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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. Step 3: Scout for Personality, Not Just Skills During the hiring process, we sometimes over-emphasize experience while undervaluing the importance of personality. Discard the age-old adage, "Treat people as you want to be treated." We're curators of memorable experiences for others.

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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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The Top 10 Restaurant Podcasts to Tune Into

7 Shifts

The Restaurant Growth Podcast by 7shifts brings together restaurant leaders from all corners of our industry: full-service, quick-service, tech, and everyone who helps push hospitality forward. Revel in the advice and perspective of hospitality leaders anywhere and anytime! The Restaurant Coach. Hospitality Hangout.

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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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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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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. 8 Reasons Why Restaurant Workers Quit — And How To Prevent It.

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KITCHEN GROUPISM VS. TEAM

Culinary Cues

Anyone who has been hired as a new employee knows the feeling of being on the outside of groupism. The restaurant business is part of a wonderful industry of hospitality filled with great people doing extraordinary work as a team.