Culinary Cues

APRIL 23, 2023

Chefs have the experience to do this or the network of professionals who can serve as a planning resource. [] HAVE YOU EVER DEVELOPED, STANDARDIZED, AND THEN TRAINED STAFF TO PREPARE A NEW MENU ITEM: Start to finish, the right way to bring an item to the menu is to go through this process until all the “I’s” are dotted and the “T’s” are crossed.

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Seasonal Menu Leadership Training Fine Dining 481

Crunchtime

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

With a 5-Step Leadership Ladder , you can quickly deploy a talent development program to retain team members and develop bench strength. Wouldn’t it be great if, instead of the mad scramble, you had a bench of available talent already trained for their next role and ready for promotion? It doesn’t have to be.

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Leadership Employee Relations Training Coaching 78

Embrace the Suck

MAY 24, 2023

Step 3: Scout for Personality, Not Just Skills During the hiring process, we sometimes over-emphasize experience while undervaluing the importance of personality. While experience is certainly crucial for specific roles, personality should carry substantial weight in our hiring decisions.

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Recruiting Coaching Hiring Customer Experience 327

EATER

JULY 24, 2020

Among other demands, the letter calls to diversify the board of trustees, and make events more equitable On July 16, a large group of James Beard Foundation employees sent a letter to the foundation’s senior leadership team, outlining a list of demands for the future of the organization.

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Leadership Hiring Events Audits 145

7 Shifts

JANUARY 31, 2024

It's up to the restaurant manager to maintain a warm, welcoming atmosphere and train staff to do the same. For example, you might have to take a larger role in candidate sourcing, recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and even the firing process than you might expect. This goes far beyond training during the first week.

Management 397

Management Management Kitchen Safety Front of House 397

Restaurant365

MARCH 15, 2022

Your hiring strategy must focus on hiring the right employees for your restaurant rather than just filling an open position. And a comprehensive approach to employee retention must be built into your hiring strategy. Consequently, it’s imperative that you hire with a retention mindset.

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Hiring Cash Management Insurance Communication 78

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 30, 2024

Typical restaurant KPIs involve monitoring costs around food, labor and supplies, pricing adjustments, table turnover rates during peak periods, customer wait times, promotion effectiveness, brand sentiment on review sites, and training completion rates. Define the one or two KPIs most critical for your top growth goals.

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Leadership Small Business Cash Management Customer Experience 203

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Through financial recessions, terrorist attacks, global pandemics, and just the typical challenges we face in the course of daily business, there are many leadership lessons to be learned. In the good times, this looks like rigorous training, a dedication to time-honored processes, and a focus on building your culture. Get Better.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 27, 2024

In his new book, Scott Greenberg provides an inspiring, practical framework for management to explore their biases, habits, and leadership styles while learning how to refine the way they manage so they can more effectively recruit, retain, and motivate their hourly teams. Train them to look beyond the rude behavior and “find the need.”

Coaching 110

Coaching Franchise Franchising Leadership 110

7 Shifts

AUGUST 27, 2020

The words ‘employee handbook’ are enough to make any new hire quiver. Doesn’t it make sense to create a restaurant employee handbook that encourages a positive workplace culture through teamwork and training? Watch: 7shifts CEO Jordan Boesch at Toast Food for Thought as he discusses hiring and employee engagement.

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Employee Relations Hiring Document Food Safety 370

Sling

APRIL 25, 2023

Hiring employees with the right combination of qualities can have a positive effect on the productivity and success of your team and your business. 16) Creative Look for (or train) team members who can think outside the box, create solutions to common problems, and find ways to improve things in your business.

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Hiring Communication Small Business Training 78

7 Shifts

APRIL 21, 2023

In that leadership position, he created classes for managers on skills like leadership and cost control. Kelly McCutcheon, Group Director of Training & Development at Whataburger It's hard to say where Kelly McCutcheon's love for training started. Be curious. Or because she comes from a long line of teachers? "Not

Leadership 195

Leadership Training Front of House Customer Experience 195

Culinary Cues

MAY 13, 2023

Training is paramount to attracting and retaining great employees, so these properties typically invest heavily in teaching and training. [] A NETWORK FOR GROWTH And finally, the next step in a cook’s career might not be at the club where he or she is learning. So where will you get exposure to much, if not all of that?

