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The Perfect Recruiting Plan

Embrace the Suck

If you’re like the majority of restaurants and bars in your market, you’ve been struggling to find staff. 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. Are they breathing?

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The Winning Strategy: Attracting and Retaining Top Talent for Your Restaurant – A Four-Step Approach

Embrace the Suck

But these fresh recruits often stick around only briefly before setting off, triggering a repeating cycle of worry. Step 2: Proactive Recruitment Unearthing top-tier talent demands active recruitment. Instead, we should be on the offense, taking our recruitment strategy to the talent pool. It's astounding! Are they alive?

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How to Create a Restaurant Staff Training Manual

7 Shifts

As you ramp up hiring again, there’ll be a huge influx of applications, so it’s essential you get your post-COVID recruitment right. The more staff you have to replace, the more money you have to spend on recruitment, and the more time you have to spend interviewing and training. Write your training guide as you’d coach them in person.)

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How a Performance Improvement Plan Could Save You $80K

Bar and Restaurant Coach

Most bar and restaurant operations don’t have Human Resource departments—and some would say that’s a good thing. On occasion, we’re fortunate enough to have people who stay with us for decades, but it’s more common for bars and restaurants to see a high turnover rate. 1 bar manager. 1 bar back. 1 bar manager.

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EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP WHEN IT SEEMS TO BE IN SHORT SUPPLY

Culinary Cues

WHAT WE SAY: – Effective leaders coach their words and base them on what they have learned – backed up with facts and input from those “experts” that they have effectively listened to. That world-famous bar-b-que joint that has been around for generations is in jeopardy. WORDS ARE POWERFUL – WORDS MATTER.

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The 11 Habits of Outstanding Restaurants

Embrace the Suck

Many of my clients when they first start my coaching program do a big sales number. You’re a pizza shop, a tapas bar, a gastropub. I should recruit more talent. I must recruit more talent. Over the last 12 years of being The Restaurant Coach™?, Sales is a vanity metric. It makes your ego feel good.

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The restaurant industry needs to step up for women. We asked four leaders how to do it.

7 Shifts

Kelly McCutcheon, VP of People at Hopdoddy Burger Bar , knows what it's like to be underestimated. Hopdoddy Burger Bar defined its values by identifying common traits of star team members. Is there something in the hiring or recruiting process that leaves women out? Every recruit gets a copy of the Hopdoddy “Journey”.