7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Hiring the right people can make or break your business. Can you provide an example of how you’ve improved employee performance through training? What interview questions do you ask when hiring new restaurant employees? Can you provide an example of how you’ve improved employee performance through training?

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Culinary Cues

JULY 15, 2024

We hire and fire, increase pay, or add more staff, change restaurant menus or add convenience foods to reduce the need for qualified employees, or simply accept that poor attitudes and inconsistent product are just “the way it is.” A training investment in your people is an investment in the success of the business.

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Leadership Food Truck Employee Relations Training 420

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 23, 2023

We focus on team development and define it as our team cycle which includes things like recruitment and hiring, onboarding and training, as well as evaluation of compensation and benefits. We strive to empower our employees by coaching them for long-term success. Fourth, adopt a coaching mentality.

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Coaching Employee Relations Hospitality Social Media 493

Culinary Cues

MAY 5, 2021

TRAINING AND DELEGATION: Yes, the hospitality industry has plenty of responsibility for this situation that can only be resolved through teaching and training managers and chefs to be more efficient with their time, able to discover how to prioritize their tasks and learn when and how some of this work can trickle down to other staff members.

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Hotels Employee Relations Coaching Training 429

Hot Schedules

MAY 10, 2021

Seasonal Staff Playbook: Hiring, Training & Retaining Great Teams. So how do you stack your bench and coach your own team to maximum efficiency? PLAY #1: Hire Quality Seasonal Staff. Hiring quality seasonal staff should be at the top of the list because we all know your starting line-up can make or break the season.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 2, 2022

As a manager, hiring an employee doesn’t mean your job is over. Training must take place and periodically measuring their performance is critical in making sure the restaurant is running smoothly.

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Management Management Point of Sale Front of House 474

Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Your employees will look forward to interaction with this type of leader. [] WHEN YOU ARE NOT SERVING THE PUBLIC DIRECTLY – SERVE SOMEONE WHO IS You can’t be everywhere, so you need to instead focus more on being a coach and a supporter. Now that you have invested all that effort, it’s time to trust them to do the job you hired them for.

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Coaching Restaurant Law Training Article 383

Embrace the Suck

JANUARY 20, 2021

The new hires stay for a few weeks but end up leaving, and the cycle of anxiety begins again. I have a rule that all my coaching clients must follow: 100% Thank U’s. Don’t take this the wrong way: You’re hiring people for the wrong reasons. Many operators are struggling to find any staff! Are they breathing?

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Recruiting Coaching Hiring Take-out 384

7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

There was no learning curve — they found the app easy to use and easy to train their managers on. This is something that we have our managers use on a weekly basis as well, so teaching them and training them how to do it literally takes no more than 15 minutes,” says Allie. 7shifts was very easy to get started with.

Website Management 195

Website Management Communication Point of Sale Coaching 195

Culinary Cues

JULY 8, 2024

Training, teaching, coaching, and mentoring are the most important attributes of a successful chef. When this happens then success is measurable and, those failures are less evident because a well-coached team doesn’t allow them to happen. We (chefs) are first and foremost – teachers.

Coaching 382

Coaching Certification Hiring Training 382

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 8, 2022

So much so that she’s made it her career’s work: as Chief Talent Officer at Sonny’s BBQ, Schatz is ever-passionate about coaching and developing talent and, most importantly, creating a positive career experience for the barbecue brand’s thousands of employees.

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2001 Coaching Hiring Take-out 473

Culinary Cues

MAY 8, 2023

The chef is responsible for hiring, training, coaching, evaluating, and scheduling employees keeping in mind their skill level, personal issues and responsibilities, demands of specific positions in the kitchen (not everyone fits in every role), and an ever-changing influx of customers with their own demands.

Kitchen Safety 442

Kitchen Safety Food Safety Coaching Training 442

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

They hire, train, develop, and engage your customer facing team members. Team members no longer want command-and-control, top-down bosses – they want coaches. Unless you start hiring and developing great front-line managers, any type of change you want to create will fail. What does this all mean to you?

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 19, 2022

You can put a great deal of energy into finding the best person for the job and training that person to understand every aspect of the business model. I’ve also found it’s easier to hire cooks, waitstaff, and hostesses with limited hours. They can also commit to coaching Little League or taking college classes at night.

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Specials Coaching Customer Experience Customer Service 493

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 27, 2024

Greenberg is an internationally recognized speaker, author and coach with franchise clients that include McDonalds, Great Clips, GNC, RE/MAX, Smoothie King, Global Franchise Group and many more. Train them to look beyond the rude behavior and “find the need.” Poor training. What they do own is the culture.

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Coaching Franchise Franchising Book 275

7 Shifts

JUNE 3, 2022

According to Jim Taylor, a restaurant coach at BenchmarkSixty , restaurants can afford to pay employees more by looking for efficiencies in their productivity. Showcase your core values in your employee handbook, in new-hire training, on your company careers page. The Solution: Create a training program.

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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 Hiring Coaching Customer Experience 335

Embrace the Suck

JANUARY 13, 2021

Now, before you say, “ But Coach, you are an anomaly and my situation is different.” I have coached thousands of independent restaurant owners like you to seek that elusive state of finally breaking free from your restaurant running you. Now, you might say, “But Coach, I do trust my team!” Not always.

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Coaching Back of House Front of House Take-out 360

Culinary Cues

AUGUST 31, 2020

The power of leadership comes with tremendous responsibility to listen, treat others with respect, study an issue and avoid making rash decisions, and an understanding that his or her role is that of guide, coach, and mentor – not dictator. [] LACK OF EMPATHY. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. Harvest America Ventures, LLC.

