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Will Work for Food – Who’s Hiring in Food Services?

Chief Executive Restaurant Recruiter — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:51:38 +0000

Article Title: Will Work for Food – Who’s Hiring in Food Services?
Author Byline: CareerAlley
Author Website: http://careeralley.com

Okay, maybe a little dramatic, but it did catch your eye. Today we will continue the “Targeted Search” with Food Services. Technically speaking, Food Services can include top restaurant staff to those working in fast food. Although some might disagree, the coverage will be broad for the purposes of today’s post. Rather than focusing on just one type of resource, there will be a mix.

Dixie Search Associates – Dixie Search is an international recruiting firm that specializes in all segments of Food, Beverages and Hospitality recruitment. Their main page gives an overview of the firm and lists a number of Domestic and International “Hot Searches” (such as Food Services Manager – NY). The bottom of the main page provides contact information. Click “Current Openings” at the top of the page to go to the opportunities page. This page is sorted by main category (Food Manufacturing, Supermarket, etc.). The left-hand side of the page explains the process. There is a Candidate Registration form at the bottom of the main opportunities page.
McDonald’s – Number 106 on the Fortune 500 list, there are a number of food services related careers available at McDonald’s. From Restaurant Manager to Crew Member to District Manager. The main career page has links to several success stories in the center of the page. Careers Search (search by job category), Restaurant Crew Opportunities (Crew, Management and Support Opportunities) and “Hamburger University” (McDonald’s Management Training Center) links are available on the left hand side of the page.
American Culinary Federation (ACF) – ACF is a professional organization dedicated to chefs and is an industry resource. Their career site provides registration (anonymous), Job Search, Personal Alerts and a Job seeker account which will allows management of your resumes and job search alerts. “View Jobs” links to the job seeker page where you can search by keyword, location or Job Type.
FoodandDrinkJobs.com – This is a dedicated search site for the food and beverage industry. The site has 664 registered employers (when I checked). Click on the “Candidate Home” tab to get started. Similar to the ACF site, you can post an anonymous resume, view jobs, create a job alert and create a free account to manage your resumes and job alerts. There were over 3,400 job opportunities when I checked the site, from Pizza Grill cook to Bakery Associate to Executive Chef. The search function allows for keyword search, location search or job type.

Good luck in your search.

Article courtesy of the Recruiting Blogswap, a content exchange service sponsored by CollegeRecruiter.com, a leading site for college students looking for internships and recent graduates searching for entry level jobs and other career opportunities.

Article courtesy of Carl Chapman - Founder CEC Search, LLC
© Copyright 2009 CEC Search, LLC | All rights reserved

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Friends don’t let friends get a degree in psychology!

Chief Executive Restaurant Recruiter — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:49:08 +0000

Article Title: Friends don’t let friends get a degree in psychology!
Author Byline: Medical Sales Recruiter
Author Website: http://www.phcconsulting.com/WordPress/2008/09/10/friends-dont-let-friends-get-a-degree-in-psychology/

All across America this time of year, college campuses are filling with new and returning students all looking for that magic piece of paper that will ensure their futures. All that effort and all those tuition fees…. You’d better make sure it’s worth it.

No offense to those with psychology degrees, but the most valuable college degrees now and in the future are much more science and technology-oriented: Engineering, Computers, Finance, and Science.

A List of Best College Degrees By Salary fills the top 5 with the engineering and computer science types, but #10 is Business Management, #11 is Marketing, and #13 is Biology. Psychology is way down there at #19…past even English and Communications.

A Top 10 List of High Paying Careers ranks Pharmaceutical Representative at #9 with an average starting salary of $51,000+. I happen to know of similar sales jobs in clinical diagnostics, research laboratory, histology, pathology, imaging, DNA, cellular, molecular, surgical supplies, hospital equipment, and medical device where you can do better. In a more specialized medical sales job, you can be one of the few, not one of the many, and be that much more successful. What kind of degree is most helpful for those jobs? Biology, microbiology, chemistry…you get the idea. Not psychology. Sorry.

Article courtesy of Carl Chapman - Founder CEC Search, LLC
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Someone at Chain Leader magazine needs to buy a clue

Chief Executive Restaurant Recruiter — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:50:20 +0000

The lawyers for Chain Leader magazine contacted us and threatened us with legal action for copyright infringement if we continued to display their magazine on our site. [their magazine was located on this page in an Iframe]

Since we were presenting their site in its entirety without modification, since we were not claiming any of their work as our own, we believe that what we were doing was completely legitimate and was actually helping their business by exposing our readers to their magazine.

