What Should Restaurants Be Thinking About Regarding Benefit Strategies?

2 Min Read By Trion Group

This edition of MRM's "Ask the Expert” features advice from Trion Group. Please send questions to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com.Circumstances change rapidly in the restaurant sector.  Demand is surging and finding employees has become almost impossible.  Simply caving into wage inflation usually turns into a permanent adjustment, so employers are looking for creative methods to attract employees.  The ideal solutions are relatively low in cost, but have a high perceptual value to this workforce.  

There is plenty of debate regarding the reasons for the labor shortage- unemployment benefits are too high, lack of childcare for parents and COVID-19 safety concerns. Regardless, the problem will be with us until the unemployment programs reset. Outside of students who are not eligible for unemployment, there are simply not enough workers to go around. The question is, how do you…