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Nine Critical HR and Payroll Steps to Prepare Your Restaurant for 2025

Modern Restaurant Management

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. Updating Labor Law Posters : Hang the latest posters in prominent employee areas.

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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. It’s important for restaurant hiring and training processes to reflect new COVID-19 safety measures. Will any of the hiring or training be conducted remotely? What PPE will you provide?

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Pandemic Reflections: What Lessons Has the Restaurant Industry Learned?, Part Two

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Investing in teamwork, internal training, and career development—such as structured in-house wine education—creates a sense of belonging and shared growth. While many companies still don’t offer health insurance, I have a number of clients offering health care through online medical services, such as.

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Prepared to Win the War on Talent? Four Trends for Restaurant Operators to Consider in 2022

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This is the frothy backdrop against which restaurant HR professionals are working to recruit, cultivate and retain the right talent. Additionally, skills sometimes considered secondary to restaurant roles are much more likely to be valuable in post-COVID recruiting. In short, “Why should anyone want to work for us?

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Staying on Top of FDD Requirements for Risk and Insurance

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The pressures extend beyond balancing higher costs in an inflationary environment or the never-ending challenge of finding, training and keeping good staff. What may be overlooked within it are risk and insurance issues. Risk and insurance should be top on the list. And there’s a lot of value to that.

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Restaurant Staffing Crisis Solutions: Experts Weigh In

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.” The $15 minimum wage is a myth – most restaurants are having to pay close to that now, Her longer-term predictions include: Operators are leaving “small” menus developed for delivery in place in order to cut down on the complexity of orders and training required. 200 online orders a month with one to two people.

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Despite Improved 2024 Outlook, Labor, and Other Risks May Drag Restaurants Down

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Another growing risk: nuclear verdicts over dram shop law violations, driving up the costs of liquor liability insurance. Beyond recruiting, many employers are responding to the tight labor market by sharpening their focus on the kind of employee experience they’re providing. Conflict resolution training is also a must.

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