Every restaurant needs a great manager. Having the right team is crucial to scaling revenue and achieving business longevity. LANDED's CEO and Founder Vivian Wang shares crucial strategies to secure top tier leadership.
Restaurant industry leader, Andrew Feghali, PhD has joined as a formal advisor. Dr. Feghali will work closely with the LANDED executive team to achieve growth across the restaurant industry.
The last few months have been rough on technology employees with several high-profile companies from Microsoft and PayPal laying off thousands of workers. Facebook parent company Meta is expected to announce a second round of layoffs this week.
LANDED, the first end-to-end recruitment engine for the restaurant and hospitality industries, announced today that restaurant industry leader Michael Beacham has joined as a formal adviser. Beacham will work closely with the LANDED executive team to help formulate and refine company strategy as it seeks to expand its footprint in the restaurant industry.
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In today’s market, it seems that just about every restaurant is hiring. Job candidates have their choice of any number of open positions – and the most qualified applicants get snapped up fast.
If you invest upfront to craft job descriptions carefully, you’ll save time later. When looking for employment, most young people turn to online job boards and social Media outlets like Instagram, Twitter, or TikTok.
Pre-dating the pandemic, hiring has challenged the restaurant industry for years. But today’s climate has left operators competing for talent like never before.
A new survey from restaurant and hospitality recruitment platform LANDED found that 67% of blue collar workers have looked for a new job in the past year. Yet high turnover rates in these industries mean that employers will have to do some heavy lifting to get them to stay.
Vivian Wang is the Founder & CEO of LANDED, which offers a turnkey technology solution to help hourly workers land restaurant jobs while helping restaurants find top-notch players for their teams. After graduating from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, Vivian worked in roles ranging from advising European central banks on financial markets strategy at BlackRock and launching the Asia & EMEA markets at real estate tech company, Matterport (NASDAQ: MTTR), to leading special projects for the C-suite at Gap, Inc., owner of Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, Athleta, and Intermix. In the following interview, Vivian shares her story, which includes launching the company just days before restaurant shutdowns occurred due to the global pandemic, and also her perspective on how technology can help alleviate the worker shortage challenges that so many restaurants face today.
One operator previously spent up to three hours on recruiting each day.
Main Squeeze Juice Company is a rapidly growing fast casual juice and smoothie bar that has more than 25 different franchise locations from Louisiana to Texas to Mississippi with 60 locations in various stages of development across the country. With aggressive plans for growth during a serious labor shortage for the fast casual industry, hiring is a major challenge for the organization.
If “The Great Resignation” taught us anything, it is that people want to be appreciated, respected and well paid for their work. Staff turnover in restaurants and hospitality has always been an issue, with people leaving at an average rate of 30%. That’s where Landed comes in.
Hiring restaurant employees in the current environment is challenging. Vivian Wang knows firsthand. She worked in the retail sector at the Gap and saw the problems with traditional hiring and onboarding within the service industry. To overcome the obstacles, she founded Landed, an application platform that has helped Wendy’s, Chick-fil-A and others in the restaurant industry recruit and retain quality employees.
As inflation soars and Omicron fades, the battle for talent and value surges ahead.
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You used to be able to hang out a “Help Wanted” sign and have 50 people line up for the job. Now there are 50 “Help Wanted” signs and one candidate,” says Ian Milford, principal at Vancouver-based JRoss Recruiters.
Jose Andres-owned ThinkFoodGroup has selected Landed to help find qualified employees for its four new dining destinations at The Ritz-Carlton, Nomad in New York City.
Landed, which provides the first end-to-end recruitment engine for the restaurant and hospitality industries, announced today that ThinkFoodGroup, the company behind José Andrés’ award-winning group of restaurants, is now using Landed to help find qualified employees for its four new dining destinations at The Ritz-Carlton, Nomad, opening this spring.
