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#142 Peer Larson: What One Question Exposes a Bad Job Before You Sign?

#142 Peer Larson: What One Question Exposes a Bad Job Before You Sign?

If your restaurant hiring plan is posting on Indeed and sorting resumes, you’re buried in quick apply noise. Peer Larson leads Posana Biltmore Park in Asheville for Mandara Hospitality Group, and he spent years as a hospitality recruiter. He breaks down how great restaurant managers really find, hire, train and keep hospitality workers. We get into interview red flags, the questions that expose a bad fit on both sides of the table, delegating without burning out your management team, giving feedback that lands, reading a P&L as a profit tool and not a report card, and why a calm GM sets the temperature for the whole shift.

Expect to Learn:

  • The one question Peer asks every employer before he accepts a job, and the answer that tells him to run.
  • The opening line Peer coaches his managers to use on angry guests
  • The candidate red flags that end an interview, plus the one he quit caring about.
  • How to tell whether you’re delegating too much or too little, and how to free yourself to “cruise at a higher altitude.”
  • The copy and paste test that quietly cuts half your applicant pool before a single interview.

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