Scheduling Strategies to Prevent Employee Burnout and Survive This Holiday Season

In the last few months, restaurants across the country from San Francisco to Cape Cod have announced closures to give staff a much-needed mental health break.

Most restaurant owners would be loath to shutter their doors, especially as customer demand has jumped compared to 2020. But more demanding, less patient customers, combined with a mass exodus of restaurant workers, are leaving those employees who choose to remain in the industry strained to the limit.

Employee Burnout Is RealBurnout among restaurant workers is nothing new. The hours are long and the work can be grueling, especially when customer demand is high. 

Many of us might equate the word “burnout” with just a general lack of motivation or even laziness amongst employees. But in reality, burnout is a medically classified diagnosis describing physical and emotional exhaustion with effects that can be the same as other mental health disorders like anxiety and depression.

No matter how much employees love their work…