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Five Common Seasonal Hiring Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Modern Restaurant Management

Below, we review five common mistakes recruiters make when hiring seasonal workers and how to prevent them in order to reach your yearly goals. By developing a short-term worker-specific hiring plan, you give yourself the opportunity to recruit and hire based on your specific needs at that moment. How to avoid.

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Holding Ourselves as Food Media Accountable

EATER

I don’t recognize the Eater of 2008 in the Eater of 2020. Interrogating why well-meaning recruiting policies aren’t getting us the right results. We didn’t pay interns for years, which only allowed a certain class of individual through the door. But I know we still have an incredible amount of work to do.

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New Lawsuit Argues Tipped Minimum Wage Violates Workers’ Civil Rights

EATER

Lynn found that tipping has the “adverse impact of paying Black servers less than white servers,” which led him to suggest in 2008 that the practice violates the Civil Rights Act. Darden hasn’t been entirely unresponsive to worker pressure — at least, in its public messaging and recruitment strategies.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Chicken Sale-d Chick and The Dolly Llama and This Is It! to Franchise

Modern Restaurant Management

Chicken Salad Chick was founded in 2008 by Stacy and Kevin Brown when they opened the first restaurant in Auburn, Ala. Todd is assuming responsibility for leading Eggs Up Grill growth by recruiting new qualified franchise partners into the rapidly expanding brand’s system. ” German Donor Kebab Growth.

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Federal Grants Programs for Shared Use Commercial Kitchens Supporting Local Food Systems

The Food Corridor

In the organizations final performance report for the grant program , the showed significant progress in expanding the number of market events, improving consumer attendance per market event, and recruiting additional vendors, bolstering entrepreneurial activity among local farmers and cottage foods producers. .

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Better Spices, Better Lives

EATER

We have to recruit new farmers, and some days we have training for farmers so they know what to do differently for the coming year. The other reason I chose saffron is that my family chose to cultivate it starting in 2008. Eater: What does a typical day look like for you? What is your business model right now?

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The Great LA Dumpling Drama

EATER

Since 2013, the sole San Fernando Valley outpost of Din Tai Fung has been located within the Americana at Brand, a glitzy outdoor mall that opened in 2008 and is owned and operated by Caruso, a real estate company named after its founder, CEO, and lone shareholder, Rick Caruso. But really, after Wetzel’s, that’s about it.