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Inspiring Hourly Workers

Modern Restaurant Management

Scott Greenberg addresses that challenge in his new book, Stop the Shift Show: Turn Your Struggling Hourly Workers Into a Top-Performing Team. Greenberg is an internationally recognized speaker, author and coach with franchise clients that include McDonalds, Great Clips, GNC, RE/MAX, Smoothie King, Global Franchise Group and many more.

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The Top 10 Things Learned from Working with 1000+ Restaurants

Embrace the Suck

I keep detailed coaching notes from every client I have had over the past 11 years as The Restaurant Coach™ Some of those stories make it into my books, speaking gigs, podcasts, or just as a solid warning to new clients about what not to do! Bad hiring is a disease. I think Uber is hiring. Reading books.

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8 Reasons Why Restaurant Workers Quit (And How to Retain Them)

7 Shifts

According to Jim Taylor, a restaurant coach at BenchmarkSixty , restaurants can afford to pay employees more by looking for efficiencies in their productivity. Showcase your core values in your employee handbook, in new-hire training, on your company careers page. Some people from the café; applied, and we hired one of them.

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How Employee Engagement and Career Development Can Help You Boost Retention

7 Shifts

Having strong employee retention means less time and money spent on hiring and training, less knowledge loss, increased productivity, and better customer service. Feedback is sent to your Manager Log Book, allowing you to monitor trends and search for past feedback. This all translates to more satisfied customers and better business.

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The 19 Deadly Mistakes Restaurants Make

Embrace the Suck

Read books and blogs. Hire a business coach (okay that was a little self-promotion…LOL). Mistake #6: They have an outdated hiring system (or worse) they panic hire. They have no system for hiring! We tend to hire for skill and forget the personality. You all hire from the same labor pool.

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Working IN Your Restaurant Doesn’t Work

Embrace the Suck

Author’s Note: This is an excerpt from my new book title Your Restaurant Culture Sucks! Now, before you say, “ But Coach, you are an anomaly and my situation is different.” Now, you might say, “But Coach, I do trust my team!” Coming out in late February 2021. ” Hold that thought for a second.

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How to Put Employees First, From 4 Restaurateurs

7 Shifts

Some of us know that we should - but in between dealing with maintenance issues and hiring new employees, it can be hard enough to take care of yourself, let alone your staff. Because I don't wanna hire the wrong people. And what I've found is that once I have hired those people, I started to see the hourly team changed.”

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