3 Action Ideas To Make Your Restaurant Staff Happy To Work For You
These are hard times. Tough economic times for businesses, hard times for restaurants. But even so, this is no excuse not to invest some time and money on your restaurant staff. Take it from me. When a person loves his work, he works harder and provides better service to customers. The customers will love and remember the experience and keep coming back. It’s a snowball that began all the way back with a single, happy server.
Here are three ways to invest in your restaurant staff.
1. Recognize their efforts
Are you familiar with The One Minute Manager? It’s a popular book on business management, and one of its teachings is One Minute Praisings. In other words, praise your restaurant staff as soon as you catch him or her doing something right. Recognize his or her efforts. Salary isn’t everything. There is a special feeling of contentment when your boss at work commends you for a job well done.2. Stir friendly competition by rewarding your staff
Nothing motivates a bored staff better than a little friendly competition. Most people are willing to work when they’re gunning for something in the long run.The trick is to stay away from clichés like “Employee of the Month”. Who cares if you’re employee of the month? Instead you should stick to basic and concrete facts, such as the employee who made the most sales, the employee with the least absences, etc.
3. Get together once in a while
Call it a team building event, [insert restaurant name here] Employee’s Day, etc. Do this at least once a year with your restaurant staff to help further strengthen the bond with employees and yourself, the restaurant owner. Working every single day can be very stressful. You should know that. So planning this kind of event once in a while is a great way to say “Thank You” to your hardworking staff.
Sometimes we have too many problems coming in the front door all at once that we forget the most important thing that holds a successful company together – satisfied employees. So invest in your restaurant staff. Make them happy. You won’t be disappointed.
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