Leadership 412

Leadership Point of Sale Training Coaching 412

Embrace the Suck

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Hire a business coach (okay that was a little self-promotion…LOL). It all starts with more training, explaining the “why”, and making the systems a non-negotiable. Mistake #6: They have an outdated hiring system (or worse) they panic hire. They have no system for hiring! Find a mentor.

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Coaching Training Social Media Hiring 337

Culinary Cues

MARCH 25, 2021

Chefs must know how to identify, hire, train, mentor, coach, evaluate, and sometimes cut a team member loose if his or her presence has a negative impact on the team. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. This network is there to help, advise, critique, support, and sometimes stop a chef from making a decision. CAFÉ Talks Podcast.

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Communication Coaching Fine Dining Influencer 443

Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

They hire, train, critique, support, celebrate, and rally behind the members of the team that has been built and push each individual to contribute his or her best – always. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. Create a Team Built to Win. Well-run organizations – in this case a kitchen, are built to win. Harvest America Ventures, LLC.

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Fine Dining Coaching Dine-in Café 421

Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

THE LAW: It is not enough to hire competent people. The chef must be the coach who recognizes strengths and weaknesses and builds consensus around common goals so that the machine works properly. [] A Teacher and a Trainer. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. THE LAW: Look to the chef to see how the kitchen will act.

Restaurant Law 421

Restaurant Law Coaching Café Sourcing 421

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's People & Places column features news of company hires and promotions, charitable efforts and product introductions. The restaurant will include a nearly 600-square-foot sports memorabilia exhibit with Coach Spurrier’s 1966 Heisman Trophy as the centerpiece. Byron Duncan.

Coaching 419

Coaching Point of Sale Customer Experience Retail 419

Culinary Cues

MARCH 22, 2023

Vince Lombardi, considered by many to be the greatest football coach of all time said: “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.” They hire and train the most dedicated professionals to execute the plan, and they are always focused on the details. Lots of questions without answers.

Coaching 382

Coaching Fine Dining Café Training 382

7 Shifts

JULY 29, 2021

7shifts also helps Kaldi's categorize hourly team members vs those who are still training. “We We can very easily look at how much labor is being spent on training, that we love,” says Methvin. Some people from the café; applied and we hired one of them. We have a training journal as well, so we put that in there,” says Kildron.

Communication 370

Communication Employee Relations Coaching 2014 370

7 Shifts

OCTOBER 16, 2023

7shifts set out to solve this industry challenge by building a true all-in-one app that serves the entire restaurant employee lifecycle from hiring, training, and scheduling to paying and retaining. Well-trained and engaged staff contribute to better customer satisfaction. Hire It’s hard to find good staff.

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Tip Distribution Document Hiring Training 221

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 shift from a training culture to a learning culture. Focus: Now they start to get some basic checklists in place and start to get more organized.

Leadership 354

Leadership Small Business Marketing Coaching 354

Culinary Cues

MARCH 3, 2024

Anyone who has been hired as a new employee knows the feeling of being on the outside of groupism. Some studies have shown that the highest attrition in many kitchens happens within the first two weeks of employment. Let’s work together to heal the wounds and do the collaborative, creative, and honest work of the cook and server.

Leadership 381

Leadership Restaurant Law Social Media Sports 381

Embrace the Suck

MARCH 27, 2020

Because we throw people into a major leadership role and we don’t train them adequately before they take the position. The owner side eluded me until I got a business coach who schooled me on how to build a brand and a business. To be truthful, if it wasn’t for that coach, I would have closed within six months.

Leadership 343

Leadership Cash Management Coaching Take-out 343

7 Shifts

JANUARY 31, 2023

Having strong employee retention means less time and money spent on hiring and training, less knowledge loss, increased productivity, and better customer service. Provide additional assistance, training, and coaching to disengaged employees to inspire them to be more invested and engaged in their work.

Coaching 195

Coaching Training Book Customer Service 195

EATER

MAY 24, 2021

Joey Pham, who is now a baker and spiritual coach at their own business Flavor Supreme , started working at Fat Rice in 2014 as a line cook and says they were eventually driven away by Conlon’s bullying. “I The results of the survey were used to craft new employee training, which includes such topics as racism and bystander preparedness.

Leadership 269

Leadership Website Management Social Media Hospitality 269

7 Shifts

JULY 12, 2023

She joined us on The Pre-Shift Podcast to discuss her philosophy on managing a team, including how she coaches managers. I have to do one or the other and it doesn't make sense to hire someone at Poppy + Rose when I can do this. You're classically trained. And that all begins with hiring the right people.

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Front of House Back of House Take-out Book 370

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.”

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Hiring Front of House Back of House Document 195

Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Are we promoting the subtle background noise of sizzling steaks, a few dings from pots and pans, and the expeditor calmly coaching the team of line cooks? The right balance is critical and worth hiring sound technicians to design early on.

Fine Dining 327

Fine Dining Dine-in Front of House Design 327

Embrace the Suck

JUNE 8, 2019

John Wooden (the famous UCLA Men’s Basketball Coach) was notorious for having his team drill on the fundamentals. Step Two: Hire the Right People. You need to resist this urge to hire quickly. So how do you safeguard against a bad hire? That means getting back to fundamentals. Behavioral assessment.

Leadership 221

Leadership Hiring Bar Restaurant Law 221

Restaurant365

APRIL 26, 2022

Hiring restaurant employees and retaining them is no longer just an issue for the HR team. As the staffing shortage continues to negatively impact profitability, you as a CFO must play a critical role in your restaurant group’s hiring and retention strategy. Addressing the hiring crunch.

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Hiring Employee Relations Front of House Back of House 78