Jacksonville, Florida-based Maple Street Biscuit Company has accelerated its hiring efforts by rolling out Landed, a mobile app connecting hourly food and retail workers with local employers. Maple Street, which has over 40 stores and has been opening locations at a rate of one or two per month, is using the app to not only fill open positions at existing stores but also when it opens locations.
Fast-casual restaurant chain Maple Street Biscuit Company has implemented Landed’s mobile app to expedite employee hiring efforts for its existing as well as new restaurants.
Landed, which provides the first mobile app connecting hourly food and retail workers with local employers, announced today that fast-growing, fast-casual restaurant chain Maple Street Biscuit Company is now using Landed to accelerate its hiring efforts for its existing and new opening restaurants. Known for serving comfort food with a modern twist, Maple Street currently has over 40 stores, and is opening new locations at a rate of 1-2 per month.
Few people would argue that 2021 has brought its own set of unique challenges for the restaurant industry. From supply chain issues to critical staffing shortages, even the largest restaurant chain has felt the pinch this year.
It’s already one of the toughest labor markets in decades, and restaurants—already struggling to staff enough for typical days—are now faced with staffing up even further in anticipation of holiday traffic that has already started. Seasonal hiring is especially competitive, as some employers temporarily increase pay rates and offer other types of benefits in order to attract temporary seasonal workers.
On Thanksgiving, customers showed up to a Boston Market in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. to pick up their pre-ordered Thanksgiving meals and were disappointed to find that the store had unexpectedly closed due to staffing shortages.
Blaze Pizza franchisee Ben Salehi has tapped Landed, a mobile app connecting hourly food and retail workers with local employers, to automate the process of finding, screening and hiring candidates for his multiple Blaze Pizza locations in Southern California.
The pandemic proved that the most agile and digital-ready restaurants will survive. Insider‘s list recognizes the innovative leaders in the industry.
Landed, which provides the first mobile app connecting hourly food and retail workers with local employers, announced today that Riviera Blaze is now using the Landed app to automate the process of finding, screening and hiring the best candidates for its multiple Blaze Pizza locations in Southern California.
From the “Great Resignation” to the “labor crisis,” the industry’s hiring setbacks show few signs of tapering off. If anything, it’s only evolving. Food and drink establishments gained just 29,000 jobs in September, meaning restaurants remain a million jobs short of pre-COVID levels. Will that number recover? Are we headed, at least near-term, for an industry of fewer, yet higher-paid workers? More automation?
Restaurants continue to suffer from a lack of available staff. All over the country, restaurants are limiting their hours or even closing completely. While the expiration of extra pandemic-related unemployment benefits may help encourage more people to reenter the workforce, employers are finding that many people don’t want to return to or enter the service industry—instead, they are retraining for more skilled or remote-work friendly positions.
Landed, which provides the first mobile app connecting hourly food and retail workers with local employers, announced today that Lehigh Valley Restaurant Group, a Red Robin franchise with 20+ locations in Pennsylvania, is now using the Landed app to automate the process of finding, screening and hiring the best candidates for its restaurants.
Ask any operator in any industry about the biggest problem they’re facing today and they’ll tell you it’s labor. To address the challenge, many operators are examining a new breed of labor tools with artificial intelligence or machine-learning capabilities.
Landed, which provides the first mobile app connecting hourly food and retail workers with local employers, announced today that multiple franchised locations of Crumbl Cookies are now relying on the Landed app to accelerate hiring in a very tight labor market. Crumbl, with 200 bakeries in 32 states nationwide, is the fastest-growing cookie company in the nation.
Due to a confluence of events — including the pandemic and record-high unemployment benefits — employers find themselves in one of the tightest labor markets in decades. Candidates have a plethora of options (including gig work or not working at all), and that’s led to frequent ghosting of employers, no-shows for interviews and high turnover among employees.
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Landed has helped restaurant operators at chains like Chick-fil-A and Taco Bell hire 5,500 workers since the beginning of the year.
