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Ask most restaurant proprietors the most difficult aspect of finding good people for the job and you will invariably find the answer to be, “Keeping them!” Employee turnover in restaurants approaches a rate that is almost phenomenal, which requires many establishments to overstaff constantly, and as a result waste an undue amount of time and energy on potential employees that never even see the floor.
In a college town such as Davis, many students see restaurants as a chance to make a quick and easy buck: working five hours and walking away with a hundred dollars. The instant the work becomes stressful (which is an inevitability in the industry) it is altogether too easy for an employee to cut and run, leaving the place of employment, in this case a restaurant, in the lurch and searching for a replacement.
While this is something that is perhaps unique to a demographic like Davis, the environment of a restaurant as a place of employment is not; that being, most staff memberships resemble that of a severely dysfunctional family, and as is the case with most dysfunctional families, members tend to come and go in a haphazard sort of way, allowing for hardly any foundation to be built upon.
Enter Seasons Restaurant. Opened in the Fall of 2003 by Tamas Torok and a business associate, this establishment has broken through what may be conceived as a 'social norm’ for restaurants by retaining much of its core staff even to this day.
In a college town such as Davis, many students see restaurants as a chance to make a quick and easy buck: working five hours and walking away with a hundred dollars. The instant the work becomes stressful (which is an inevitability in the industry) it is altogether too easy for an employee to cut and run, leaving the place of employment, in this case a restaurant, in the lurch and searching for a replacement.
While this is something that is perhaps unique to a demographic like Davis, the environment of a restaurant as a place of employment is not; that being, most staff memberships resemble that of a severely dysfunctional family, and as is the case with most dysfunctional families, members tend to come and go in a haphazard sort of way, allowing for hardly any foundation to be built upon.
Enter Seasons Restaurant. Opened in the Fall of 2003 by Tamas Torok and a business associate, this establishment has broken through what may be conceived as a 'social norm’ for restaurants by retaining much of its core staff even to this day.