Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Restaurants are filling up again, but hiring and retaining employees in the midst of a national workforce shake-up remains an uphill battle. With staff in short supply as millions of Americans continue to quit their jobs, restaurants looking to ramp up hiring for the busy season are faced with an ultra-competitive hiring market.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 30, 2024

AI Will Mitigate Restaurant Hiring Challenges While customer-facing AI will capture headlines both for its successes and foibles, restaurants in 2025 would do well to start using AI to automate noncustomer interactions and processes. Here are two places where I predict AI will have a majori mpact in the restaurant industry in the new year.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 29, 2021

Hiring a security firm can help protect your restaurant from disgruntled customers and crime, but which firm do you hire and what should you look for in a security team? Legally licensed security firms ensure that you’re hiring a professional, capable of protecting your property and patrons. Security Firm Licensing.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Managers and owners must develop strategic hiring plans through the end of 2022 and into 2023 to protect staff from long hours and burnout. However, limited budgets and resources necessitate thoughtful hiring decisions in order to reduce wasted time and costs on advertising positions or training new hires. How to avoid.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Hiring remains a significant challenge for the restaurant industry. Hiring is difficult enough. Hourly hiring is traditionally a complicated process – requiring applicants to create accounts, navigate clunky job websites, and fill out paperwork. People want a simple, straightforward process to getting hired.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 22, 2022

Hiring teams are facing a specific challenge this summer–quickly hiring the top seasonal talent before someone else does. Below are four tips to add to your seasonal hiring toolkit. ” Hire Faster. But how do you actually hire faster? Make Sure You’re Engaging on a Phone Screen.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

Restaurants had difficulty hiring and retaining staff, which led to more interest in automating processes. Restaurants have had to rethink hiring, wages, and benefits to attract and retain talent. We were a sourcing and hiring platform for restaurants. Hiring for restaurants was a challenge to say the least. more an hour.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 23, 2022

Chances are, you've heard the old adage of hire slow, fire fast. When you are short staffed, it feels like hurrying to hire could solve all ills, yet this could spell disaster for the rest of your team. Learn more about why it makes sense to hire and fire at the correct pace in the visual deep dive below:

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

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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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 17, 2023

The hiring shortage and the fallout from "The Great Resignation" that saw 47 million U.S. Another way technology can boost tipping is by turning even new hires into the knowledgeable servers guests love. workers quit their jobs in 2021 is still in full swing, particularly in restaurants.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

So what can they do to compete for talent, hire effectively and retain staff in the long-term? "As the hiring landscape has evolved over the past few years, we found that job seekers and employers have often been relying on misinformation as well as outdated compensation data," Cheng said. "To

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 31, 2024

In today's bustling restaurant industry, where every detail matters, technology has become an indispensable tool – especially in hiring and staffing. Crafting the Perfect Job Ad When it comes to hiring for restaurant positions, there's a significant difference between a job description and a job ad.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 15, 2024

That means if every job seeker were hired, a million positions would remain unfilled. According to the most recent Department of Labor report, there are more than 8.2 million job openings in the United States, yet only about 7.2 million unemployed workers are seeking to fill these roles.

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EATER

MARCH 14, 2025

Hiring is a nightmare, Caroline Styne, co-founder of Lucques Group in Los Angeles, told AP in June 2021. A report published in February by the James Beard Foundation found that a majority of independent restaurant owners cited difficulty hiring and retaining high-quality staff as among their primary concerns.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

When It Goes Wrong: Real-World ICE Enforcement Cases Case #1: Chuy’s Mesquite Broiler – A Costly Mistake Chuy’s Mesquite Broiler , a restaurant chain in Arizona and California, came onto ICE’s radar in 2011 for knowingly hiring undocumented workers. military veteran whose documentation was questioned.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Independent contractors usually have greater flexibility, provide their own tools, and are often hired for specific projects or short-term engagements. The worker performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Finding a well-rounded bar manager can be the determining factor in the success of your business. They play a big role in overseeing your inventory and attending to customer complaints. They also bring creative ideas to the table, such as improving the drink menu and coming up with new events and promotions to drive sales.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Focus on: Hiring for Culture Fit : Seek candidates who align with your restaurant’s values by emphasizing character and attitude over experience when interviewing. Bonus Tip : Set a recurring calendar reminder to conduct quarterly payroll audits in 2025 so you can catch discrepancies even earlier.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

And they are hiring staff they should not, assuming any warm body is better than no bodies. During this hiring frenzy, restaurants need to consider: Temporary sign-on or retention bonuses, and temporary pay raises, to better compete. These should be offered to new hires, but also to your existing workers. Bring them back.

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Restaurant Business

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The operations expert is the casual-dining seafood chain’s third leadership hire in as many weeks as it embarks on its post-bankruptcy comeback.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2021

Two-thirds of new hires signing up for DailyPay. Now more people are back to work and everyone is hiring. That’s why being creative and flexible has been a key mindset for hiring.” ” Being creative and flexible has been a key mindset for hiring. People were in between jobs or suddenly out of work.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 11, 2022

In today’s market, it seems that just about every restaurant is hiring. In fact, three out of five restaurant hiring managers say their biggest challenge is no-shows at interviews. While screening candidates takes time, hiring software makes it easier. Interview (and Hire) Fast. Reduce No-Shows.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Scalability: During peak hours or seasons, digital hosts can easily scale to handle increased call volumes with concurrent call capability without additional hiring Even for a smaller operation, the constant interruptions by the phone can create additional challenges on employees, especially if they are understaffed since Covid.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 2, 2025

This operational simplicity makes training new hires faster and allows teams to deliver a consistent product every time. Hiring, training and retaining employees continues to be an uphill battle, particularly in an industry with historically high turnover. At Cannoli Kitchen Pizza, we hire work ethic over experience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Wage changes notwithstanding, the industry is seeing a continued evolution toward more tech-enabled management and optimization tools for worker staffing, scheduling, backfilling, and hiring all powered by the gig-economy (and "gig-trade" to an extent) and become less reliant on going the traditional hiring route.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 17, 2025

The reality is unless a operation has reached a critical mass to hire specific category buyers, there isn’t bandwidth for buyers purchasing from multiple categories to dedicate to every specific market. Size The first thought may be to hire the biggest, most known buying group. So let’s take this a step further.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

One of the easiest ways to reduce hiring friction is by streamlining the application and interview process. By embracing digital-first and flexible hiring solutions, restaurant owners and managers can improve candidate experience while filling roles faster.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Why hire food runners when Servi can handle the job without missing a beat? For example, once fully automated kitchens and robot servers are perfected, there will be little need for human staff in many restaurants. Why pay a human bartender when Tipsy can mix drinks faster, cheaper, and without breaks?

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 3, 2021

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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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 26, 2025

It is ILLEGAL for undocumented persons without permission to work in the US and it is illegal for employers to knowingly hire them. What will farms, food processing plants, hotels, and restaurants do if they are unable to hire an immigrant workforce. I am not here to agree or disagree, but to pose a question.

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