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The Perfect Recruiting Plan

Embrace the Suck

With that mission in mind, below you’ll find the four-step recruiting plan you need to build a high-performance team and succeed in 2020. Step 2: Be Actively Recruiting. What’s the biggest difference between job ads and recruiting? I f your main recruiting strategy is hope, you’re totally screwed.

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How Restaurant Owners Can Prepare for the COVID-19 Cold Weather Lull

Modern Restaurant Management

That said, restaurants didn’t have COVID-19 written into their budget at the beginning of 2020. In fact, the industry had a turnover rate of 75 percent in 2019 and this trend was aggravated in 2020 by the pandemic. If competitors are easier to find and communicate with, your business could lose customers quickly.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-February 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

2020 State of the Restaurant Industry. The National Restaurant Association released its 2020 State of the Restaurant Industry Report which examines key factors impacting the restaurant industry including the current state of the economy, operations, workforce, and food and menu trends across segments from quickservice to fine dining.

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How To Create a Fair Holiday Work Schedule For Restaurants

7 Shifts

Even in the pandemic year of 2020, before vaccines, we saw bumps in both sales and shifts scheduled in and around the tent pole holidays. In a pinch, you can also rely on a team communication tool to allow employees with last-minute time-off requests to trade or offer up their shifts to a coworker to avoid an understaffed holiday event.

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Pandemic Effects on Funding, Growth and People – Plus Predictions for 2024

Modern Restaurant Management

percent below the February 2020 employment peak. While fair pay continues to be the top reason employees leave, the other big factors are a lack of opportunity for growth and development, the quality of management and communication, reasonable benefits like PTO and flexible schedules, and not feeling they are recognized for their hard work.

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Absence and Wellbeing: Challenges and Opportunities for the Restaurant Sector

Modern Restaurant Management

In addition to cost considerations, efforts to structure these types of benefits are complicated by compliance requirements and the challenge of communicating and promoting a positive employee experience. A 2020 study in the Harvard Business Review estimated that depression costs U.S.

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Build more resilient teams with DEI

Open for Business

Thanks in part to the racial reckoning of 2020 and the subsequent labor shortage, a lot of restaurants have realized the importance of DEI initiatives in creating a positive workplace culture and attracting and retaining top talent. Disabilities can include learning disabilities as well as physical disabilities.