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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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 23, 2020

With a thorough and well thought out training plan. It’s easy to rush training and skip past essential topics when you’re short-staffed or in your busy season or during the pandemic, but investing time in training can save you time and earn your business more money in the long run. Continuous Training.

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Communication Training Dietary Restrictions Customer Service 178

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.

Hotels 425

Hotels Employee Relations Coaching Training 425

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

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

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 438

Kitchen Safety Food Safety Coaching Training 438

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

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

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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Tip Distribution Email Marketing Communication Coaching 397

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.

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Coaching Fine Dining Café Training 378

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

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

There are several reasons why new employees may be incurring more injuries: Poor hiring choices. The hiring process may be rushed, and the wrong person could be chosen for the job. Hasty hiring choices can lead to faster turnover, operational problems, and potentially more on-the-job injuries. Inadequate training.

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Management Management Food Safety Hiring 201

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 110

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

Ken Burgin

AUGUST 1, 2023

These are designed for training restaurant managers and head chefs in problem-solving and resource allocation. Some of the ways to use these situations for training and coaching… Let people choose the one they want to answer and give them 5 minutes to make notes and prepare their answers.

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Training Management Management Kitchen Safety 60

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.

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Coaching Training Book Customer Service 195

7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Hiring a great kitchen manager can transform your BOH operations with outstanding culinary and leadership skills. Look for examples in their answers that demonstrate their team management and training skills, as well as their approach to maintaining kitchen standards. But how do you find the right person?

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Back of House Management Management Operations 195

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 197

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.

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Leadership Point of Sale Training Coaching 408

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

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 440

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 418

Restaurant Law Coaching Café Sourcing 418

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 378

Leadership Restaurant Law Social Media Sports 378

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

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.

Management 189

Management Management Point of Sale Front of House 189

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.

Fine Dining 418

Fine Dining Coaching Dine-in Café 418

Rocket Fuel

MAY 12, 2022

Having an experienced, well-trained staff supports an efficient and effective operation and results in improved SoS and consistently higher VOC scores. . Evaluating the Effectiveness of Training and Onboarding Programs . Take a critical look at your training and onboarding programs – Are you following the brand’s training program?

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Coaching Training Hiring Customer Service 52

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

Perfect Daily Grind

JANUARY 23, 2023

Coaching and training Wilford Lamastus Jr. If a competitor wants to perform well at the WBC, one of the biggest costs is to hire a coach – preferably a ‘famous’ one,” he says. Furthermore, training for the WBC is also time intensive, which can present an opportunity cost for some competitors.

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Coaching Equipment Travel Training 133

Bar and Restaurant Coach

MARCH 2, 2020

The HR department has many jobs: hiring the right people, making sure that employees are treated in accordance with the company’s ethics, code of conduct, and culture statements. Glassdoor: The average US company will spend 52 days and $4,000 to hire for a position. The Actual Cost of Hiring a New Employee. Management Focus.

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Coaching Employee Relations Hiring Document 97

Rocket Fuel

APRIL 5, 2022

The BEST recipe for QSR success includes: Hiring the right people. Thoughtful, thorough training. Hiring the right people. You’re probably not going to be the one conducting the majority of your interviews, so to make sure you’re hiring the right people , take a look at your interviewers. Enforcing the rules.

Coaching 52

Coaching Cash Management Hiring Training 52

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 325

Fine Dining Dine-in Front of House Design 325

Perfect Daily Grind

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

To discuss this issue further, I spoke with Eduardo Choza, Director of Coffee at Mayorga Coffee , Jenny Borrego, barista trainer at Degas Café , and founder of Alquimia Coffee Company and World Coffee Championship coach , Federico Bolanos. He has also trained 15 national Barista Championship winners from around the world.

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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 189

360Training

JULY 23, 2020

Training and Development: You Need Both. When you train your employees, you teach them how to follow specific procedures. Training and development can be the keys to higher staff retention, higher customer satisfaction, and better food safety. Training Reduces Management Turnover. How to hire and onboard new employees.

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Coaching Leadership Food Safety Kitchen Safety 78

Crunchtime

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

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? From the moment a new employee is hired, you have an opportunity to teach them about leadership, giving rising stars opportunities to learn management skills before you need to promote them.

Leadership 78

Leadership Employee Relations Training Coaching 78

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 197