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Safety Training and a Strong Safety Culture: The Recipe for Mitigating Restaurant Risk

Modern Restaurant Management

As the focus for restaurants continues to center on growing and staffing up, safety training can sometimes get lost in the mix or ratcheted down to cover only topics related to compliance with regulations. That won’t cut it in an industry that faces major risks associated with employee injuries and food safety.

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

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You're responsible for tactical duties like training new hires, conducting performance reviews, disciplining rule breakers and poor performers, and handling compensation changes—in addition to more interpersonal tasks like mentorship and ensuring professional growth. Check employee schedules to ensure plans match reality.

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Employee Engagement Best Practices for Restaurants

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The people you hire to run your restaurant can make or break the business. Much like profit and loss, employee engagement is a metric that every restaurateur should be tracking regularly. Why Care About Employee Engagement? So what’s the big deal about employee engagement? First things first: what is it?

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What to Include in Your Restaurant Employee Handbook

7 Shifts

The words ‘employee handbook’ are enough to make any new hire quiver. Having to spend a shift—or even worse, your after-hours—reading through an employee handbook will sap the fun out of any new restaurant job. The introduction to your restaurant employee handbook Think of your employee handbook as a welcome to your restaurant.

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Upping the Ante: This Week in Restaurant Staffing

Modern Restaurant Management

As part of its effort to hire 20,000 new team members, Chipotle is increasing restaurant wages resulting in a $15 average hourly wage by the end of June. They are looking to hire 10,000 new employees over the next three months. Applebees is also hoping the lure of free food will be a draw for potential employees.

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Hiring Former Offenders

ExactHire - Restaurants

Now Hiring! Go to the primary source for job openings – online job boards encompass an endless list of companies who are hiring for all levels of roles. Companies need employees now, and if companies do not meet their staffing needs to operate, doors will close—maybe permanently. Hiring Former Offenders.

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How To Hire And Retain Restaurant Staff In 2022

The Restaurant Times

Employee retention is the capacity of an organization to retain its staff. Retaining employees is a complex process, and it requires ongoing efforts. You’ve invested a lot in them, so removing them (or letting them go) would mean investing capital and beginning the new hiring program again. How to Hire New Staff.

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