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Best practices for improving recruitment, retention and training

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5 workforce takeaways from the 2019 National Restaurant Association Show

Restaurant operators had a lot to say about finding, training and retaining employees at this year’s National Restaurant Association Show.

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Driving employee engagement with mobile training

In the wake of labor shortages and rising labor costs, employee engagement is becoming one of the most important pieces to the puzzle for success—particularly for the restaurant industry, which contin...

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Educational foundation efforts target labor shortage

Sponsored content from our partner The National Restaurant Association® on May 15, 2019

Responding to the current shortage of skilled employees, the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (NRAEF) has pledged to train and prepare more than 370,000 people for foodservice jobs and careers over the next five years.

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Who wants to work in restaurants? These 400 eager teens

By Peter Romeo on May 13, 2019

The national ProStart competition gives aspiring industry stars a chance to get their careers rolling.

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Winners of the 2019 National ProStart Invitational competition

By Peter Romeo on May 13, 2019

Here are the teams that finished tops last week in the 50-state competition.

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Chain restaurant staff vacancies soar to historic level, study finds

By Peter Romeo on May 10, 2019

More than a third operated with higher vacancies during Q1.

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Are restaurants required to allow smoke breaks for staff?

By Jonathan Deutsch, Ph.D. on May 09, 2019

Though once part of employee culture in many restaurants, and still a courtesy in some, smoke breaks aren't a legal requirement, Advice Guy says.

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Where to draw the line on employee theft in restaurants

By Jonathan Deutsch, Ph.D. on May 02, 2019

There's a difference between rounding up on a timesheet and stealing from a customer, Advice Guy says.

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Hopdoddy partners with online culinary school

By Heather Lalley on Apr. 30, 2019

Through the Escoffier program, the better-burger chain’s employees will be able to earn culinary degrees while working full time.

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Restaurants find themselves unwitting agents of the measles outbreak

By Peter Romeo on Apr. 25, 2019

Reports of new cases routinely cite eating places as the source of the contamination, but an alarm has yet to sound.

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