HR Solutions for Restaurants

Restaurants, cafes, diners and other fine food establishments have some inherent human resource problems, even in normal times.

Now, with the recent health crisis, restaurants are faced with new restrictions, rules and regulations, just to stay open.

Restaurant HR continues to be an issue. In addition to serving food and beverages, they must maintain expanded health and cleanliness standards, interface with the public and often have to handle complaints from customers, just to name a few.

PEO Owner Tom Natoli tells us: “We’ve been helping restaurants since we got into the PEO business. The co-employment model allows the owners to give themselves another layer of protection. In regards to payroll, we also help with the tips and associated credits. As for COVID, well we have staff staying on top of the latest requirements. We monitor this daily.”

Restaurant HR

Here are some risks and potential HR hazards food and beverage establishments are faced with:

  • Just staying open, and dealing with whatever the latest “guideline” the authorities put out
  • Cleanliness, hygiene and health standards, which seem to change daily
  • Hiring and retaining kitchen staff
  • Hiring and retaining servers and support staff
  • Payroll issues in a “tips” environment, and the TIPS credit
  • Increased exposure to employee claims and lawsuits
  • Increased exposure to customer claims and lawsuits
  • Potential alcohol liability
  • Issues associated with food and beverage distribution
  • Storage of valuable but very perishable inventory
  • Customer service, public interface and exposure

The TIPS Credit
We have discovered that many employers in the service industry that have Tips based payroll are not receiving all the TIPS credit they are entitled to. Recently, one of our PEOs helped a local restaurant chain retrieve over $17,000 in TIPS credit from the three previous three years. Can you afford to ignore that?

Restaurant Specific Problems Require Specific Experience
Several EmployerNomics agents have experience in this field and are acquainted with the challenges faced. Our restaurant program presents the client with a qualified selection of PEOs and other HR providers who specialize in alleviating these problems.

Free HR Consultation

If you would like a free consultation with our HR Medics please call us at 407-490-2468. Remember, we can’t help if you don’t call.