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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. To assemble a high-performance team, you need to perpetually be recruiting, marketing, training, and learning.

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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. Well-trained and engaged staff contribute to better customer satisfaction. Hire It’s hard to find good staff.

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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. The Solution: Create a training program.

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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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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. PICTURE: The well led kitchen team of the Balsams Resort in its heyday.

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Three Tips for Managing a Healthy Restaurant Workforce

Modern Restaurant Management

Workers’ compensation data shows an uptick in the number of new employees injured on the job, especially in the hospitality and food service industries. There are several reasons why new employees may be incurring more injuries: Poor hiring choices. Inadequate training. New Employees Have More On-the-Job Injuries.

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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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