Pizza Today - November 2021 - 12

MIKE'S MONTHLY TIP
MIKE BAUSCH
extremely tough and rare to poach an
employee successfully from another business.
Assuming that you do, you're now
beginning your professional relationship
with them poorly. Th ey are disloyal, and
your integrity isn't super strong in their
eyes. Additionally, you have shown yourself
to be less than above-board to the
employees you don't successfully poach.
I am fully aware of the hiring crisis. I
am conscious that solid people are the
lifeblood of any thriving business. It
would help if you had good people. Th is
is not the path to getting good people.
It's the path to you looking like a garbage,
dirty, poachy leach of a human.
If you poach in the classic sense, you
just come off as slimy. I've had people
drive behind my restaurant to talk to my
staff who are on a break and say, " You
should come and work for me. I pay x per
hour. " What's even crazier was this fi gure
was $3 less per hour than what they got
with me. Even if they off ered the same or
more than me, all the other parts that go
into hiring weren't considered. Th e driveby
off er treated the staff as a commodity
up for bid instead of a valued asset.
Restaurants who do this are desperate,
Don't Poach, Part I
H
ere is a typical scenario we've all
seen happen. You go to another
restaurant and see a fantastic
employee. You wish this employee were
your employee, so your brain starts spinning.
How can I make this wish a reality?
Th erein lies the predicament; to do that
would make you a poacher, and poaching
is bad. Don't poach employees. Here's
why.
As much as you might believe it's
okay, thinking to yourself, " All's fair in
business, " you're creating more problems
than you're solving. Additionally, it is
and they fail. Th ey fail for a multitude of
reasons. One, they're not ethical, and that
perpetuates the way they exist in their
whole business. It's precisely why doing
business practices like this is shortsighted.
It shows that you're not seeking
to partner in your community but rather
someone who takes advantage of others.
You open the doors to engage other restaurant
owners in an arms race for staff
that no one wins. You also destroy any
goodwill you have with other restaurant
owners to not actively poach from you.
Now it's game on from now til eternity.
Again, that's why this practice is dumb.
Next month we'll discuss some extenuating
circumstances and how to navigate
them.
MIKE BAUSCH is the owner of Andolini's Pizzeria in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Instagram: @mikeybausch
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