A few years ago, Green Giant had a serious quality problem: Too many insect parts and rodent hairs were turning up in its vegetables. Some compensation expert decided to give incentives to workers for finding these foreign objects, reasoning that it would adequately address the problem. Guess what? Workers began smuggling the offending objects from home and putting them into vegetables.
Unless you’re careful, incentives can come around to bite you in the, um, artichoke, as they did with Green Giant.
In almost every survey, money ranks No. 1 as the reward that most motivates worker performance...
A question was posed by one of our Restaurant Success Monthly Members, Buddy Guilbeau:
Do you have any ideas on how to increase my corporate hams sales...
What are your customers shopping for and where? One of the things that happens when a restaurant brand becomes complacent is consumers reduce the frequency...
How do you think of your restaurant?
Are you thinking too small? What are all the ways that you can use your restaurant? What are all the ways you can...
Pork production last week rose 1.5% from the previous week and was 1.8% larger than last year. The September US and Canadian hog/pig (3%) and breeding (3.3%) herds were both notably smaller than last...
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Creating your Silent Partner
Posted by: Robert
When it comes to creating a menu... who is best suited to compose it for the restaurateur?
