When one door closes
When an employee leaves, it's rarely a pleasant experience. Terminations are difficult, time consuming and intrusive on an already busy day. Even with an amicable parting, you're still left with a pile of papers and a job to fill.
No raise in 2012? Chew on this.
If you didn’t get a raise last year, ask the boss why you were excluded from what People Report says was the vast majority of salaried restaurant employees who got a bump in base pay during 2012. At the very least, it may help your chances in 2013, when salaries are expected by the human-resources research company to rise by an average of 2.7 percent.
Running a foodservice operation is not a simple prospect. In addition to producing quality food and maintaining a high level of service, owners and GMs are faced with a multitude of responsibilities: payroll & human resources, taxes, state, federal and local mandates, technology, marketing, and accounting to name a few.