It is our opinion that we were not breaking any laws and that we were using this page to serve our readers while also providing a direct benefit to Chain Leader magazine.

Apparently, the people in charge of the magazine who also direct their legal resources don’t have any idea how the Internet works. Good luck to them in their pursuit to capture market share from online magazines like Nation’s Restaurant News with editorial policy like this.

We apologize to any of our readers who are used to coming here to read Chain Leader magazine. We also regret that we can not in good conscience provide a link to their site.

Article courtesy of Carl Chapman - Founder CEC Search, LLC
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Reminds me of a super band from the late 70’s

Chief Executive Restaurant Recruiter — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:30:01 +0000

Styx and their song “Too Much Time On my Hands.”

Some people just don’t have enough real work to do. Take for example The National Inhalant Prevention Council who have been angered by and are protesting the Wendy’s commercial where office workers ‘fill’ themselves with helium.

Supposedly the action of filling themselves with helium will give people ‘inappropriate’ ideas. Come one guys, let’s do something constructive with your time and money. Helium is an inert gas that is sometimes added to deep water diver’s breathing gas mixture. It doesn’t cause any ill effects, other than that annoying chipmunks sounding voice. While these people are all riled up against Wendy’s, there are real inhalant issues out there to deal with. Mostly they can be handled with education, because kids usually only hear the ‘good’ effects of and not about the death or brain damage that huffing can lead to.

As for the commercial, well I don’t like any of the new Wendy’s ‘wig’ commercials, but that is another story.

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Wishing happy birthday to an icon

Chief Executive Restaurant Recruiter — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:32:17 +0000

The Big Mac turns 40 this year. The Big Mac was first introduced in 1967 by Jim Delligatti, a McDonald’s franchise owner in Uniontown, Pa. and within one year it was adopted nationwide.

There are more than 550 million big Macs sold each year (which is about 17 per second), making it one of the most popular sandwiches in history. In the days of my youth, we used to have races to see who could say "Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce. cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun" the fastest, rumor being that if you could say it in under 5 seconds, you would get a free one. I’ve only met one person who could say it backwards… I married her, but that isn’t the reason.

Happy birthday Big Mac, many happy returns!

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Welcome to the nanny states of America.

Chief Executive Restaurant Recruiter — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:57:27 +0000

Hey FTC surprise, fast food restaurants try to sell food to kids. In a a move that seems completely motivated by the meddlesome, nanny-wannabe attitude of our government officials, the FTC decides that they should investigate the marketing practices of 5 restaurant company giants. The two largest restaurant companies, the number 2 and 3 hamburger chains and Chuck E. Cheese Pizza are now forced to submit ALL of the marketing plans and programs and explain how they ‘target’ kids and adolescents.

I don’t know about you, but I’m sick and tired of the government telling me "what’s best for me" and trying to legislate my "perfect life." What in the heck are they thinking up there? We don’t know that kids love ‘Happy Meals’, mice that sing, or toys with the french fries? Come on. Can we not find better things to do with our tax dollars than fund ridiculous investigations of the fast food industry and whether or not they are trying to sell more hamburgers to kids. If it were me, as CEO of one of the big chains, I’d say "Yep you caught us, we are trying, really hard to sell more hamburgers to kids! So now what are you going to do?" Wasn’t our country built on capitalism and the free enterprise system? Last time we tried communism here, wasn’t it William Bradford who discovered that it just doesn’t work.

Come on Washington, enough already. How ’bout spending your energy on something important like figuring out how to win the war on terror.

You can read more about this story and other restaurant related news at the Restaurant Industry News pages on our website.

Article courtesy of Carl Chapman - Founder CEC Search, LLC
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8 things you’ll never need to know about me!

Chief Executive Restaurant Recruiter — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:05:09 +0000

Oh man, I’ve been TAGGED by Troy Bettinger of NotJobs. I’ve been tagged before, by my buddy Jason (not related to Jessica) Alba [and yes you can scroll down to the end and find a fresh pic of our favorite eye-candy] and enjoyed the links that game provided as well as getting to learn about some of the folks who were in the game. Back then, it was only 5 people I had to tag. Now it’s eight… holy cow! Hope they don’t get annoyed with me.

Troy was tagged Moises Lopez got tagged by Amybeth Hale (she of research goddess – still in training!), who was tagged by Dan Sweet from FRACAT, who was tagged by Christine O’Kelly of Create Business Growth Offer, who was tagged by Wizzer…. And that is far back as I can go. Having given you the history of our little lining pyramid scheme, now it’s time to lay out the rules of the game:

THE RULZ
1. Post these rules before you give you the facts.
2. List 8 random facts about yourself.
3. At the end of your post, choose (tag) 8 people and list their names (linking to them).
4. Leave them a comment on their blog letting them know theyâ€™ve been tagged!

