possession of an object. Dative is the case used for an indirect object. Accusative designates the direct object, usually after an action verb that has a receiver but occasionally used after a preposition. Ablative is used as an adverb, or in conjunction with prepositions and verbs. The special declension for pronouns and adjectives end in "-ius" in the genitive singular and usually end in "-î" in the dative singular. Mood is one of the qualifiers that determine the function of a verb. The mood of a verb may be thought of as that verb's "conditions of reality" for a given verb's action. The two most common moods that are used in Latin are indicative and subjunctive, though imperative is sometimes also used.  Indicative moods mean that the verb's action actually happened, is happening, or will happen. For example, in the sentence "I went to the store," the verb "went" describes an action that has actually taken place. Subjunctive moods mean that the verb's action takes some departure from reality, so to speak. An example of a subjunctive mood is a sentence in which you ask someone to imagine a hypothetical occurrence or set of circumstances. Those circumstances do not presently exist in reality, nor will they necessarily exist in the future, but they deal with potential or theoretical events. Imperative moods can be thought of as either commands, requests/wishes/prayers, or negative imperatives (a command or request to stop or avoid some given activity). Deponent verbs are one of the most difficult concepts to learn in Latin because there is no English language equivalent. Essentially a deponent verb is a verb that has a passive form with an active meaning. The closest example in English might be a scenario in which the sentence "The car was driven by Julian" would mean "Julian drove the car," despite the way it is constructed on paper or in speech. Deponent forms of verbs are very confusing to Latin students, but once you've memorized the tables of regular verbs you should develop an understanding of the passive forms in each conjugation. With practice and a firm understanding of passive verb conjugations, you will come to understand how a deponent verb form functions.
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One-sentence summary -- Study cases and declensions. Learn verb mood. Understand deponent verbs.


Macros are a built in function that allow you to automate complex and repetitive tasks. Double-click (or click if you're on a Mac) the Excel app icon, which resembles a white "X" on a green background, then click Blank Workbook on the templates page.  On a Mac, you may have to click File and then click New Blank Workbook in the resulting drop-down menu. If you already have an Excel report that you want to automate, you'll instead double-click the report's file to open it in Excel. If you haven't added the column labels and numbers for which you want to automate results, do so before proceeding. By default, the Developer tab doesn't show up at the top of the Excel window. You can enable it by doing the following depending on your operating system:   Windows — Click File, click Options, click Customize Ribbon on the left side of the window, check the "Developer" box in the lower-right side of the window (you may first have to scroll down), and click OK.   Mac — Click Excel, click Preferences..., click Ribbon & Toolbar, check the "Developer" box in the "Main Tabs" list, and click Save. This tab should now be at the top of the Excel window. Doing so brings up a toolbar at the top of the Excel window. It's in the toolbar. A pop-up window will appear. In the "Macro name" text box, type in the name for your macro. This will help you identify the macro later. For example, if you're creating a macro that will make a chart out of your available data, you might name it "Chart1" or similar. Press the ⇧ Shift key along with another key (e.g., the T key) to create the keyboard shortcut. This is what you'll use to run your macro later. On a Mac, the shortcut key combination will end up being ⌥ Option+⌘ Command and your key (e.g., ⌥ Option+⌘ Command+T). Click the "Store macro in" drop-down box, then click This Workbook to ensure that the macro will be available for anyone who opens the workbook. You'll have to save the Excel file in a special format for the macro to be saved. It's at the bottom of the window. Doing so will save your macro settings and place you in record mode. Any steps you take from now until you stop the recording will be recorded. Excel will track every click, keystroke, and formatting option you enter and add them to the macro's list.  For example, to select data and create a chart out of it, you would highlight your data, click Insert at the top of the Excel window, click a chart type, click the chart format that you want to use, and edit the chart as needed. If you wanted to use the macro to add values from cells A1 through A12, you would click an empty cell, type in =SUM(A1:A12), and press ↵ Enter. It's in the Developer tab's toolbar. This will stop your recording and save any steps you took during the recording as an individual macro. Click File, click Save As, and change the file format to xlsm instead of xls. You can then enter a file name, select a file location, and click Save. If you don't do this, the macro won't be saved as part of the spreadsheet, meaning that other people on different computers won't be able to use your macro if you send the workbook to them. Press the key combination which you created as part of the macro to do so. You should see your spreadsheet automate according to your macro's steps. You can also run a macro by clicking Macros in the Developer tab, selecting your macro's name, and clicking Run.
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If the data you need to report on is already stored, updated, and maintained in Excel, you can automate reporting workflows using Macros. Open Excel. Enter your spreadsheet's data if necessary. Enable the Developer tab. Click Developer. Click Record Macro. Enter a name for the macro. Create a shortcut key combination for the macro. Store the macro in the current Excel document. Click OK. Perform the steps that you want to automate. Click Stop Recording. Save your Excel sheet as a macro-enabled file. Run your macro.