So you gather the staff together, maybe show a video, tell them what to do, and then demonstrate the wrong and right way to use a table tent. For instance, any discussion of the importance of using table tents to sell more appetizers had better be preceded with a lively education on how the price of an entree barely covers the operation's fixed daily operating costs. We must sell an entree to generate gross sales. We must sell an appetizer or dessert to generate gross profit. Absolutely, you can.
Different people learn differently.
Some prefer visuals, others prefer hearing, still others prefer learning kinesthetically by touching and handling. The ideal education involves a combination of all three. Different strokes for different folks. Eye appeal precedes mind appeal. Make sure your training manuals look more like USA Today than The Wall Street Journal in terms of layout, text and graphics.