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How to Create a Restaurant Staff Training Manual

7 Shifts

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. The more staff you have to replace, the more money you have to spend on recruitment, and the more time you have to spend interviewing and training. Write your training guide as you’d coach them in person.)

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Complicated Hiring Practices Drive Candidates Away.  Make Them Simple

Modern Restaurant Management

According to the National Restaurant Association, 70 percent of operators report not having enough employees to meet customer demand, and three out of four say they will commit more resources to employee recruitment and retention. Gen Z, the target demographic for the restaurant industry, prefers to communicate via text.

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Optimizing Your Restaurant Staffing and Onboarding for a Successful Recovery

Restaurant365

Recruiting better candidates to re-engage your workforce. Since recruiting your staff can be such an extensive undertaking, here are a few factors for you to consider when designing an effective recruiting and onboarding process to rehire and appropriately schedule your restaurant’s workforce.

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The Downfall of a Restaurant: A Leadership Deficit

Embrace the Suck

It begins with a pinch of complacency, a dash of poor decision-making, and a generous serving of ineffective communication. The recruitment and effective training of suitable staff is critical. Restaurant Excellence Guideline #9: Maintain a well-documented policy with explicit consequences for every infringement.

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Tips for High Volume Hiring

ExactHire - Restaurants

Successful high-volume recruitments rely heavily on efficient application screening. This means having a screening plan in place before recruiting begins. Misalignment is the source of all problems in recruitment and onboarding exercises. Communicate your culture. Where possible, look to automate common, repetitive tasks.

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How to Streamline Human Resources and Payroll in the Restaurant Industry

Restaurant365

Tailor your hiring and recruiting practices. The first step in reducing high turnover is to examine your hiring and recruiting practices. How are you communicating with your potential new hires? There are many moving parts to hiring and recruiting. Do they understand the expectations for the role? Payroll Best Practices.

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Hiring Restaurant Employees: The CFO’s Role in Developing a Strategy

Restaurant365

Turnover costs include the recruitment process, such as placing ads for job listings, as well as the hiring process, like a manager’s time to review applications, coordinate with candidates, and conduct interviews. For existing employees, they need to see it in practice and through your company communications and mentorship.

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