Tardiness is an issue at every workplace you walk into. This is a consistent issue with many employees in the restaurant field. It is one thing to be late to a shift because of an emergency, accident, or illness. That is understandable and can be dealt with on an incident by incident basis. It is a different issue to be late all the time to every shift when the boss and co-workers are expecting an employee to show up on time. The worst things you can do as an owner or manager of a restaurant is to allow tardiness to go unnoticed or to consistently show up late yourself.
One of the best things ways to combat tardiness is to make each employee aware of how their timeliness affects the flow of the day. Most employees think that tardiness only affects them. What they don’t realize is that when they show up late it puts the entire workplace behind. You, as the owner or manager, have to help them see the big picture. You don’t have to come down on them with a hammer, but you can let them know how this is affecting the entire restaurant.
You can help and enable them by giving them this rule of thumb to keep in mind is this: show up at least ten minutes before the shift starts. This allows for a good transition time between employees start and stop times. Also, you can make some kind of reward for the employee that doesn’t show up late for their shift the entire month. Any other ideas to motivate your employees to show up on time?
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