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

Embrace the Suck

This means internalizing the essence of hospitality. Take the initiative, communicate, and show genuine interest in their capabilities. Step 3: Scout for Personality, Not Just Skills During the hiring process, we sometimes over-emphasize experience while undervaluing the importance of personality.

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

7 Shifts

As of 2019, hospitality had a national average turnover rate of 75% , and that's only grown since the pandemic. According to Jim Taylor, a restaurant coach at BenchmarkSixty , restaurants can afford to pay employees more by looking for efficiencies in their productivity. Communication is lacking. Lack of recognition.

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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. In the hospitality world, we give and give to others.

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Work Smart, Play Smart

Modern Restaurant Management

It’s getting harder and harder to adapt and survive, especially in the ever-changing hospitality industry, but the best companies forge ahead. La Vida Hospitality believes in working as smart as you play, and encourages employees to Enjoy The Ride, a tried-and-true mantra for our approach to the work-life balance.

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The Perfect Recruiting Plan

Embrace the Suck

The new hires stay for a few weeks but end up leaving, and the cycle of anxiety begins again. This goes back to embracing what “hospitality” really means: you’re the host to others’ experiences. We love to throw around the word “hospitality” in reference to our guests in this industry.

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How to Reduce your Restaurant Tech Stack

7 Shifts

7shifts set out to solve this industry challenge by building a true all-in-one app that serves the entire restaurant employee lifecycle from hiring, training, and scheduling to paying and retaining. Hire It’s hard to find good staff. 7shifts' Hiring tools help to reduce the average expense of hiring a new employee.

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This Restaurant Tool Helped 650K, Restaurant Employees' Lives Easier

7 Shifts

Trusted by restaurants internationally, 7shifts is backed by industry giants like Danny Meyer and his investment firm Enlightened Hospitality Investments. Restaurants are facing an overdue paradigm shift when it comes to staff hiring, engagement, and retention - with countless restaurants struggling to stay fully-staffed.