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Restaurant Hiring: Navigating the Labor Shortage

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Now as we enter a recovery stage, the biggest challenge that's emerged has become finding enough staff to fit the demand. As we start to welcome back workers, doing things as they were before isn't going to work—especially in hiring. That all begins at the hiring level. Restaurants are employing more delivery drivers than ever.

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The Importance of Flexibility in Restaurant Hiring

Modern Restaurant Management

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked Mark Heymann, a labor expert and CEO of UniFocus, for his insights on navigating post-pandemic restaurant recovery through effective hiring and training. In what ways is training a key factor in restaurant recovery?

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OUR DAILY BREATH: AFTER COVID-19 RESTAURANT CONCEPT IDEATION

Culinary Cues

It might have been the purpose of the restaurant, the over-riding theme, the systems used, the menu, the staffing model, the hours of operation, the way that you compensate employees – or for that matter the type of employees that you hired – certainly there is something that you wish that you could do over. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER.

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OUR DAILY BREATH: IDEATION AND SCENARIO PLANNING

Culinary Cues

Possible strategy: Be proactive with a well defined, enhanced sanitation and food handling protocol for your restaurant and relay this information to your guests. Make sure that every employee is properly trained and on-board with the importance of this process. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. Harvest America Ventures, LLC.

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The Not So Great Resignation: Unseen Risks and Mitigation of Costs

Modern Restaurant Management

While we see national economic recovery in numbers such as the aforementioned jobs report; yet, I’m still sitting here, waiting for my pizza. There are a few reasons: New employees often lack training; ill-equipped and inexperienced workers sustain more injuries trying to use machinery or tools with which they are not familiar.

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A LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

Culinary Cues

This business employs more people than any other except the government, is the portal industry for first jobs for a majority of Americans, and an essential industry that not only feeds our people, but also provides rewards, positive interaction, laughter, and emotional support for guests from coast to coast. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER.

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Mobility Equals Flexible Ops: Hotel Purchasing & Inventory from Anywhere

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A mid the tumult of a chaotic global hotel market, brands of all sizes are reckoning with myriad unexpected factors — worldwide supply chain disruptions resulting in temporary inflation , nationwide labor shortages confining operations, and regional lingering restrictions limiting growth — each making the global recovery slower than expected.

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