In today’s tight job market, to be competitive and stay top of mind of potential hires, it’s important to launch a holistic recruitment marketing strategy to support basic recruiting functions. The talent acquisition funnel starts with building awareness, driving consideration, then interest before moving into traditional recruitment steps of application, interview selection, and hiring. The steps that come before application are the blind spot that many talent acquisition teams are ignoring, causing them to fall behind and become less relevant in the minds of their target candidate pool.
Landed, which provides the first mobile app connecting hourly food and retail workers with local employers, announced on Tuesday that Apple Core Enterprises has turned to its app to help find high-quality candidates during the current hiring rush. Apple Core is a major Applebee’s franchisee with 22 locations across North Dakota, Minnesota, Arizona, and southern California.
During this sweltering summer month of June 2021, people worldwide have been celebrating the history, culture, and community of LGBTQIA+ members, a movement that fundamentally breaks into the professional world as well. Companies continue to implement Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts as a larger push to include workers from all backgrounds within the workplace to foster a more collaborative atmosphere. This past month, in continuation with policies inspired and built over the past few years, several retail and restaurant brands have created and executed innovative measures to achieve just this.
Landed, which provides the first mobile app connecting hourly food and retail workers with local employers, announced today several important new features, including chat AI and a multi-channel messaging API to streamline communication with candidates and help employers track hiring progress.
Virtually all of the dozens of delivery fee caps enacted during the pandemic were initially intended to be temporary, set to expire sometime after the crisis ends and restaurants are back on their feet. But officials in two major cities—San Francisco and New York—last week moved forward with plans to make those caps permanent. And other governments have shown a willingness to extend the caps, if not set them in stone.
As labor woes around the country escalate, the Landed app that connects local employers with hourly retail and food workers has been updated.
Food tech companies such as Thanx, 7shifts, GoTab, and Landed are easing restaurant labor shortage pains.
This past year was transformative in just about every way, and the changes continue in 2021. After a period of record unemployment, companies are now struggling to hire enough staff to stay open. Stories abound, especially in retail and restaurants, about businesses being forced to reduce hours or close due to lack of staff.
With technology becoming an integral part of companies across industries, more businesses now have tech experts on their leadership teams. This is bringing tech leaders out of their silos to become everyday contributors to overall business decisions and direction—meaning they must be familiar with fundamental business concepts both to fully understand all potential outcomes and to communicate their ideas to fellow leaders and members of the C-suite.
In the first part of this series published last week, restaurant industry leaders not only underscored the severity of the current worker shortage, but also tended to line up under two very different headings as to what they feel is causing the industry‘s current labor pains.
Amid an ongoing labor shortage, major restaurant brands are experimenting with mass hiring events, bonuses, pay raises and streamlined application processes to attract much-needed employees.
At least one organization is reporting 76% of the many current and former restaurant workers leaving the industry said they are doing so because they‘re not making enough money. But is that really the cause for the current quick-service employee exodus? In the first of a two-part report industry leaders give their take.
The good news for restaurants is now that many state restrictions are lifted and dining hours are expanding, newly vaccinated patrons are venturing out, and the restaurants who survived are getting slammed with customers. But the bad news is they are having trouble hiring and filling positions across the board for cooks, servers, FOH and BOH positions.
Foodservice workers burnt out by the segment‘s recent instability are leaving for other industries or living on high unemployment benefits, sparking a staffing crisis as dining rooms open.
As restaurants reopen and restaff, employers are feverishly trying to restock their team with quality talent. Suddenly finding — and retaining — that talent has become the latest pandemic problem. And no, it‘s not just the annual 130% turnover rate (yikes!) and the abundance of employee "ghosting" that constantly occurs in the industry, but also just flat-out finding the time to actually do it.
Until about five years ago, Kenzie Williford worked in a restaurant. Then she had her first child and became a stay-at-home mom, putting foodservice behind her to take care of her kids, ages 5 and 2.
