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The Winning Strategy: Attracting and Retaining Top Talent for Your Restaurant – A Four-Step Approach

Embrace the Suck

But these fresh recruits often stick around only briefly before setting off, triggering a repeating cycle of worry. Step 2: Proactive Recruitment Unearthing top-tier talent demands active recruitment. Instead, we should be on the offense, taking our recruitment strategy to the talent pool. It's astounding! Are they alive?

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The Top 10 Things Learned from Working with 1000+ Restaurants

Embrace the Suck

Are you actively recruiting talent each week or just placing a couple of boring job ads hoping that the next superstar is going to walk in? I’ve had clients track their activities for a week and they are always shocked when they see how much time they waste doing stupid activities! Communication in restaurants sucks!

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How to Create a Restaurant Staff Training Manual

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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.)

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The New Normal: How Technology Can Help Streamline Restaurant Operations

Modern Restaurant Management

According to the 2021 State of the Restaurant Industry Mid-Year Update , more than 3 in 4 restaurant operators struggle with recruitment and retention, despite an increase in employment. Technology also helps bridge communication between restaurant management and staff. Food safety and restaurant cleanliness. Staff Management.

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How to Create a Powerful Employment Page on your Restaurant or Café Website

Ken Burgin

With ever-increasing staff shortages, it’s time to use your own website as part of the recruitment drive. This page is your non-stop recruitment tool. Positions currently available – keep these updated, or embed the application list from recruitment services like JobAdder or Seek if you use them.

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A Guide to the Role of a Restaurant Manager: Duties, Daily Routine, and Essential Skills

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Inventory management Managers need to ensure the kitchen is stocked with the right amount of food so that nothing is wasted and as few items need to be 86'ed as possible. Log item transfers and wastes. An effective leader inspires and motivates the team and uses their communication skills to foster a collaborative environment.

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Absence and Wellbeing: Challenges and Opportunities for the Restaurant Sector

Modern Restaurant Management

In addition to cost considerations, efforts to structure these types of benefits are complicated by compliance requirements and the challenge of communicating and promoting a positive employee experience. The ROI of enhancing benefits is wasted if employees don’t understand what is being provided.