Grocerant niche Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat prepared
food is driving top line growth and bottom line profits for companies that are
expanding their fresh food options.
Success does not come easy as the competition for foodservice workers
continues to heat up. Many convenience
store operators have targeted legacy pre-trained restaurant workers according
to Foodservice Solutions® Grocerant Guru®.
One example is Thortons who announced that they plan
to
hire more than 100 employees starting at a new minimum rate of $10.25 per hour
in the Louisville area. That is up 12
percent vs. the current starting rate.
The minimum wage in Kentucky will go from the current $ 7.25 an hour on
of August 1, 2016 to $ 8.20 per hour.
Many
restaurants in Kentucky continue to start employees at minimum wage. Thortons has the ability to leverage one of
the hallmarks of the grocerant niche Mix and Match bundling to offset the
higher wage rate creating a platform enabling too recruit and retain a good employees.
Higher pay is not
enough in fact Thortons has a bundle of benefits that it plans to offer
including “Employee Stock Ownership Program, through which employees become
owners of the company after one full year of service. The retailer also matches
401K contributions with company stock dollar-for-dollar up to 4
percent. Other benefits include bonus potential, group insurance, free
meals and beverages, and discounts on fuel.”
Thorntons operates
183 stores in Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee and Florida and
understands too continue expanding it grocerant niche Ready-2-Eat and
Heat-N-Eat fresh food program that customer are migrating to it needs the
ability to recruit, retrain, and retain employees.
Is it time that you
consider expanding your grocerant niche offerings? Are you garnering all you can from you Mix
and Match retail foodservice offerings?
Is it time for Outside Eyes? Contact Steve@FoodserviceSolutions.us or visit: www.FoodserviceSolutions.us for more
information.
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