Communication, Employee Relations and Workshop

Planning Year-Round Training to Improve Restaurant Operations

The Rail

JANUARY 3, 2025

Regular staff training ensures your employees are equipped to handle a fast-paced restaurant environment and the challenges that come with it, deliver exceptional service, and adapt to evolving industry trends to stay competitive. Key Training Areas The first question that probably pops into your mind is, What should I train my employees on?

Training

Training Operations Kitchen Safety Seasonal Menu

How Reflective Listening Can Motivate Teams and Inspire Trust

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 7, 2025

All joking aside, I’ve spent the last few months teaching Leading with Empathy workshops for restaurant leaders (including my husband). Stop Solving, Start Listening While building out my workshop, I asked a friend to sit and give me feedback. There was an employee who kept coming to work with a stained apron.

Workshop

Workshop Uniforms Hospitality Take-out

How Employers Can Support Employee Mental Health

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In today's workplace, the significance of addressing employee mental health has become increasingly crucial. The well-being of employees directly impacts their productivity, engagement, and overall satisfaction. Offering Mental Health Benefits To support employee mental health, employers can offer a range of mental health benefits.

Employee Relations

Employee Relations Workshop Education Insurance

How To Become A Restaurant Manager in 2024: A Comprehensive Guide

7 Shifts

AUGUST 16, 2024

Leadership and communication Leadership and communication are not just skills, but essential qualities for a successful restaurant manager. Meanwhile, managers must balance one-on-one and group restaurant team communication. Effective communication helps identify and resolve issues promptly.

Management

Management Management 2024 Kitchen Safety

Planning For a Positive Work Culture in Your Coffee Shop

Perfect Daily Grind

AUGUST 18, 2019

Demotivated employees, sloppy work, and resignations from your best team members: all things that can make a coffee shop unprofitable. But as a start-up or even an established coffee shop, how can you plan for good employee attitudes and high retention rates? Define & Communicate Your Values. The bar of a coffee shop.

Café

Café Seminar Employee Relations Communication

7 Ways to Deal With the Labor Shortage in 2021

Touch Bistro

JULY 4, 2021

are trying everything and the kitchen sink to recruit and retain employees in the face of a labor shortage the likes of which this industry hasn’t seen in decades. million food service employees lost their jobs in 2020. Bar Restaurant also offers healthcare to full-time employees, which is uncommon in most independent restaurants.

2021

2021 Employee Relations Hiring Recruiting

How to Use ChatGPT to Create Training Material for Restaurant & Cafe Employees

Ken Burgin

JUNE 6, 2023

I love using ChatGPT to develop training activities and materials for restaurant and cafe employees. This is using the Chat in ChatGPT PROMPT: Act as an experienced restaurant trainer who is using ChatGPT to develop content and training activities for restaurant employees.

Training

Training Kitchen Safety Dietary Restrictions Food Safety

Questions in the Minds of Restaurant Job Applicants

Ken Burgin

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Are there opportunities for further training, or to attend workshops and events? Applicants will want to understand the dynamics of the team they’ll be joining, including communication styles, management support, and how the restaurant fosters a positive work environment. How are customer feedback and complaints managed?

Front of House

Front of House Tip Distribution Kitchen Safety Customer Service

The Tasting Menu at the End of the World

EATER

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Most restaurants don’t own and control the majority of the links in their supply chains, but many are already dealing with climate-related issues, even if at a remove, whether it be the droughts and floods that ravage Midwestern farmland or the hurricanes that seasonally batter the Gulf Coast of the United States. “It

Menu

Menu Agriculture Vineyard Seasonal Menu

The restaurant industry needs to step up for women. We asked four leaders how to do it.

7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Consider attending workshops with your team. Salt & Straw uses an internal communication platform called The Dot. Build trust with open communication. Everyone wins when employees are comfortable bringing up issues before they get worse. Restaurant communication apps can help you get there.

Leadership

Leadership FOH BOH Website Management

Creative Recruiting Ideas to Attract Talent-2

Go Hire- Restaurants

MAY 1, 2024

We uncovered recruiting ideas for hourly employees, out-of-the-box recruiting strategies, student recruitment ideas, recruiting ideas for manufacturing, and unique ideas for recruitment event ideas. Do you have an Employee referral program? In the US, the average employee referral program will generate about 40% of new hires.

Recruiting

Recruiting Workshop Seminar Employee Relations

The 19 Deadly Mistakes Restaurants Make

Embrace the Suck

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Attend workshops & seminars. What is your preferred communication style? I need to understand how you will communicate, lead, react to stress, manage tasks, and what is keeping you stuck where you are. One of the major issues in any business is poor communication. So, what can you do to increase your odds?

Coaching

Coaching Training Social Media Take-out

13 Creative Recruiting Ideas to Attract Talent