So here we goâ€¦ eight random facts about Carl:

I was an Eagle Scout.
Until high school, I never attended any school more than 2 years.
At the age of 11, I caught an Atlantic sailfish that was 4 inches off the then world record.
I was certified as a scuba diver in 1973.
I have a cousin who was the Mayor of the town where my mom grew up.
In 1970 I spent 6 days in the hospital after being shot in the chest.
My beautiful bride of 22 years and I met while attending the regional training center during our management careers with Pizza Hut. I knew within a few days that I would marry her; we were married in less than a year.
Although I was slated to be a pilot after graduating from USNA, I HATE to fly.

Not sure that I’ll be able to find 8 people to tag, but here goes:

Jason Alba (he’s my favorite guy to dump work on) of Jibber Jobber.

Pat Lefler who is a shipmate from USNA and has an interesting blog called Intrepid Ideas

Tim Totten of Final Embrace

Janet Meiners of Newspapergrl

Dave Mendoza the wizard of networking from SixDegreesFromDave

The Recruiting Animal – of the recruiting animal talk radio show

~~Shally Steckerl – Master CyberSleuth~~ [already tagged]

Jason Goldberg of Jobster because I’d love to see how he reacts to being tagged

Barbara Ling of Recruiter 2.0 Marketing Musings

Now here is a picture of Jessica Alba

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Hilton Sells Amid Money Pressure

Chief Executive Restaurant Recruiter — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:15:56 +0000

In an apparent attempt to raise cash needed for Paris Hilton’s future bail, court fines, and criminal penalties – Hilton Hotels has agreed to be purchased by the Blackstone Group.

From Nation’s Restaurant News – BEVERLY HILLS , Calif. (Jul. 5) Hilton Hotels Corp. said it has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by The Blackstone Group in an all-cash transaction valued at $26 billion. The Hilton brand generated systemwide food and beverage sales of $1.1 billion in 2006, placing it at number 43 on Nation’s Restaurants News’ Top 100 Chains ranking. Hilton Hotels Corp., based here, placed 35^th on the Top 100 Companies ranking.

Our gossip reporter was not able to reach Paris for comment before press time, but we checked with the Recruiting Animal [known to be a big fan] who had this to say:

Have you seen that girl wash a car? It would be criminal to have her in jail again and unable to do any more commercials like that. I’m gonna to set up a radio-thon on my talk show to help augment the $26 billion – I’m not sure that’s enough, I wanna to make sure that she stays out of jail.

Check back for more news as the story develops.

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They pay you how much?!?!?!

Chief Executive Restaurant Recruiter — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:04:16 +0000

I was just reading today about a class action lawsuit that was approved to move forward in the courts. It seems that servers of Applebee’s are an approved class and the action is against Applebee’s International Inc. The suit alleges that servers are required to spend more than 20% of their time doing un-tipped work but that they are only compensated at the tipped employee hourly rate.

The only thing that I could find in the FLSA (Fair Labor Standards Act) with regard to hourly wages for tipped employees is that a tipped employee is defined as one who receives at least $30.00 dollars in tips during one month (this is the federal definition, some states vary.) And that reported tips plus the hourly tipped employee wage rate ($2.13/hr) must equal the federal minimum wage which is now $5.15/hr. I couldn’t find anything that delineated the amount of time spent in tipped or non-tipped activities.

As the estimates are that as many as 60,000 servers may be included in the class, if an average server worked only 20 hours per week, the judgment could zoom past $60 MM not including interest, if the payment shortage was just one dollar per hour. My conclusion is that this is just another example of a frivolous lawsuit brought to court by a greedy firm hoping to cash in big because of the size of the class. When I was in unit level management (at Shoney’s during it’s heyday) all the managers were out earned by the good servers on the wait staff.

Too bad this judge doesn’t seem to have any restaurant management in his background… he’d have thrown the case out with a big belly laugh.

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Got Milk? or Not the kind of meal that one expects in a restaurant

Chief Executive Restaurant Recruiter — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:42:59 +0000

I read an interesting blurb that I thought I would ask for opinions on. A woman has sued a restaurant chain over being asked to leave because she was breast feeding her child in public view. What are your thoughts?

By the way, you can read breaking restaurant news and stories on our corporate website on our restaurant news page or find additional interesting stories in our news archives.

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