Embrace the Suck
MAY 24, 2023
Relying on serendipity for star performers to discover us is a wasted opportunity. Step 3: Scout for Personality, Not Just Skills During the hiring process, we sometimes over-emphasize experience while undervaluing the importance of personality. Instead, we should be on the offense, taking our recruitment strategy to the talent pool.
Culinary Cues
MAY 8, 2023
The chef is responsible for hiring, training, coaching, evaluating, and scheduling employees keeping in mind their skill level, personal issues and responsibilities, demands of specific positions in the kitchen (not everyone fits in every role), and an ever-changing influx of customers with their own demands.
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Embrace the Suck
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
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. I think Uber is hiring. Reading books.
Culinary Cues
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
THE LAW: It is not enough to hire competent people. The chef must be the coach who recognizes strengths and weaknesses and builds consensus around common goals so that the machine works properly. [] A Teacher and a Trainer. THE LAW: Look to the chef to see how the kitchen will act.
7 Shifts
AUGUST 19, 2020
As you ramp up hiring again, there’ll be a huge influx of applications, so it’s essential you get your post-COVID recruitment right. Pandemic or otherwise, staff turnover eats into your profitability and wastes a considerable amount of managers’ time. Write your training guide as you’d coach them in person.)
EATER
JUNE 9, 2023
As the 1600s turned into the 1700s, the British wealthy, determined not to be left behind, built hothouses of their own, and even hired Dutch gardeners in an attempt to grow the king of fruit on English soil. What a waste,” Beauman explained. Why would you eat that? It would be a bit like eating your Gucci handbag.
The Restaurant Coach University
JANUARY 29, 2017
You’ve made some bad hiring choices (usually when desperate to fill positions, which is known as “panic hiring”). When the call for restaurant coaching comes in, people are asked what the issues might be. If coaching could just fix them then, they would have the restaurant they wanted. Your Staff.
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