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. According to the National Restaurant Association, 70 percent of operators report not having enough employees to meet customer demand, and three out of four say they will commit more resources to employee recruitment and retention. Hiring is difficult enough.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 11, 2021

For example, IHOP is planning to hire 10,000 new workers in the coming months to prepare for, “…a restaurant renaissance on the horizon.” If restaurants want to stand out in the competition for talent, they must adapt their hourly hiring practices. The Problem with Hourly Hiring. Provide Mobile Access.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 8, 2023

Below is an excerpt of " How to Hire: The Essential Guide to Recruit & Retain the Right People " by Clint Smith, Founder and CEO of CareerPlug. He wrote the book to give owners and operators a playbook to achieve hiring success. The #1 recruiting strategy is retention. You need to help them build a career.

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Embrace the Suck

JANUARY 20, 2021

The new hires stay for a few weeks but end up leaving, and the cycle of anxiety begins again. We’re the result of years of poor management, treating staff as a line item and not as an asset. Step 2: Be Actively Recruiting. What’s the biggest difference between job ads and recruiting? Are they breathing?

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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. Employees actually do want signs of long-term career prospects and manager recognition, such as promotions.

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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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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Not surprising, as it has been reported on consistently, recruiting employees is the top concern for restaurants in fall of 2021, after Coronavirus shook up our economies and our definitions of success. Recruiting employees was the top concern in 2019 , before the COVID-19 pandemic rocked the restaurant world. Surprising? Even better?

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

However, the typical increase in consumers wanting to dine out during the holiday season – not to mention the continued demand for take-away and delivery services – could disrupt this balance, even as businesses attempt to bolster their staff with seasonal hires. This influx of new staff is a major stressor in itself.

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ChowNow

MARCH 14, 2025

In this guide, youre going to learn: The key components of effective restaurant operations management Common challenges restaurant owners face (and how to solve them) Best practices to run a more efficient and profitable restaurant Lets explore what it takes to manage restaurant operations like a pro.

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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. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has transformed the recruitment process, offering a new level of efficiency and automation.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

As the hospitality industry gears up for the influx of holiday diners, making the right hires becomes especially crucial in maintaining a high quality of service. To master the process, consider these tips to recruit and retain long-term employees. Never hire someone in the name of urgency.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

That led to an employee shortage, especially for high-quality and experienced management positions. Whether it's adjusting to shifting customer demands, offering multiple ordering channels, or managing disruptions in supply chains and staffing, technology has become more important than ever. per hour difference.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 12, 2021

Each day, I read news stories about the restaurant industry hiring crisis, with talent demanding higher wages, and many offering competitive signing bonuses in order to attract employees. Across my restaurants, we had to come up with new strategies to recruit and retain employees.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 27, 2024

Summer is prime hiring time for restaurants. Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine reached out to Jennifer Mathew, senior manager of talent acquisition and strategy on the role technology plays in hiring and retention. Complicated processes are one of the worst issues you can have in restaurant talent management.

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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. Each year, we hear from restaurant general managers how frustrated they are about staff jumping to retail jobs over the holidays. These should be offered to new hires, but also to your existing workers. Bring them back.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This is the frothy backdrop against which restaurant HR professionals are working to recruit, cultivate and retain the right talent. The first is hiring and personnel practices, with a greater emphasis on internally hiring and upskilling. Hiring and personnel practices are likely to evolve in two ways.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

What can restaurant owners and managers do to better engage workers and increase retention in the long run? Often, this leads to rushed, poor communication between managers and employees, which in turn creates frustration among staff and even disgruntlement.

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7 Shifts

JULY 29, 2020

Restaurant recruiting during the COVID-19 pandemic can be advantageous for restaurants because so much restaurant talent is looking for work. Restaurants must be picky, however, to ensure that new hires are good fits for the long term and that they’ll work safely alongside existing staff. What PPE will you provide?

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Hiring top talent can be a daunting task for any organization. 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.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2021

While staffing has always topped the list of restaurant owner/manager pain points, it now seems to be at crisis proportions. Instead of belaboring the issue, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine went to the experts for some solutions. Two-thirds of new hires signing up for DailyPay.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The seemingly never-ending battle to attract workers to open jobs is being driven by an overall smaller industry labor pool stemming from limitations in how companies are competing for and ultimately recruiting workers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 4, 2020

With restaurants opening back up, hiring managers will need to find applicants to quickly fill positions. Instead of not having enough talent, hiring managers will now need to sift through hundreds if not thousands of job applicants quickly and efficiently to get their businesses back up and running.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

As a restaurant manager or operator, you are the driving force in productivity – leading your staff and keeping customers happy. However, productivity is more easily trained than managed. Many restaurant operators juggle multiple locations, and adding managers adds another link in the chain of command to manage.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 28, 2020

As business owners begin the process of hiring (or, in some cases, re-hiring) employees for their restaurants, bars, hotels, resorts and food services companies, here are five things to focus on: All Hands on Deck. Be creative when it comes to how to recruit, hire and retain employees. Leave it to the Professionals.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Looking for answers, I polled my team of professional recruiting partners for these industries. managers over the coming decade, pre-pandemic. My advice to beleaguered hiring managers is to consider the following points. These include lodging, restaurants, travel, manufacturing and construction, to name a few.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Restaurant owners are being forced to find a way to make it through winter with vastly reduced revenue, and many operators are scrambling to reallocate budgets and manage staffing to survive COVID-19. With slow seasons also comes the need to navigate seasonal layoffs and the task of hiring all the best people back the next season.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

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.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 22, 2022

Right now, the restaurant industry has experienced rapid employee turnover and staffing shortages, which is impacting how recruiters are bringing on new talent for food service roles. Recruiters today must stay nimble in their communication approach with candidates to remain competitive in attracting top talent. Intelligent Messaging.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 7, 2024

Employers are now expected to offer more than just a salary increase: Redefining the nature of work through flexible schedules, job sharing and in-house management pools has become essential. Implement management training programs for young talent to help fill future skill gaps and ensure the continuity of leadership. The bottom line?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 19, 2021

From kitchen staff to waitstaff and janitors to managers, the industry is faced with one of the tightest labor markets in years amid an economic recovery from one of the worst crises in living memory. First, the amount of time managers spend recruiting can have a distracting domino effect on food service operations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 15, 2024

One smart idea is investing in software that can schedule employees’ working hours, manage HR processes, prepare payroll, analyze labor data, and monitor employee attendance. These expenses include money spent on recruiting, hiring, and training new staff, and lost productivity.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 3, 2021

These tools offer employees an easy and secure way to manage their wages, even if they don’t have bank accounts. Educate and Engage: Offer financial literacy education to help staffers understand and use skills that include budgeting, managing money, paying off debt and investing. Host a hiring party : Make recruiting memorable.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

In a job seekers market, if we don’t alter our approach to sourcing, recruiting, and hiring, we'll be left with open jobs and few applicants to fill them. You never know, they may be interested and were just unaware that you were hiring. Streamline Your Hiring Process. Prepare to Pay Higher Wages. Hang in there!

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Front-of-house staff can be hard to recruit, are less tenured, and have high turnover. ” Automating repetitive host tasks enables a restaurant to operate with a smaller staff and help mitigate labor costs, decreasing the need to hire as many employees and freeing up resources to raise wages for current employees.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Finding the right general manager (GM) can be a challenging task, yet businesses that view investing in employees as an unnecessary expense often pay for it down the road. Ben Brock, restaurant operator and partner with 4Top Hospitality states, “It all starts with general managers. They set the bar for everyone else.

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