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Staffing Issues Every Restaurant Owner Should Focus on Post-Pandemic

Modern Restaurant Management

The hospitality industry is the third largest employer in the United States (behind healthcare and government.) Be creative when it comes to how to recruit, hire and retain employees. It’s a workforce of over 15 million people that all contribute to our country’s economy and culture in a major way.

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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. A mobile employee experience has now become table stakes in seamlessly recruiting, onboarding, training and managing staff. Embracing Digital Transformation.

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Turning Restaurant Staffing Challenges Into Opportunities

Modern Restaurant Management

And with inflation and wage growth driving a majority of the country’s economic discussions, this reality will add to the pressures on restaurant owners and managers to find ways to recruit and retain workers. But there is more to staff recruitment and retention than bottom line salary alone.

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Can Concierge Medical Services Work in the Restaurant Sector?  

Modern Restaurant Management

For several years we have been considering the viability of high touch healthcare concierge programs in the restaurant space. As restaurants continue to struggle with staffing recruitment and retention, enhancing benefit programs can be one piece of the response.

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Our Wage Models are Broken

7 Shifts

There are a variety of ways restaurants are re-thinking wages, including hospitality-included models, healthcare surcharges, and profit-sharing. This reduces turnover, lowers recruitment and training costs, and substantially improves the quality of the workforce and guest experience.

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Experts Weigh In: What Are Key Challenges Restaurants Will Face in 2022?

Modern Restaurant Management

It has affected restaurant operators on both ends as they are challenged with retaining and recruiting staff and serving customers with limited resources. Skyrocketing labor cost and a much more transient workforce require operators to focus on recruitment, efficiency and retention more than ever.

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CIVILITY LOST

Culinary Cues

People want to believe in something and someone, there are far more loyal followers than civil leaders, so the one who speaks the loudest, with authority, attracts the largest number of followers – new recruits for the silo. Doing your job as you should is an act of civility; failure to do so is just short of anarchy.

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