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Hotels Point of Sale Cash Management Training 426

Culinary Cues

AUGUST 31, 2020

In all cases, there will be a re-shuffling of priorities driving changes to the profile of the “best candidate” for the leadership position in the kitchen. This is where you need to be. [] POWER vs. LEADERSHIP. “I This is what brings a team together and firing on all cylinders. [] LACK OF TRAINING.

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Leadership Point of Sale Training Coaching 398

EATER

APRIL 8, 2021

It is also a nonprofit that has spent 30 years training at-risk youth exiting the juvenile detention system to work in hospitality. So the staff and the 15 young people working that night spent most of the evening doing extra training and cleaning to keep busy. Café Momentum is more than just a restaurant, though. Several U.S.

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Training Café Kitchen Safety Back of House 113

Embrace the Suck

JUNE 18, 2021

They do start to train people better than the bad restaurants, yet their training system is still outdated and is usually only done when someone is hired. They want to become better, they just haven’t developed their leadership team enough to be consistent. They shift from a training culture to a learning culture.

Leadership 346

Leadership Small Business Coaching Training 346

7 Shifts

JULY 24, 2020

Topics: Hospitality; hiring and training staff; building workplace culture. ?? To achieve Enlightened Hospitality you need to hire “51 percenters with 5 core emotional skills.” While achieving Enlightened Hospitality may seem redundant while you only serve takeout, it should be a core value of your restaurant and hiring process.

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Book Management Management Restaurant Law 370

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 1, 2022

A recent survey of restaurant operators by the University of South Florida School of Hospitality found that hiring and turnover was their number one challenge. But there are tangible ways to mitigate these hiring and retention challenges, and they all start with putting the restaurant’s team first and foremost.

Front of House 230

Front of House Loyalty Program Back of House Training 230

Restaurant365

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Your individual hiring decisions define your company culture over the long term, impacting both the customer experience and employee retention. Short-term restaurant hiring challenges, like filling open roles because you’re understaffed, may seem like the most urgent day-to-day priority. Offer a competitive wage and benefits.

Hiring 78

Hiring Loyalty Program Employee Relations Recruiting 78

Restaurant365

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Your individual hiring decisions define your company culture over the long term, impacting both customer experience and employee retention. Short-term restaurant hiring challenges, like filling open roles because you’re understaffed, may seem like the most urgent day-to-day priority. Offer a competitive wage and benefits.

Hiring 78

Hiring Recruiting Training Communication 78

Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Every restaurant must constantly invest in training. [] PUTTING ALL OF YOUR EGGS IN THE CHEFS BASKET. I am proud to be a chef and always will be, but a common mistake that restaurateurs make is to turn over the concept and the reputation of their business to that great chef that was just hired. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER.

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Cash Management Point of Sale Leadership Website Management 266

Society Insurance

APRIL 17, 2024

One of the top ways is conflict resolution training. Utilize team building, open communication, and training within a team and an organization in order to improve employee relationship and communication skills. Utilizing better hiring practices and starting employment right is another way to help reduce conflict.

Employee Relations 52

Employee Relations Insurance Leadership Communication 52

7 Shifts

JANUARY 31, 2024

It's up to the restaurant manager to maintain a warm, welcoming atmosphere and train staff to do the same. For example, you might have to take a larger role in candidate sourcing, recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and even the firing process than you might expect. This goes far beyond training during the first week.

Management 195

Management Management Kitchen Safety Front of House 195

7 Shifts

DECEMBER 16, 2021

On the flip side, the number of shifts scheduled for “Training” has increased by 120%, indicating that while leadership is picking up the slack, new hires are coming on at a higher rate than 2019. This is due to a number of factors, but excess turnover from the pandemic is certainly a big one.

Front of House 195

Front of House Back of House 2019 Employee Relations 195

7 Shifts

MARCH 31, 2023

Some of us know that we should - but in between dealing with maintenance issues and hiring new employees, it can be hard enough to take care of yourself, let alone your staff. Because I don't wanna hire the wrong people. And what I've found is that once I have hired those people, I started to see the hourly team changed.”

