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Restaurant Workforce Research: Reflecting on 2024 and Optimizing for 2025

Modern Restaurant Management

After millions left the industry in 2020, restaurants responded by increasing wages and leaning into incentives to attract employees back. Recruiting and Retention Remain a Struggle In the research report, 65 percent of respondents described the current labor market as “tight” or “very tight.”

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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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Restaurant Workers Can’t Be Replaced by Technology — But They Can Be Recruited

7 Shifts

Not surprising, as it has been reported on consistently, recruiting employees is the top concern for restaurants in fall of 2021, after Coronavirus shook up our economies and our definitions of success. Recruiting employees was the top concern in 2019 , before the COVID-19 pandemic rocked the restaurant world. Surprising?

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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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As Police Use ‘Foodie’ to Recruit, What Does the Word Mean?

EATER

When I first saw a police recruitment poster that called to “Foodies, Gamers, Techies, Influencers” like the four horsemen of some Twitter apocalypse, I assumed it was a joke. police department, using subway advertisements to recruit New Yorkers to move south. A post shared by DC Police Recruiting Division (@joindcpolice).

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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. Seasonal business owners should be consistently looking for ways to cut costs during slower times.

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2022 Trends: Meeting Challenges and Industry Evolution

Modern Restaurant Management

The spike of take out and delivery orders that began with covid makes it all too easy to forget that prior to March 2020, guests had already begun moving that direction. At the same time, competition for labor has risen, making it more difficult than ever to recruit, train and retain employees.

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