Staffing

Cooks, servers, bartenders hardest positions to fill

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August 26, 2021

The top three jobs restaurants are striving to fill are servers, cooks/line cooks and bartenders, with cooks topping the list, accorind to a 7shifts report.

Twenty-six percent of restaurants are looking for cooks and line cooks, 17% are trying to hire servers and 7% looking for bartenders, according to a press release on the report data. The hardest positions for fill for restaurants are cooks and line cooks, managers and bartenders. Just 23% of cooks and line cooks postings have applications, 37% of manager postings have applications and 56% of bartenders postings have applications.

In the report 7shift offers these tips for hiring:

• Create job postings quickly: Build and create job postings in just a few minutes with a simple job post builder.
• Get more information on candidates: Add custom questions to job postings, which candidates will be required to answer.
• Get your team's help with hiring: Share job posting links directly with your staff and social media to source more candidates from referrals.
• Never miss an applicant: Enable email notifications for new applicants so you can quickly act on new applicants and get them hired quickly.

The report included data from over 18,000 restaurant locations and 500,000 restaurant employees worldwide, with 90%-plus from North America. Restaurant jobs data of more than 2,400 postings were taken from approximately 1,800 restaurants across North America, as well as Canada and the U.S. from June 1 to August 22.