Thanks to vaccine distribution and loosening restrictions, sales and demand are finally starting to sync for restaurants. Nine of 11 regions tracked by Black Box Intelligence posted positive two-year sales growth during the week that ended April 4 (only California and New England did not). The period also marked the third consecutive week restaurants generated positive comps on a two-year stack.
In 2020, unfortunate events in the U.S. shed light on social inequities that permeate our communities. People banded together to change policies and build awareness so that underrepresented individuals could have a voice. Employers moved to ensure employees at all levels bolster diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in building tomorrow’s workforce.
Super King Markets, an eight-store chain in Southern California recently revamped its hiring process and is now attracting skilled talent twice as fast as it used to, all while maintaining its goal of 100% positions filled.
In businesses with high turnover – think, food or retail – managers spend a good portion of their time on hiring. The more efficiently and effectively they can hire, the less money and time they’ll spend, and the lower their turnover will be.
It’s no doubt 2020 was a difficult year for job seekers across the U.S. For me, all the alarming news stories circulating online about the havoc COVID-19 would wreak became vividly real that second week of March. Overnight, we saw job seekers pouring into our newly launched job candidate app by the thousands. This made our work at Landed all the more urgent and we’ve been directing all our energy into building the fastest way for furloughed or laid off hourly workers to land on their feet with a new job.
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Hiring continues to get more digital in the food retail world, with the pandemic adding some fresh complexities. But a new funding round for a mobile tech firm — along with a recent deployment of virtual reality technology — shows how some companies are rising to the challenge, and what’s coming next for hiring and onboarding.
Landed, which provides the first mobile app connecting hourly food and retail workers with local employers, announced today the official launch of its platform which uses engaging video profiles to help candidates stand out, leverages AI technology for matching candidates to jobs, and automates much of the hiring process for employers. The company also announced the close of a seed funding round: $1.4M led by Javelin Venture Partners, which has backed the likes of MasterClass and Thumbtack, with participation from Y Combinator, Palm Drive Capital, and key angels.
San Francisco, California-based restaurant tech company Landed announced the official launch of its mobile app that connects hourly restaurant and retail workers with potential employers. The company has also raised a $1.4 million seed round led by Javelin Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Palm Drive Capital, with angel investors also participating in the round.
Landed, which provides the first mobile app connecting hourly food and retail workers with local employers, announced today the official launch of its platform which uses engaging video profiles to help candidates stand out, leverages AI technology for matching candidates to jobs, and automates much of the hiring process for employers. The company also announced the close of a seed funding round: $1.4M led by Javelin Venture Partners, which has backed the likes of MasterClass and Thumbtack, with participation from Y Combinator, Palm Drive Capital, and key angels.
Platforms aimed at finding warehouse workers, retail workers, subject-matter experts and drivers recently announced funding rounds along with one startup that aims to use AI and psychology to match workers with jobs.
Landed, a startup aiming to improve the hiring process for hourly employers and job applicants, is officially launching its mobile app today. It’s also announcing that it has raised $1.4 million in seed funding.
Inc. Magazine has named LANDED a 2024 Power Partner Award winner. This annual list recognizes the country's leading B2B companies that have proven track records of supporting entrepreneurs and helping companies grow.
LANDED, the only end-to-end hiring solution for restaurants and hospitality groups, is recognized as an emerging technology to optimize high-volume, hourly hiring.
LANDED, which provides the first end-to-end recruitment engine for the restaurant and hospitality industries, announced today it has raised a $7M seed round of funding.
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In today’s episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Vivian Wang, CEO of LANDED, an end-to-end recruitment platform that’s raised over $8 Million in funding, about why personal growth and career development isn’t only for the upper echelons of the corporate world, and the aspirational vision that millions of blue collar workers across America and beyond have for their future.
This week we talk to LANDED founder and CEO Vivian Wang who is on a mission to connect blue-collar workers with high-quality job opportunities.
