Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 3, 2022

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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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

But in a difficult hiring environment, how do you build a great reputation without jeopardizing your bottom line? And in 2023, that’s the problem most hiring managers in the restaurant industry are facing. And knowing where to market may be what sets your hiring apart from your competition. What do they want?

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Not surprising, as it has been reported on consistently, recruiting employees is the top concern for restaurants in fall of 2021, after Coronavirus shook up our economies and our definitions of success. Recruiting employees was the top concern in 2019 , before the COVID-19 pandemic rocked the restaurant world. Surprising? Make It Fast.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 7, 2024

The tightening labor market of 2024 presents a complex set of challenges for business owners, from a shrinking labor force to the increasing prevalence of counteroffers. The labor market landscape has shifted recently in ways that few could have predicted even a few years ago. percent in 2022 to 60.4

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Pre-pandemic, it’s likely that a good portion of your marketing efforts were focused on communicating with guests on site. That — combined with intermittent website updates, social posts, and being actively involved in your communities in the kind of way COVID upended — was enough marketing for many restaurants.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 6, 2025

Rather than just another hiring season, or a lull, labor-intensive industries such as restaurants face a permanent labor shortage. However, by spearheading innovative programs to retain some of the experienced workers retiring from the labor pool they can improve the training, recruitment, and retention of young workers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 22, 2022

Right now, the restaurant industry has experienced rapid employee turnover and staffing shortages, which is impacting how recruiters are bringing on new talent for food service roles. Recruiters today must stay nimble in their communication approach with candidates to remain competitive in attracting top talent. Intelligent Messaging.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

With the lowest unemployment rate we've seen in two decades, employers are definitely feeling the fact that we are experiencing a job seekers market. In a job seekers market, if we don’t alter our approach to sourcing, recruiting, and hiring, we'll be left with open jobs and few applicants to fill them.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

While it’s difficult to draw a straight line between these continuing outages and any single underlying cause, it’s impossible to have a discussion on the matter without taking into account the current status of the talent market. Right now, it is a candidate-short market across the board. Big Changes are Necessary.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2021

Two-thirds of new hires signing up for DailyPay. Now more people are back to work and everyone is hiring. That’s why being creative and flexible has been a key mindset for hiring.” ” Being creative and flexible has been a key mindset for hiring. People were in between jobs or suddenly out of work.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

With slow seasons also comes the need to navigate seasonal layoffs and the task of hiring all the best people back the next season. Use this time to invest in training, develop relationships with potential clients and referral sources, explore possible acquisitions or new markets, and upgrade outdated technology. Hire the Right People.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

With a growing number of technology providers entering the market in recent years, restaurant operators have also become more discerning as they manage already tight budgets. One of the easiest ways to reduce hiring friction is by streamlining the application and interview process. The biggest shift?

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Black Box Intelligence

MARCH 7, 2025

Recruiting and Retaining Restaurant Staff for Growth Insights from Kura Sushis Strategy Hiring and keeping great employees is a major challenge for restaurants today. Here are the biggest takeaways from their recruiting and retaining staff process. This has placed a high emphasis on hiring and training employees quickly.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

But while some may predict a future with burger-flipping robots, it’s hard to imagine tech taking the place of a skilled line cook, experienced server, or seasoned marketer. Difficulty in attracting and hiring employees is certainly at the crux of the labor shortage crisis. Marketing Automation to Maximize Team Bandwidth.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 19, 2021

From kitchen staff to waitstaff and janitors to managers, the industry is faced with one of the tightest labor markets in years amid an economic recovery from one of the worst crises in living memory. First, the amount of time managers spend recruiting can have a distracting domino effect on food service operations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 10, 2021

The food and beverage industry is on a hiring frenzy. A recent study by The Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that, despite regular hiring since this spring, the food and beverage industry still remains 1.5 In order to meet this massive shortfall, restaurants have had to up the ante on their recruitment drives.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Staff productivity plays the largest role in restaurant revenue, which is why it’s so important to invest in your recruiting and hiring strategies, finding like-minded individuals to move your restaurant forward while minimizing time waste.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 15, 2024

These expenses include money spent on recruiting, hiring, and training new staff, and lost productivity. Train Employees Training increases service speed and instills multitasking skills in employees, maximizing productivity without needing to hire additional staff. percent compared to other industries’ rate of 4.9

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To recruit new talent and alleviate strains on current staff, restaurant managers are looking for new ways to streamline their operations and enhance the employee experience. A mobile employee experience has now become table stakes in seamlessly recruiting, onboarding, training and managing staff. Embracing Digital Transformation.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 3, 2021

We are now in a market that favors employees and that means that restaurant owners will need to get creative to attract top talent. To do that you need to understand why employees are quitting and why hiring now is so difficult. In effect, we are in an employee’s market. of restaurant workers quitting their jobs.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

To learn what operators can do to recruit and retain, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine reached out to Opal Wagnac, SVP of Market & Product Strategy at isolved, who works with QSR HR practitioners. On the other hand, maintaining robust recruitment and training are also key challenges as HR tries to combat employee churn.

