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Topic	How did restaurants reject applicants before the internet?
Gremlynn 11/14/23 6:05:39 AM #43:	uberl33tpro posted... I know that they're not picky about who they hire. I know that even convicted felons can get jobs at restaurants. I know that now hiring signs are up and have been up at the same places for over a year now, which clearly and obvious means that they've been actively hiring the entire time. I've seen restaurants so desperate for help that they're operating at diminished capacity, much to the frustration of customers who walk in, can't get a seat and see a bunch of empty booths that are taped off. If someone can't get hired in this type of job market, then I honestly don't know what to say other than there's something clearly wrong with them. Ok, you appear to basing this from the outside looking in and not based on hands on knowledge of what goes on behind the scenes. So I'll give you some anecdotes of my own from the inside. Now hiring signs do not mean a place is actually hiring. It's common practice in high turnover environments to present as always hiring to have a steady stream of applications for when you inevitably do need to hire additional staff. Vast majority of those applications are never looked at because the place in question is not ACTUALLY hiring when it was submitted. At least in my experience, "diminished seating" is not a result of a lack of available staff, it's slashing labor budgets. An example. We have people available to to work lunch. But lunch we had a stretch of slow lunches, where having one server, one bartender, and two cooks put us over corporates ideal labor costs. So we stopped staffing a server, the bartender handles ALL front of house on their own. Business picks back up while we are still deliberately short staffing ourselves, service is poor, word spreads. Business declines and this is our new normal staffing to keep labor in line with sales, and we adjust and on occasion find ourselves unable to serve additional tables. We actually turn away most applicants because there aren't even enough hours to go around for the staff we do have. --- "Now, was that civilized? No, clearly not. Fun, but in no sense civilized." <cite>Gremlynn posted [p:977206276] in How did re... [t:80618118]...</cite> <quote>uberl33tpro posted... </cite><quote>I know that they're not picky about who they hire. I know that even convicted felons can get jobs at restaurants. I know that now hiring signs are up and have been up at the same places for over a year now, which clearly and obvious means that they've been actively hiring the entire time. I've seen restaurants so desperate for help that they're operating at diminished capacity, much to the frustration of customers who walk in, can't get a seat and see a bunch of empty booths that are taped off. If someone can't get hired in this type of job market, then I honestly don't know what to say other than there's something clearly wrong with them.</quote>Ok, you appear to basing this from the outside looking in and not based on hands on knowledge of what goes on behind the scenes. So I'll give you some anecdotes of my own from the inside.Now hiring signs do not mean a place is actually hiring. It's common practice in high turnover environments to present as always hiring to have a steady stream of applications for when you inevitably do need to hire additional staff. Vast majority of those applications are never looked at because the place in question is not ACTUALLY hiring when it was submitted.At least in my experience, "diminished seating" is not a result of a lack of available staff, it's slashing labor budgets. An example. We have people available to to work lunch. But lunch we had a stretch of slow lunches, where having one server, one bartender, and two cooks put us over corporates ideal labor costs. So we stopped staffing a server, the bartender handles ALL front of house on their own. Business picks back up while we are still deliberately short staffing ourselves, service is poor, word spreads. Business declines and this is our new normal staffing to keep labor in line with sales, and we adjust and on occasion find ourselves unable to serve additional tables. We actually turn away most applicants because there aren't even enough hours to go around for the staff we do have. --- "Now, was that civilized? No, clearly not. Fun, but in no sense civilized."</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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