The next time you visit a Raising Cane’s restaurant the person taking your order or the fry cook prepping your plate might also work in the corporate office. Cane’s Regional Vice President Matt Massey said it’s an initiative to help with the ongoing labor shortage.
“On top of that lend assistance in recruiting new crewmembers to become part of our family as we continue to backfill positions and grow into 2022,” said Massey.
Massey said the labor shortage isn’t unique to Cane’s and like other fast-food restaurants they aren’t sure what the silver bullet is to help turn it around but they are trying a method that they’ve used in the past to help with employee shortages after hurricanes impacted their eateries.
“But the approach that we’re trying to take is something that we’ve always prided ourselves on and that’s the fact that everybody who works at Raising Cane’s is a fry cook and a cashier,” said Massey.
The chain is hoping to hire 10,000 new workers in the next 50 days as corporate employees are working side by side with existing employees at their restaurants. Massey said it also shows workers the potential to be promoted to the corporate office one day.
“There’s nothing but good that will come out of this. I think we may be unique in the fact that not only is there a desire to go out to help and serve but there’s the ability to do it,” said Massey.
The first Raising Cane’s opened in Baton Rouge in 1996 and has grown to more than 550 locations across the U-S.
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