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What Marijuana Laws Mean for Your Restaurant Business 

Modern Restaurant Management

Additionally, in Denver, where marijuana has been legal for recreational use since 2012, restaurant executives are saying their workforce is being lured away to higher-paying, lower-demand jobs in the cannabis industry. Marijuana use could affect not only an employee’s quality of work, but also whether they show up. New Safety Issues.

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Effectively Targeting and Marketing to Gen Z

Modern Restaurant Management

Born between 1995-2012, they range from seven to 24 years of age. It’s more cost-effective for many companies than hiring, training, and deploying a fully-staffed internal marketing and digital department. A strong digital presence is a must to engage with these powerful young consumers to keep them coming back for more.

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Tips on Hiring and Retaining Young Employees

Goliath Consulting

Gen-Z are those born from the years 1997-2012. The post Tips on Hiring and Retaining Young Employees appeared first on. In recent studies, Gen-Z is an entirely different generation from most employers (Millennials). Gen-Z often requires different approaches.

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7 Restaurant Management Book Recommendations

7 Shifts

Topics: Hospitality; hiring and training staff; building workplace culture. ?? To achieve Enlightened Hospitality you need to hire “51 percenters with 5 core emotional skills.” While achieving Enlightened Hospitality may seem redundant while you only serve takeout, it should be a core value of your restaurant and hiring process.

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Taco Bell’s New Giant Cheez-It Is the Stuff of Fast Food Fever Dreams 

EATER

Think all the way back to 2012, and consider, for a moment, Taco Bell’s Doritos Locos taco. Within a year of its release in 2012, the chain had already sold more than 400 million Doritos Locos tacos and was forced to hire thousands of new workers to keep up with the demand.

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Who’s Paying for the Great Delivery Wars?

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Seamless was founded in 1999, Grubhub in 2004, Postmates in 2011, and DoorDash in 2012. Now, small restaurants no longer need to hire delivery personnel themselves, with many instead choosing to strike a deal with one of the apps, which in turn would connect the restaurant with an independent contractor to pick up and deliver the food.

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McDonald’s Considers Radical Concepts Like Emergency Childcare to Entice Workers

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Business Insider also reports that McDonald’s could offer workers a number of other benefits, including eldercare, wage and benefits workshops, and tuition assistance, in an effort to stimulate hiring.

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