Hiring 195

Hiring Front of House Back of House Document 195

The Restaurant Times

MARCH 14, 2022

The process to hire a talented chef for your restaurant might be difficult, but it’s an important aspect of your company’s potential to prosper. A chef participates in the training of new employees, supervises cooking operations, prepares menus, and contributes to restaurant marketing decisions. Detail-oriented Approach.

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Hiring Waste Food Order Customer Service 52

The Restaurant Times

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

To thrive in the restaurant business in the USA, you need to hire cooks and create a talented culinary team that can create exceptional cuisines. You might be wondering, how to hire a cook for rush hours, that too at night? You might be wondering, how to hire a cook for rush hours, that too at night? How To Hire Night Cooks? .

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Hiring Operations Kitchen Safety Food Safety 52

Culinary Cues

JANUARY 15, 2022

Expect excellence from them and don’t waver, but at the same time find ways to build on their competence and confidence. [] TEACH and TRAIN: One sure fire way to build competence and confidence is to invest seriously in teaching and training. You hire a person inferring you see their potential and trust they have something to offer.

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Uniforms Front of House Food Safety Healthcare 413

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 3, 2022

My leadership and communication style has evolved over the years as I’ve learned how to adapt to changes and obstacles that are often out of my control. Your employees don’t just want to be a cog in a wheel — they want to be heard, and they want to work under leadership who actively listens. Adaptation.

Communication 203

Communication Leadership Food Supply Back of House 203

Foodable

MAY 14, 2021

Ken has helped launch new concepts and train hospitality leaders throughout the United States and Canada. In part one of his three part series on assembling the right team, McGarrie shares insight on hiring new candidates for your restaurant. Red flags not to hire an applicant. “It

Leadership 84

Leadership Hiring Entertainment Hospitality 84

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The first is hiring and personnel practices, with a greater emphasis on internally hiring and upskilling. Hiring and personnel practices are likely to evolve in two ways. First, hiring internally will be one way to counteract a disrupted labor market in the short-term.

2022 197

2022 Operations Recruiting Hiring 197

Embrace the Suck

JULY 21, 2020

We all have hired someone in our career (a C-player) that we felt deep down we could change to become a superstar or A-player. Look at the quality of people who come to apply to work with you and it will give you an idea of where your leadership game is currently. Upgrade your leadership to A-level. You can’t change them.

Leadership 480

Leadership Hiring Take-out Events 480

7 Shifts

MAY 1, 2023

As part of our Serving What's Next webinar series, four restaurant managers shared their approach to hiring, training, and retaining. She knows while it takes time to hire the right people, it ultimately leads to less turnover. Anytime we have to rush hire, we're setting everybody up for failure," says Piper.

Hiring 195

Hiring Training Management Management 195

7 Shifts

MAY 17, 2022

&pizza takes the idea to what some may consider the extreme; Every employee has cell phone numbers for company leadership—including their CEO, Michael Lastoria. A team member at &pizza texted leadership directly with a photo of an area in their shop that needed new paint. And so we get a lot of direct ideas,” says Andy Hooper.

Insurance 370

Insurance Leadership Customer Experience Sports 370

Culinary Cues

JANUARY 11, 2020

Sometimes the fault lies with a lack of desire to communicate, oftentimes the problem is the incorrect use of communication, but the majority of time the challenge is that leadership has no idea how to effectively communicate a message in a succinct, timely manner. It is important that our sponsors are happy. It’s a win, win.”.

Communication 310

Communication Leadership Employee Relations Entertainment 310

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 3, 2022

My leadership and communication style has evolved over the years as I’ve learned how to adapt to changes and obstacles that are often out of my control. Your employees don’t just want to be a cog in a wheel — they want to be heard, and they want to work under leadership who actively listens. Adaptation.

Communication 167

Communication Leadership Food Supply Back of House 167

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 20, 2022

million open jobs, with organizations challenged to hire amidst unprecedented competition for talent. Look for additional ways to empower professional development and leadership skills. Amongst those who left their workplace, one-fourth of those were in the hospitality industry. As of early 2022, there were still 11.5

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