Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Bonus Tip : Structure your handbook around the employee lifecycle, covering company culture and recruitment through performance management and termination to ensure a clear, easy-to-follow guide for every stage of the employee experience. Prepare for Labor Law Changes Stay ahead of—and compliant with—upcoming labor law changes.

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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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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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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. With that mission in mind, below you’ll find the four-step recruiting plan you need to build a high-performance team and succeed in 2020. Step 2: Be Actively Recruiting. How do you recruit actively? Are they breathing?

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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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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

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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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

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 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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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

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 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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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 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. What can restaurant operators do to attract and retain talent for the busy season ahead?

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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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EATER

MARCH 14, 2025

Now, restaurant owners and chefs across the country say theyre still struggling to recruit and retain talent. Hiring is a nightmare, Caroline Styne, co-founder of Lucques Group in Los Angeles, told AP in June 2021. Its a crutch that award-winning chefs and restaurateurs now cant use in hiring because candidates know they can do better.

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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

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

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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Looking for answers, I polled my team of professional recruiting partners for these industries. My advice to beleaguered hiring managers is to consider the following points. Identify your core values, align your current staff and hire the right people who reflect these values and help build that desired culture.

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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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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 7, 2024

The state of the market means that the many qualified candidates will likely receive multiple offers, making it imperative for employers to be proactive in their hiring processes and consider strategies such as sign-on bonuses to secure top talent. The bottom line?

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 10, 2021

The food and beverage industry is on a hiring frenzy. A recent study by The Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that, despite regular hiring since this spring, the food and beverage industry still remains 1.5 In order to meet this massive shortfall, restaurants have had to up the ante on their recruitment drives.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 15, 2024

These expenses include money spent on recruiting, hiring, and training new staff, and lost productivity. Train Employees Training increases service speed and instills multitasking skills in employees, maximizing productivity without needing to hire additional staff. percent compared to other industries’ rate of 4.9

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 3, 2021

Host a hiring party : Make recruiting memorable. Taco Bell, for example, recently held hiring parties nationwide, an initiative in its fourth year. The event took place in parking lots, outdoor patios and required applicants and hiring managers to wear masks and stay six feet apart. Ask current employees to help recruit.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 3, 2022

Put your marketing skills to work to recruit new talent and fill open job positions at your quick-service restaurant. Here are a few fresh ideas to improve recruitment. Direct mail is also an affordable method when it comes to hiring. The outbreak of the pandemic sent unemployment rates through the roof. Make a Video.

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