Resume dazzles, but teamwork rules the restaurant! #TeamworkSkills #RestaurantSuccess #CareerTips

10 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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Donald Burns contrasts impressive culinary resumes with on-the-job realities: technical skills (saute, deglaze, expo, amuse-bouche) can look strong on paper but often fail to reveal a candidate’s ability to work in a team. He emphasizes that teamwork and cultural fit are harder to teach than technical skills, and that poor culture fit is the leading cause of turnover in restaurants.

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You see a resume and you see words like saute, deglaze, expo, bis implies, amuse, bouche, this girl really knows their stuff. And then you bring them in and they're in your kitchen, and then you realize that they don't know the most important skill of all, how to work with a team. Here's the thing I want you to remember, and skills are easy to learn. The hard part is learning to work together as a team. And the number one cause of turnover is just poor culture fit. It means that you didn't take time to really make sure that they fit in with, with the rest of your team dynamics.