Are you an independent restaurant group with 1 or 2 locations (up to 99 staff members) that is looking for new ways to engage with your staff, increase retention and enhance your workplace culture?
We're excited to report that we've received funding for a tangible Restaurant Culture Shift Program. We've read the existing research on the challenges with labour shortage and recruitment and we know that many operators need hands-on help to introduce new ideas and take their business to the next step. Over the next 18 months, we're going to be working with 95 businesses one-on-one to develop pathways to successful teams and sustainable careers.
Right now, Chefs' Table Society is looking for 10 businesses to participate in the initial
assessments of this project, which is funded by B.C.’s Sector Labour Market Partnership Program. The form will take about 15 minutes to complete. On the back end, our team will review your forms and then we'll come and visit your business. Over a month, we'll invest several hours back into your business to help develop a clear and concise dashboard for innovation in your workplace culture.
This dashboard will offer you tangible ideas that can help you engage with your team in new ways and provide you with tools that will help streamline your operations. We've engaged some great minds in the business to help develop the tools that target recruiting, retention, staff development, equity, diversity and inclusion AND systems changes.
If you join us at this point of the project, we'll keep you informed as the project develops and we'll share new ideas as they develop through our extensive restaurant engagement.
Can you join us on this journey to improve restaurant workplace culture?
Start by filling in the restaurant assessment form today
or email our executive director Shawna Gardham (ed@chefstablesociety.com) for more info!
“Through this partnership, we are working to strengthen the restaurant industry, which has been struggling since the pandemic,” said Selina Robinson, Minister of Post Secondary Education and Future Skills. “We are examining industry-wide solutions to solve workforce challenges in restaurants, and support recruitment and retention for workers and employers in the restaurant industry across B.C. The innovative ideas that come from this pilot project will give employers and workers the tools they need to thrive in the growing restaurant industry in the province.”
Click here to read more about this program in the
B.C. Ministry of Post Secondary Education and Future Skills press release.
