How To Hire Better Restaurant Staff

**A stronger restaurant hiring process can help you attract better applicants, reduce employee turnover, and build a team that does not depend on you for everything.** In this episode of the Restaurant Growth Accelerator podcast, Andrew Scott breaks down the restaurant “hiring funnel”, and shows you how to identify exactly where your recruitment process is failing. Instead of blaming staffing shortages, unreliable applicants, or the idea that “nobody wants to work anymore,” Andrew explains how other factors are influencing your ability to hire good staff. You’ll learn how to approach restaurant hiring like a marketing funnel - measuring each stage so you can fix the real bottleneck, instead of constantly starting the hiring process again. **In this episode, you’ll discover:** ✅The complete restaurant hiring funnel, from job listing to long-term employee ✅Why generic restaurant job titles struggle to attract attention ✅How to write job ads that make stronger candidates want to apply ✅Why the benefits you promote may not be what applicants actually value ✅How interview delays can cause you to lose candidates to competitors ✅What interview and hiring conversion rates you should monitor ✅What restaurant owners must document, train, measure, and reinforce ✅How better people systems give owners more freedom from daily operations **Key moments:** 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:00 Your Biggest Business Problem 00:04:00 The Spring Hiring Trap 00:07:35 Hiring Is A Funnel 00:10:40 Job Titles 00:14:20 Stop Repelling Good Applicants 00:17:40 The Apply Rate Benchmark 00:23:40 What Turnover Really Costs 00:26:40 Why Stars Go Average \- **✅Grab a copy of the hiring playbook✅** 👉https://hs.ownershifttraining.com/managerhiringtoolkit?el=podcast \- **✅About Us✅** The Restaurant Growth Accelerator Podcast is hosted by Andrew Scott - founder of OwnerShift Training. Andrew Scott successfully scaled his restaurant business to 4 locations while working a handful of hours each week. He’s since helped over 1,000 restaurant owners increase their sales, profits, and free time - and he’d love to help you too. **✅For Restaurant Owners✅** Interested in growing your restaurant business while working less? Book your free assessment call: 👉 Restaurant Assessment Call **✅Connect With Us✅** https://www.facebook.com/groups/multiunitempirebuilders/ https://www.instagram.com/andrewrichardscott https://ownershifttraining.com/?el=podcasthttps://ownershifttraining.com/