Published September 6, 2016
Creating defined work hours and not blurring the boundary between home and work life is important to minimising stress at work. For food service directors, getting the work-life balance right is especially hard at traditionally busy times such as during the holidays when extra catering demands can coincide with employees wanting to request time off. To cope, it’s important to ensure you aren’t left short-staffed and over worked, while making it an equal priority to be able to turn off the career and take care of yourself after hours.
Key Takeaways:
- Stress in the workplace carries into personal life in over 75% of the population.
- During holiday seasons, workplace stress is more likely to increase.
- To reduce stress carrying over into personal life, eliminate work thoughts at a certain time each day, to focus on you.
“”Food service directors spend a lot of time taking care of other people, whether it’s K-12 students who aren’t always eating enough at home, malnourished patients back for return visits or employees squabbling among themselves.””
http://www.foodservicedirector.com/managing-your-business/managing-staff/articles/how-reduce-stress-work-not-take-it-home
Published September 6, 2016
It has recently been announced that hospitality businesses have been warned by the government due to the fact that they are not paying their employees by the national minimum wage. The government has also recently stated that it will be cracking down on every single business that is not following its regulations for wage.
Hospitality warned of consequences of not paying National Minimum Wage
Published September 6, 2016
What the heck is a chork? Lisa Jennings, in Reporter’s Notebook blogs about the new utensil that is generating quite a buzz in the twittersphere. Company Panda Express is currently generating consumer insight to see if it would be successful to launch a “spork” type utensil for Asian cuisine.
Although there are some similar products out there, this idea has not yet become huge or mainstream so Panda Express could capitalize on it.
America: Meet the chork
Published September 6, 2016
The article talks about the changes that can happen within big corporate companies. Some of these changes including executive replacements. Some of the things talked about in the article also included some of the financial changes that could occur with the replacement of an executive within a company whether those changes ended up being good changes or bad changes.
Key Takeaways:
- Four of the biggest restaurant companies in the world — McDonald’s Corp., Darden Restaurants Inc., Yum! Brands Inc. and The Wendy’s Co. — have replaced their CEOs in the past two years.
- it hardly seems coincidental that all of these moves have come during an ugly summer in which the industry’s sales have fallen off a cliff.
- In some of the cases, however, the CEO changes also came along with indications from the companies’ boards of a change in philosophy.
“Median tenure at the top of S&P 500 companies is just six years, according to Equilar, even after a substantial increase over the past decade.”
http://nrn.com/blog/sales-start-fall-so-go-restaurant-ceos
How to reduce stress at work—and not take it home
Creating defined work hours and not blurring the boundary between home and work life is important to minimising stress at work. For food service directors, getting the work-life balance right is especially hard at traditionally busy times such as during the holidays when extra catering demands can coincide with employees wanting to request time off. To cope, it’s important to ensure you aren’t left short-staffed and over worked, while making it an equal priority to be able to turn off the career and take care of yourself after hours.
Key Takeaways:
“”Food service directors spend a lot of time taking care of other people, whether it’s K-12 students who aren’t always eating enough at home, malnourished patients back for return visits or employees squabbling among themselves.””
http://www.foodservicedirector.com/managing-your-business/managing-staff/articles/how-reduce-stress-work-not-take-it-home
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