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

Embrace the Suck

Step 3: Scout for Personality, Not Just Skills During the hiring process, we sometimes over-emphasize experience while undervaluing the importance of personality. While experience is certainly crucial for specific roles, personality should carry substantial weight in our hiring decisions.

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THAT ELUSIVE THING CALLED PERFECTION

Culinary Cues

Vince Lombardi, considered by many to be the greatest football coach of all time said: “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.” They hire and train the most dedicated professionals to execute the plan, and they are always focused on the details. Lots of questions without answers.

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

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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. When Kaldi's Coffee needed a new graphic designer , they looked within.

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CLOSING THE RINGS OF THE TOTAL RESTAURANT EXPERIENCE

Culinary Cues

How much effort is placed on the design of plated foods, the contrast and complement of colors, shapes, and assembly? Is your ventilation system designed to push positive kitchen odors to the dining room or outside the entrance? Yet, we often design restaurants with little or no consideration for acoustics.

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Three Tips for Managing a Healthy Restaurant Workforce

Modern Restaurant Management

There are several reasons why new employees may be incurring more injuries: Poor hiring choices. The hiring process may be rushed, and the wrong person could be chosen for the job. Hasty hiring choices can lead to faster turnover, operational problems, and potentially more on-the-job injuries. Inadequate training.

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Is the World Barista Championship too exclusive & expensive for competitors?

Perfect Daily Grind

There are a number of competitions in specialty coffee designed to test the skills and knowledge of industry professionals. Coaching and training Wilford Lamastus Jr. If a competitor wants to perform well at the WBC, one of the biggest costs is to hire a coach – preferably a ‘famous’ one,” he says. lb at auction.

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Where Are You Stuck? The 4 Stages of Restaurant Growth

Embrace the Suck

Culture: Now the culture is started to be more thought out and is more designed with a focus on the guest experience. They do start to train people better than the bad restaurants, yet their training system is still outdated and is usually only done when someone is hired. That's where having a clear plan and path pays off.