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Five Common Seasonal Hiring Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Modern Restaurant Management

Despite a slowed holiday hiring season, there is still a demand to hire restaurant employees to keep up with the inevitable influx of folks who eat out more frequently around the holidays—in fact, 17 percent of restaurant leaders are still looking to hire workers. How to avoid. For instance, hiring support for current staff (i.e.,

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The restaurant industry needs to step up for women. We asked four leaders how to do it.

7 Shifts

I have been serving plant based charcuterie since 2008.Broccoli Alison Edginton is the Manager of Training & New Can Openings at Smalls Sliders , an American burger QSR in Louisiana. Everyone wins when employees are comfortable bringing up issues before they get worse. “I Remember me?I Broccoli Hot Dogs!Beet Beet Pastrami!Carrot

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#MeToo, Still

EATER

I worked at the Friedman-owned Spotted Pig between 2006 and 2007, and at the Rusty Knot and the Breslin from 2008 to 2012.) In many circles, consumers have a much stronger sense of moral responsibility as to where they spend their money; in workplaces, habitual abusers can’t necessarily depend upon the silence of their employees.

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Feed the Rich, Save the Planet?

EATER

On the morning of February 7, 2020, office employees at the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture filed one by one into meetings with management. For 15 years , Stone Barns had been as much an education center as a farm, devoted to turning schoolkids into engaged “ food citizens ” and training young farmers.

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An Inside Look at Union Organizing in the Fast-Food Industry

EATER

A Chipotle employee eats inside a SF restaurant in 2020. A recent worker protest at a NYC Chipotle was part of a longer effort by the Service Employees International Union and others to unionize fast-food workers This story was originally published on Civil Eats. Striking McDonald’s employees at a 2016 protest in Los Angeles.

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The Best Kept Secret of Restaurant Success

Embrace the Suck

It might mean updating your menu, adding new services (catering, pick-up, or delivery), or how to train your team to become better at sales and time management. I tell you, It was the best thing next to getting a business coach back in 2008 that I have done to grow not only myself but my business as well. ????. I had doubts.

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Behind The Table, Gauri Devidayal’s Journey in the Indian Restaurant Industry

The Restaurant Times

In 2008, she returned to Mumbai without prior experience in the hospitality industry or aspirations of becoming an entrepreneur. Our team is trained to connect with people, anticipate their needs, and provide exceptional service. However, she fearlessly joined her husband in their restaurant venture.