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Five Common Seasonal Hiring Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Modern Restaurant Management

Managers and owners must develop strategic hiring plans through the end of 2022 and into 2023 to protect staff from long hours and burnout. However, limited budgets and resources necessitate thoughtful hiring decisions in order to reduce wasted time and costs on advertising positions or training new hires. How to avoid.

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CHEFS – FAILURE IS NOT INEVITABLE

Culinary Cues

Following the economic devastation of 2008 – restaurants hunkered down for months and then came back refreshed and charged up. When they start to look at the relevance of products that they offer and diversify from the standard degree; and once they connect better with the industry that hires their graduates, they will stand tall and thrive.

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Holding Ourselves as Food Media Accountable

EATER

Last week I mentioned that inclusivity is a pillar of our coverage and hiring practices at Eater, that we’ve long strived to diversify the bylines, stories, experts, and visual artists featured in our work. I don’t recognize the Eater of 2008 in the Eater of 2020. Read the archives and subscribe now.

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David Chang’s Memoir Fails to Account for the Trauma He Caused Me

EATER

I am definitely not the intended audience for Eat a Peach : In 2008, I was hired as the corporate beverage director for Chang’s young empire; I held this job for seven months before I was fired without explanation. Conflict was fuel, and Momofuku was a gas-guzzling SUV,” Chang writes. I love teams.”

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This Restaurant’s Menu Shows It’s Not Just One Chef in Charge

EATER

Since it opened in 2008, Amanda Cohen’s Dirt Candy has been at the forefront of big shifts in how the restaurant industry can operate more responsibly and equitably, like plant-based charcuterie and the elimination of tipping. What has been the response from diners? It’s the exact same questions you’re asking: Why now?

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The Labor Disputes at Amy’s Kitchen, Explained

EATER

She had surgery in October 2008, and was put in a cast for five months, during which she stayed home, unable to hold her young children. If there was communication, or if they would’ve respected our decision [to unionize], they wouldn’t have hired third-party legal consultants to come in here and tell us the union is not good.”.

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My Drinks Company Folded. But That Doesn’t Make It a Failure.

EATER

In 2008 I began bartending at Please Don’t Tell. It wasn’t just me that was affected: In late 2019 I had hired a COO and a brand ambassador. But I’ve also come to realize that it’s easy for us to see our efforts in a binary success-or-failure model — and that framing is completely inadequate for our lives and the projects we pursue.