Raising Cane’s Company Staff as Chain Fry Cooks

Raising Cane’s is a chain that slings chicken fillets with the best of them. (I’m a fan, like some of you longtime readers can remember.) Lately, the chain has felt the burden of the current market’s labor shortages – which is why, in an interesting move, the company is sending a huge half of its corporate staff at various Raising Cane locations to fill vacancies this week. Bloomberg Reports that the costumes will perform the functions of fry cooks, cashiers and recruiters.

Business intern Explain that Raising Cane’s is in the midst of a Herculean push to hire 10,000 workers in the next 50 days to support aggressive expansion plans. (Good luck, as other chains like White Castle use candidates from years ago.) In the meantime, the people of the company go to the kitchen.

Anyone can learn a lot from working in a restaurant. This is the best way to understand what service workers do on a daily basis. For fast food companies, I honestly think this sort of thing should be mandatory for company employees. Still, it’s hard for me not to think that this is some kind of publicity stunt. Obviously, this is a productive project, one that will earn potential employees, I’m sure.

The Initiated the article does not mention exactly how long company employees will be in restaurants to complete this project; if it’s just for, say, a week, it seems a little insulting to the employees who have to deal with cooking risks and surly customers each day.

“It’s no secret that today’s hiring market is a challenge,” said Raising Cane co-CEO AJ Kumaran. Bloomberg. He also said that “having the support we need is essential” in order to support the company’s expansion plans. Weird. I wonder if there is anything a company could do to attract more workers. Something drastic like, oh, say, pay people more? And treat people like human beings and not, say, disposables? Anyway, it’s unclear whether or not the executives will take care of the frying equipment, but if they do, I have a tip as a longtime cook: wear comfortable shoes. . You’re going to need it.