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Restaurant Workforce Research: Reflecting on 2024 and Optimizing for 2025

Modern Restaurant Management

Here’s a look at some of the key findings so you can reflect on 2024 and prepare for maximum growth in 2025. percent in 2024 and added 210,300 jobs, a standout category led the pack. Thirty percent of respondents named recruiting their top challenge, while 27 percent said retention was.

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Despite Improved 2024 Outlook, Labor, and Other Risks May Drag Restaurants Down

Modern Restaurant Management

restaurant industry will continue to shake off the aftereffects of the pandemic in 2024, but that doesn’t mean the challenges that remain are easily dispelled. Beyond recruiting, many employers are responding to the tight labor market by sharpening their focus on the kind of employee experience they’re providing.

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A Tight Labor Market: The New Normal

Modern Restaurant Management

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. Prepare for Economic Changes : Stay ahead of the curve with economic forecasts predicting the continuation of these trends into 2024. The bottom line?

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MRM Research Roundup: Holiday Spending, Franchise Optimism, and Pickle Energy

Modern Restaurant Management

This final edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup for 2024 features news of operator challenges and priorities, delivery trends, wages and hourly worker considerations. As operators look to bolster these two key areas, they’re also closely watching employee training and guest preferences.

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Five Tips to Minimize Super-Sized Labor Costs

Modern Restaurant Management

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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MRM Research Roundup: Labor Struggles, Holiday Habits, and Food Truck Trends

Modern Restaurant Management

This finding from Expert Market’s 2024 F&B Industry Report sheds light on a clear culinary gap within the industry's workforce. Staff retention struggles However, recruitment issues aren’t the only factor contributing to staff shortages. titled Pricing Strategies Driving Restaurant Visits in 2024.

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The Best Frozen Pizzas, According to Eater Staff

EATER

Is this the CPK BBQ Chicken of 2024? Second, Pi00a — a deaf- and CODA (child of deaf adult)-owned brand — has made its workplace 100 percent accessible for the deaf community, and actively recruits, hires, and trains deaf employees. Quite possibly.)