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Restaurant Recruiting During and After COVID-19

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Restaurant recruiting during the COVID-19 pandemic can be advantageous for restaurants because so much restaurant talent is looking for work. Here’s how to implement those restaurant recruitment changes to keep your current staff safe and give job candidates peace of mind. Will any of the hiring or training be conducted remotely?

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What can we learn from "Waitmares"?

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We’re taking a deep dive into waitmares to explain why they’re bad, what the restaurant industry can learn from them, and how you can reduce your front-of-house (FOH) team’s work anxiety to boost engagement—and sweet dreams. When employee engagement and wellbeing wane, job performance, customer happiness, and the bottom line suffer.

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2022 Trends: Meeting Challenges and Industry Evolution

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These commercial kitchens, without any traditional FOH space or staff, are making it easier to streamline delivery. At the same time, competition for labor has risen, making it more difficult than ever to recruit, train and retain employees. To meet this evolution, restaurant operators are investing in new and reimagined spaces.

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Restaurant Operations Overview: What You Need to Know

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For prep, cooks would restock their work stations and FOH staff might prep tables and utensils for the first dinner guests. Recruiting, hiring, onboarding, scheduling, engaging, paying, and losing employees all surface up into restaurant HR management. Human Resources Management. The turnover rates in restaurants are infamously high.

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How To Create a Fair Holiday Work Schedule For Restaurants

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Regardless of if these new hires are temporary or permanent,part-time or full-time, or BOH or FOH , they should be hired promptly and confidently. Your employees love working at your restaurant - so why not recruit them to get more help finding new employees? Holiday Referral Sprints.

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Restaurant Staff Training 101

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Front-of-house (FOH) staff, like servers and hosts, will need customer service training, upselling techniques, and communication skills. 7shifts has developed its own hiring and training course for restaurants to help you with the entire recruitment and onboarding process.

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Technology Can Help Restaurants During ‘The Great Resignation’

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The labor crisis has not been limited to just FOH or BOH operations staff. These are just a few examples of how the latest in tech can equip marketers with leading guest intelligence and data analytics without the need to recruit or hire data scientists in a hugely competitive job market.