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Nine Critical HR and Payroll Steps to Prepare Your Restaurant for 2025

Modern Restaurant Management

A new year is creeping up on us again, bringing fresh opportunities—and challenges—for restaurant operators. Update Your Employee Handbook Your employee handbook sets the tone for your culture by establishing expectations and aligning your team toward a common goal and vision.

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Restaurant Workforce Research: Reflecting on 2024 and Optimizing for 2025

Modern Restaurant Management

Long after the restaurant industry felt the most significant impacts of the pandemic, echoes still reverberate in the form of workforce realities and operational challenges. After millions left the industry in 2020, restaurants responded by increasing wages and leaning into incentives to attract employees back.

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Restaurants Go Digital to Attract and Retain Talent

Modern Restaurant Management

To recruit new talent and alleviate strains on current staff, restaurant managers are looking for new ways to streamline their operations and enhance the employee experience. However, many have since discovered that digitizing their workforce operations empowers employees. Embracing Digital Transformation.

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Self-Ordering Kiosks: One Solution to the Current Labor Shortage

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With pandemic-related restrictions being eased and dine-in being allowed again, restaurant owners are in need of a lot of staff. In order to meet this massive shortfall, restaurants have had to up the ante on their recruitment drives. Digitizing the order process brings speed to a restaurant’s operations.

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Five Common Seasonal Hiring Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

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Despite a slowed holiday hiring season, there is still a demand to hire restaurant employees to keep up with the inevitable influx of folks who eat out more frequently around the holidays—in fact, 17 percent of restaurant leaders are still looking to hire workers. Mistake #1: Neglecting a season-specific hiring strategy. How to avoid.

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The Current Status of the Labor Shortage and What it Takes to Survive

Modern Restaurant Management

And businesses everywhere, particularly those that depend on lower-paying positions with long hours to operate, are feeling the squeeze. Is this a phenomenon purely related to COVID? Looking for answers, I polled my team of professional recruiting partners for these industries. There’s No Doubt the Jobs are There.

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A More Financially Stable Workforce Can Fuel Industry Recovery — Even in a Talent Crunch

Modern Restaurant Management

Recent restaurant closures, even temporary ones, help to underscore the importance of recruiting and retaining a staff. The vast majority of financially stable employees (87 percent) are likely to remain with their current employer for the next year, compared to only 58 percent of those who are financially unstable.