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Top Restaurant Hiring Tips

Modern Restaurant Management

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked hiring expert Sid Upadhyay, co-founder and CEO of Wizehire for his advice on best practices for hiring and retention. What do you see as key challenges of restaurant hiring right now? How do you teach how to hire?

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Five Years After COVID, the Restaurant Labor Market Has Yet to Recover

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Now, restaurant owners and chefs across the country say theyre still struggling to recruit and retain talent. Hiring is a nightmare, Caroline Styne, co-founder of Lucques Group in Los Angeles, told AP in June 2021. Its a crutch that award-winning chefs and restaurateurs now cant use in hiring because candidates know they can do better.

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Hire and Retain Better Restaurant Workers in 2023

Modern Restaurant Management

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. Cost of a Bad Hire The U.S.

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How to Increase Employee Productivity

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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. It’s important to educate your staff about the correlation between productivity and profit.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

Investing in teamwork, internal training, and career development—such as structured in-house wine education—creates a sense of belonging and shared growth. One of the easiest ways to reduce hiring friction is by streamlining the application and interview process.

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Order Up! Offer Financial-Based Incentives to Tackle Staffing Challenges 

Modern Restaurant Management

Educate and Engage: Offer financial literacy education to help staffers understand and use skills that include budgeting, managing money, paying off debt and investing. Host a hiring party : Make recruiting memorable. Taco Bell, for example, recently held hiring parties nationwide, an initiative in its fourth year.

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How Your Restaurant Can Tackle the Employee Shortage

Modern Restaurant Management

To do that you need to understand why employees are quitting and why hiring now is so difficult. This childcare dilemma is compounded by the fact that bars and restaurants are all hiring at the same time, effectively competing for a smaller labor pool than they were pre-pandemic. Another key will be to ensure smooth hiring processes.

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