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

Modern Restaurant Management

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. Bonus Tip : Create a simple FAQ document to address common employee questions about coverage options.

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Restaurant Workforce Research: Reflecting on 2024 and Optimizing for 2025

Modern Restaurant Management

After millions left the industry in 2020, restaurants responded by increasing wages and leaning into incentives to attract employees back. To help restaurant operators better understand what employees want and need, close to 1,000 restaurant managers were surveyed regarding compensation, technology use, retention tactics, and more.

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Restaurant Recruiting During and After COVID-19

7 Shifts

According to data from 350,000+ restaurants that use 7shifts, while overall shifts being scheduled are still sitting 24% below pre-COVID levels, shifts for delivery-related roles have increased 38%. Restaurant recruiting during the COVID-19 pandemic can be advantageous for restaurants because so much restaurant talent is looking for work.

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THE IMPORTANT THINGS I LEARNED IN THE KITCHEN

Culinary Cues

Here is one excerpt from his journal of observations: Service industry work develops the soft skills recruiters talk about on LinkedIn discipline, promptness, the ability to absorb criticism, and most important, how to read people like a book. You may have some areas of weakness just like everyone else.

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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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Five Common Seasonal Hiring Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Modern Restaurant Management

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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High-Volume Holiday Recruiting Strategies

Modern Restaurant Management

However, for restaurants dealing with high-volume recruitment needs, the challenge is even greater. Tight timelines : First, hiring teams often encounter tight timelines when managing high-volume recruitment. Maintaining company reputation : Maintaining a strong employer brand becomes crucial in high-volume recruiting.