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Embrace the Suck

MAY 24, 2023

But these fresh recruits often stick around only briefly before setting off, triggering a repeating cycle of worry. Step 2: Proactive Recruitment Unearthing top-tier talent demands active recruitment. Instead, we should be on the offense, taking our recruitment strategy to the talent pool. It's astounding! Are they alive?

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Goliath Consulting

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Restaurant staffing was hard enough before the pandemic, with common hurdles such as no-shows, mistake hires and high turnover rates (1). According to an analysis from Workstream, a text recruiting and hiring tool for local businesses, this is partly due to the disruptions in the normal hiring process (6). Be Flexible.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The survey found the top activities are: Increasing marketing efforts (41 percent). Staying nimble to meet the demand of new market needs and demands is crucial to maintaining the health of your business, whether there is a pandemic or not. Changing their hiring and recruiting processes (47 percent). Pivot, Then Repeat.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 16, 2025

Are you developing menu concepts that shy away from typically high-cost ingredients and ones that are sensitive to market fluctuation? Are you planning to buy from within a shorter market reach? Labor cost will continue to escalate and finding good employees will remain a problem whether we are in a crisis or not.

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The Rail

APRIL 14, 2025

Whether for operations expansion, equipment upgrades, staff recruiting, or more marketing activity, growth calls for resources. By raising operating capacity, you can maintain efficiency while satisfying rising market needs. Good marketing plans raise awareness, build credibility, and increase revenue.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And with Gen-Zers set to hold up to 36 percent of the workforce by the end of this year, employers will need to take note of their demands to recruit and retain this generation. With another 60 million or so candidates for EWA in the United States alone, we’re early in the market's growth.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

They advise them on how to market their restaurant. Consequently, many people with little or no management experience are suddenly responsible for hiring, training, and managing employees without the involvement of their franchisor. These brands promise to provide franchisees with the complete playbook for business success.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 11, 2022

This can include asking for recommendations or referrals for new hires, as well as checking in on the morale and mental health of the team. First and foremost, restauranteurs should explore every available option to ensure they are compensating staff fairly based on prevailing market wages.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 31, 2022

Restaurant owners or managers would rather spend time on other meaningful tasks, such as recruiting and hiring, training chefs, or updating daily specials on the menu. For example, restaurants can send customers personalized marketing messages to keep them engaged and encourage them to dine again.

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The Rail

MARCH 14, 2025

In today's competitive market, you also need to be authentic with your atmosphere and giving a culturally enriching experience. Hiring international staff can help you achieve that authentic atmosphere and experience youre looking to give guests. Therefore, ensure that you hire without bias while considering cultural diversity.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

After graduating from the University of Washington and starting a career in headhunting in Los Angeles, we decided to act on our entrepreneurial spirit and start our own recruiting firm. Our employee compensation strategy is to spend less to recruit and hire people. In particular, the value of a happy and valued employee.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Tackle the Labor Shortage with Hiring Incentives. While sales are trending higher, the National Restaurant Association reports three in four operators say recruitment and retention is their toughest challenge. According to Tech Jury , the data analytics market is expected to reach $103 billion by 2021. Further, 97.2%

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Open for Business

AUGUST 10, 2023

Knowing how to hire employees can make or break your restaurant. Whether you’re staffing a new restaurant, looking for seasonal employees , or streamlining your interview process, you always want to know the best way to hire restaurant employees. Knowing where to hire restaurant staff is half the battle.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A drop in employee retention & difficulty in hiring. Managers lack the tools to properly schedule employees and plan for shifting consumer demands, and as a result, businesses are paying for redundant overworked labor, or having to manage with inadequate labor due to hiring challenges. This issue will carry into 2022 and beyond.

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ChowNow

MARCH 14, 2025

Effective labor management means hiring the right people, providing thorough training , creating efficient schedules, and building a culture that keeps employees engaged. Marketing and Customer Engagement Even the best-run restaurant wont thrive if no one knows about it.

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