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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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A CHEF WHO GETS THE MESSAGE RIGHT

Culinary Cues

According to Big Picture Learning – “A 2014 survey by About.com found that the top three reasons for leaving an organization were communication related: a lack of direction from management, overall poor communication, and poorly communication constant change.” It is important that our sponsors are happy. It’s a win, win.”.

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Turning the Tide: The Inspiring Leadership of Geoff Alexander

The Restaurant Times

Hiring and Nurturing Talent Alexander shares tips on how to hire and nurture the right talent for your restaurant. Conclusion Alexander’s tenacity and vision have earned him industry-wide recognition as one of the Top 25 Executives in the Fast Casual Industry for six consecutive years (2014—2021).

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How Kaldi’s Coffee uses 7shifts to schedule and connect with 100+ team members

7 Shifts

Kaldi's has been with 7shifts since our founding year in 2014, one of our earliest adopters of the restaurant scheduling tools. Some people from the café; applied and we hired one of them. 7shifts automatically generates a recap of each post to be sent to the leadership team and regional managers like Methvin. “We

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Blue Hill at Stone Barns Tells a Beautiful Story. Former Employees Say It’s Too Good to Be True.

EATER

By May 2014, when a camera crew from Chef’s Table arrived to shoot an episode dedicated to Barber , Schaible’s enthusiasm was gone. That spring, he alleges, he was sexually assaulted by a member of the kitchen management, and in the aftermath, was devastated by how the restaurant’s leadership, including Barber, handled his allegation.

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There Is No ‘After’ the Reckoning for Restaurants

EATER

Joey Pham, who is now a baker and spiritual coach at their own business Flavor Supreme , started working at Fat Rice in 2014 as a line cook and says they were eventually driven away by Conlon’s bullying. “I Maybe this time, things would change. But now is far too soon for that.”.

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How Much NBA Legend Dwyane Wade Thinks You Should Spend on a Nice Bottle of Wine

EATER

In 2014, the star teamed up with legendary Napa winemaker Pahlmeyer for his own label, called Wade Cellars , which has earned accolades from industry publications like Wine Enthusiast for its wine line-up, which includes cabernet sauvignon, chenin blanc, and rosé.

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