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2025 Restaurant Outlook: A Recipe for Success with Risk Management

Modern Restaurant Management

By mid-2024, 82 percent of food and beverage operators were still actively recruiting, with chefs and cooks comprising 30 percent of open roles. Economic shifts including inflation-driven cost increases in food, utilities and supplies; regulatory changes and climate-related disruptions will continue to challenge restaurant operators.

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THE NEXT GENERATION OF COOKS & CHEFS

Culinary Cues

This will be done as one component of a recruitment/retention effort designed to address a dwindling labor pool. [] SUSTAINABILITY FOCUSED: This next generation understands the importance of working within a sustainability model that looks at the ingredients they buy, the seasonality of those ingredients, reducing the carbon footprint of the supply (..)

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

Modern Restaurant Management

Supply chain disruptions and labor shortages required operators to rethink everything – leaner menus, smarter kitchens, and more efficient operations became the new standard. . Leading brands like Cracker Barrel are already using on-demand interviews and AI-driven assessments to cut down on administrative tasks for recruiters.

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WILL THE RESTAURANT EXPERIENCE BECOME IMPERSONAL

Culinary Cues

Chefs and restaurateurs invested in recruiting students at regional culinary colleges for internship and permanent positions after graduation, but those schools are struggling to find students to enroll whats going on? The knee jerk reaction is to rely on technology to save us. This must be the answer right?

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ARE YOU READY?

Culinary Cues

By now you should have a way to compensate for this through in-service training of less qualified hires, bonuses for exceptional employees, profit sharing, non-traditional recruiting methods, or even the use of technology and automation. The supply chain is fragile and now with imposed tariffs this may become an even greater concern.

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Restaurant Operations Management: A Guide for Restaurant Owners

ChowNow

On the flip side, poor operations can lead to inefficiencies that snowballlike staffing issues that slow down service, supply chain mishaps that throw off the menu, or rising costs that eat into profits. Constantly recruiting and training new employees is both costly and disruptive. Great restaurant operations dont happen by accident.

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5 Things to Consider Before Opening a Restaurant in 2025

The Rail

Starting with a too broad or complicated menu results in supply chain problems , training difficulties, and waste from common mistakes. Recruiting and keeping seasoned front-of-house and kitchen employees calls for careful handling of leadership, culture, and compensation.