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Staffing Issues Every Restaurant Owner Should Focus on Post-Pandemic

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The hospitality industry is the third largest employer in the United States (behind healthcare and government.) Be creative when it comes to how to recruit, hire and retain employees. It’s a workforce of over 15 million people that all contribute to our country’s economy and culture in a major way.

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Employ Marketing Tactics to Attract Workers

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Put your marketing skills to work to recruit new talent and fill open job positions at your quick-service restaurant. While government assistance programs and widening the talent pool are one way to conquer the issue, restaurant operators can implement new strategies to help ease the labor shortage by using marketing tactics.

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Pandemic Reflections: What Lessons Has the Restaurant Industry Learned?, Part Two

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– Peter Kellis, CEO of TRAY Since the pandemic, it has been complicated managing through government issues, supply chain issues, manufacturing shortages of restaurant equipment and, of course, hardest of all the loss of great staff and managers who were forced to leave the hospitality industry.

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Five Tips to Minimize Super-Sized Labor Costs

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These expenses include money spent on recruiting, hiring, and training new staff, and lost productivity. One effective way of accessing a long-term and consistent supply of entry-level, motivated foreign workers is through the EB-3 visa program , a government program helping employers recruit skilled or unskilled workers from other countries.

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Restaurant Management Masterclass

Speaker: Harlan Scott, Founder of Harlan Scott Hospitality and Industry Restaurant

Due first to necessary staffing cuts, extreme safety protocols, and now the need to rehire against outsized government stimulus, unemployment benefits and wage requirements, managing and staffing have become the most urgent conversation in restaurants today.

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ARE YOU READY?

Culinary Cues

With the help of the federal government (without their help I cant imagine any business surviving let alone the average citizen), restaurants began to experiment with delivery, remote pick-up, using technology to minimize employee interaction, and later ghost kitchens that saved the day for some, but changed our industry entirely.

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Hungry for Growth: The Restaurant Industry in 2022

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In addition, 75 percent of restaurant operators say recruiting employees was their top challenge, the highest level ever recorded. Increased Consumer Demand for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Policies. While this has created many new jobs, restaurants and bars are struggling to find the talent to fill these positions.

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