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Questions in the Minds of Restaurant Job Applicants

Ken Burgin

By proactively addressing these questions during the interview process or in job postings, you can create a more effective recruitment experience. How are tips distributed among front-of-house and kitchen staff? What is the kitchen’s work culture like? This may become more apparent during a trial shift.

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Using Technology to Combat the Labor Shortage

Modern Restaurant Management

Particularly impacted by the staffing shortage, restaurants are struggling to beat the labor crisis, with staffing shortages felt in both back-of-house and front-of-house staff. Although employment numbers are on the upswing, employment at eating and drinking establishments was still 1.5 Bureau of Labor statistics.

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How to write a restaurant marketing plan that puts butts in seats [Ideas and Strategies]

7 Shifts

You need to put yourself in front of diners, get them in your door, and turn them into ambassadors of your restaurant that come back and tell their friends about you. Restaurant owners and operators wear a lot of hats. We live in a world where diners are inundated with choices. There are more options for eating out than ever before.

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A 2021 Guide to Kitchen Staffing During the Back of House Labor Shortage

Touch Bistro

The challenge is, the restaurant industry has been struggling with a shortage of chefs and other back of house staff for several years now. This report also revealed that the labor shortage was specific to back of house staff, with more than half (52%) of full service restaurants experiencing kitchen staffing shortages. Download Now.

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How bartaco approaches pay equity at their restaurants

7 Shifts

I think there's been a very big change in landscape of how we're recruiting and how purpose-driven restaurants need to be versus just selling an experience.” “Yeah, I've always been admiring from a distance, the Barteca brand when it was Barcelona and bartaco. What does your brand mean? How is your brand involved in the community?

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New & Notable: TEAM Schostak Celebrates 40, AI in Food Service and Beachy Tech

Modern Restaurant Management

New & Notable spotlights the latest news restaurateurs need to know. TEAM Schostak Family Celebrates Anniversary and Employees. TEAM Schostak Family Restaurants (TSFR) is celebrating its 40th anniversary along with the anniversaries of employees that have been with the company for 20 years or more.

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State of the Industry and More Restaurant Research

Modern Restaurant Management

Our hiring rate and wage increases are outpacing the overall private sector, and this year our industry will contribute nearly $1 trillion to the economy," said Michelle Korsmo, president & CEO of the National Restaurant Association. "The million by the end of 2023.

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