Embrace The Suck Blog
No more despairing over an understaffed restaurant. It's time to dust off your note-taking skills because we're diving into a four-step game plan to draw the crème de la crème to your restaurant, starting immediately.
If your restaurant mirrors many others in your local scene,...
If you’re like the majority of restaurants and bars in your market, you’ve been struggling to find staff.
Many operators are struggling to find any staff! Are they breathing? Can they form a coherent sentence? Yes? Hired!
The new hires stay for a few weeks but end up...
How has this year treated you and your restaurant? How has your quest to find staff been?
If you are like the majority of restaurants, it’s been a big challenge. Here’s the bad news, it’ll probably will not get much better in the coming year.
But don’t get all sad about...
Here you are. Middle of the year and things are in either one of two conditions:
A. You are rocking it beyond your wildest expectations!
B. You are already looking forward to next year, you just need to survive until then.
If you are in category A, congratulations—you may stop...
Who you allow on your team is one of the most important decisions you make as an owner or operator. You have to safely guard whom you allow to interact with your guests. Many owners and operators overlook this detail, and it can have a monumental impact on their business.
Jim Collins, the author...
Word on the street is there is a labor shortage for restaurants and bars. They call it the war for talent. If you really look closely, the true is that is really is a war WITH talent. As an industry we have held tight to outdated management techniques like carrots and sticks. They just...
