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Employee-Friendly Policies

Employee-Friendly Policies

Employee policies, whether they are written down in a handbook or implied through workplace culture, make a huge difference in your restaurant’s atmosphere. Your employees make up a huge part of your restaurant’s experience after all, through the service they provide,...

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Employee-Friendly Policies

Employee policies, whether they are written down in a handbook or implied through workplace culture, make a huge difference in your restaurant’s atmosphere. Your employees make up a huge part of your restaurant’s experience after all, through the service they provide,...

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Change Is Good for Restaurant Teams

Change Is Good for Restaurant Teams

In a restaurant environment -- and most any work environment -- work roles will change when teams begin to form. As the restaurant manager, it's your job to begin preparing for the inevitable resistance. It will start with the familiar complaint: “That’s not my job,”...

How to Integrate New Employees into Your Restaurant Team

How to Integrate New Employees into Your Restaurant Team

Your new server seems bright enough and she’s got more experience than most of the people on your team, so why not fly through training and get her out on the floor? Well, maybe because she’ll walk out the door if you do. Why? Because the more employees know, the less...

Be the Restaurant Employer of Choice

Be the Restaurant Employer of Choice

As the restaurant employment outlook changes, effective restaurant managers are once again looking at tapping into a non-traditional labor pool in order to staff their restaurants. So where will you turn and what kind of employee will you turn to? First, take a look...

Behavioral Interviewing

Behavioral Interviewing

Behaviors are formed over time through repetition. If an individual has done something in the past, they’re more likely to repeat it in the future. So when you're looking at a potential employee, their history can give you a good idea of what their future with the...

How to Solve Your Restaurant Staffing Challenges

How to Solve Your Restaurant Staffing Challenges

Whoever said “winning isn’t everything” never ran a restaurant. A drive down any street in America shows just how fierce the competition is in this industry. These days, it’s not just customers you’re competing for. You’re competing for quality employees, too....

The Key to Interviewing Success

The Key to Interviewing Success

Every applicant who sits across from you in an interview has potential. If you didn’t think that was true, you wouldn’t have invited them in to talk, right? Think of interviewing as opening gifts. Some may be impressively wrapped, but without much inside. Others might...

Orientation Sets the Stage for Success

Orientation Sets the Stage for Success

The way you treat your employees determines how they’ll treat your guests. This starts during your orientation program. New employees are typically the most attentive and open to new ideas during their first few weeks on the job, so make sure you make the most of that...

Stop Conflict Before It Starts

Stop Conflict Before It Starts

In the hustle and bustle of the restaurant business, conflict is part of the game. Conflict can happen within your team, with one of your employees, with a guest, or with a vendor. Conflict in the workplace isn’t always a bad thing. Productive conflict can lead to...

Restaurant Incentives, Rewards & Contests

Restaurant Incentives, Rewards & Contests

Performance is driven by behavior, and behavior is driven by four factors: communication, training, measurement, and rewards. Incentives and contests will do little to improve attitude, but they can work wonders to change or enhance behavior and therefore improve...

Improve Restaurant Hiring with Group Interviews

Improve Restaurant Hiring with Group Interviews

Restaurant hiring can be tough under any circumstances. When you have several positions to fill, such as with a new store opening or when several student employees are returning to school at the end of summer, it can be even more challenging. Group interviews, or open...

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