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Server Job Description Sample for Restaurant Hiring

Touch Bistro

In this guide to writing a restaurant server job description, we’ll cover: A basic overview of the server role A restaurant server job description sample A few key tips for hiring a star lineup of servers. Restaurant servers (also known as waiters and waitresses) are the front of house staff in your restaurant. Job Description.

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Employee Engagement Best Practices for Restaurants

7 Shifts

The people you hire to run your restaurant can make or break the business. By using values-based hiring to find team members who are a good fit for your restaurant’s culture. Don’t fret if you’ve made hiring decisions based on other criteria; you can still keep your employees engaged, but it’s going to take some work.

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How to Create an Effective Restaurant Onboarding Process

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In order for new hires to perform well and stay happy in their roles, hiring managers need to pay more attention to the restaurant onboarding process. The purpose of the onboarding process is to teach new hires how to do their jobs successfully, and to catch them up on the company's culture and procedures.

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Questions in the Minds of Restaurant Job Applicants

Ken Burgin

If the managers or owners doing an interview raise and answer these job applicant questions, they will have a better rapport with applicants. And don’t forget, people are always looking for answers to their questions; if you don’t provide them, they may make them up! What is the kitchen’s work culture like?

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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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It’s Time to Focus on the Good

Modern Restaurant Management

Looking back on my last few articles, I have focused on facts, on technology and on the hard time that we are all having hiring staff. Very often the prize might be a bottle of wine, a gift certificate or cash. Imagine you have a restaurant that seats 120 and you have only one bartender and one server to handle the front-of-the-house.

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How NYC Restaurants Can Thrive Through the Winter

7 Shifts

The traditional division of labor between the front of the house and back of the house is no more, and restaurant employees have taken up responsibilities this year that they never imagined. "Winter is coming".said said every restaurateur in existence. But 2021 is the year to evolve your restaurant for whatever comes next.