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Protecting Your Restaurant During the Pandemic When Employees Return from Vacation

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Designate an Official HR 'Point of Contact' Overseeing HR should never fall to “just any” employee. In addition, once disclosed to HR, an employer should also consider keeping an employee’s plans confidential. Keep Disclosures Confidential and Apply All Policies Consistently.

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Reduce Time Spent on Recruiting

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While in other industries it’s common to have a dedicated HR or recruiting team, in the restaurant business, general managers typically handle hiring and training as well, on their own. Most came up through the ranks, starting as a server or a cashier before eventually becoming a general manager. But their time is not unlimited.

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Don’t Let Your Restaurant Become a Victim of Cybercrime

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Just as owners and HR personnel put new hires through a background check, vendors and technology partners need to be put through similar evaluations. Is there a single server at risk? What about data backups kept on an off-site server or in the cloud? Put Partners Through a Background Check. Where is the data stored?

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‘Life Is All About Balance’

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Interviews range from baristas and servers to operations managers. In my direct emails to the staff, I always included my contact info as well as our leadership team and our HR director if they ever needed anything. “Our communication always included ways for our employees to get help if they needed.

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

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In California, for example, there is no longer a tipped minimum for servers, and minimum wage has jumped 33 percent from $11 per hour to $16.50. While the immediate impact of COVID-19 was devastating, the silver lining is that it forced operators, leaders, and HR professionals to rethink how they work, lead, and grow.

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Are You Ready for the Wave of Job Applicants?

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Implementing new solutions to the hiring process not only helps HR and talent acquisition teams but also improves the candidate’s overall experience. Unemployed servers, bartenders and hosts will apply for multiple roles, testing the limits of hiring manager’s capacity. Sound familiar?

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Could the Automat Revival Solve Restaurant Staffing Issues?

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The main concerns around robot chefs and servers are quality of service and maintenance. Chain restaurants with boxed ingredients for quick preparation, like Subway, are some of the most likely establishments to invest in robot chefs and servers for an all-on-one fast-food production line.

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