What “Keeping Candidates Warm” Looks Like

What “Keeping Candidates Warm” Looks Like

For independent restaurants, hiring can feel like a never-ending treadmill Open roles, turnover, and constant rehiring drain time, energy, and budget. Strong candidates are often lost not because of a lack of care, but because no one clearly owns the space between...
Keeping Candidates Warm Is Retention Work (Yes, Really)

Keeping Candidates Warm Is Retention Work (Yes, Really)

Hiring Doesn’t Start on Day One Independent restaurants are operating in a tough reality: high turnover, limited talent, and not enough hours in the day. Here’s the quiet part many teams miss: a lot of what we call “turnover” starts before day one. In food service,...