Hiring software for your growing restaurant

CareerPlug helps restaurant owners, operators, and frontline managers hire the right people, faster

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Hiring software for your growing restaurant

CareerPlug helps restaurant owners, operators, and frontline managers hire the right people, faster

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CareerPlug’s Restaurant Hiring Software is designed with the needs of the high-volume, fast-paced restaurant industry in mind. Whether you are a full or quick-service restaurant, we know you depend on quality team members to serve your customers.

Our software is built on a proven process designed to make sure you end up with the right hires — not just any hire. With our easy-to-use system, you’ll be able to:

  • Post to all the major job boards with just one click
  • Evaluate candidates consistently with quick and easy assessments, interview guides, and reference check guides
  • Communicate with candidates and schedule interviews without ever leaving the software

Hiring Software for Restaurant Franchises

CareerPlug is proud to be the official applicant tracking system for these restaurant brands.

Free Resource

Download the 2024 Recruiting Metrics Report

Want to see more more hiring data? Download the full report to compare your recruiting stats to other industries and learn tips for improving your hiring process. 

“Recruiting and building a team that embraces our brand values and lives them daily is my top priority. […] Our collaboration with CareerPlug has provided us a with a platform that sets us up for success to find the best applicants to represent our brand. What is at the heart of our successful partnership with CareerPlug, is that they listen to our feedback, understand our challenges and are constantly striving to find new ways to simplify our hiring process, support our needs and connect us with the best applicants.”

Cat Santangelo

Director of Operations, Nothing Bundt Cakes

“CareerPlug has recruiting and onboarding tools that we utilize. For recruiting, it’s great being able to create messaging templates in advance so it takes less time reaching out to applicants. We were also able to customize our own assessments in the hiring process which was useful for us in evaluating leadership traits of potential candidates.”

Shayla Ricci

Manager

“The prescreen questions and scores has substantially reduced the time it takes my managers to go through resumes, call candidates and make job offers!”

Anna Ortize

HR Manager

Restaurant Hiring Case Studies

Chick-fil-A Case Study

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Kona Grill Case Study

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Recruit Quality Applicants with Careers Pages

Candidates who apply from company careers pages are 4 times more likely to become hires than candidates who come from job boards

SOURCE: CAREERPLUG’S 2024 RECRUITING METRICS REPORT
With CareerPlug, you can easily create custom job pages while still automatically posting to all major job boards – instantly.
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FREE RESTAURANT JOB POSTING TEMPLATES

Server Job Template

Download our free job description for a typical Server position

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Fitness Supervisor Template

Download our free job description for a typical Line Cook position

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Swim Instructor Template

Download our free job description for a typical Dishwasher position

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RECRUITING ADVICE FOR RESTAURANTS

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HOW TO HIRE 101

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Christina Waite

Platform Engineering Manager

Taylor Coleman

Tier 2 Manager

Erin Barlow

Consultant Manager

Sydney Kidd

Tier 1 Manager

Nicolle Gatlin

Manager of Partner Success

Aiden Kinney

Consultant Manager

Mae Beale

Engineering Manager

Polly Schandorf

Engineering Manager

5: AUTOMATE

Hiring is hard, but partnering with us makes it easier. From posting jobs to scheduling interviews, CareerPlug allows you to automate certain parts of the process to improve your results and save you time.

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3: EVALUATE

Once you think you have found the right person, use our reference and background check resources to verify them. Then, send an electronic offer letter from CareerPlug to close the deal!

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4: HIRE

Use our prescreen questions and assessments to identify the best applicants. Then use our interview questions and scorecards to evaluate for the right things consistently.

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2: COMMUNICATE

Use our notifications and automations to be the first to respond to qualified applicants. Send texts and emails from directly from CareerPlug to convert applicants to scheduled interviews.

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1: ATTRACT

Use our templates to create an attractive careers page and job posting. Then promote it through our job board partners, as well as directly with your employees, customers, and social network.

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Brandy Lee

Business Intelligence Manager

Eric Morales

Manager of Account Executives

Zach Garcia

Senior Manager of Operations

Tulay Solak

HR Manager

Tyler Berndsen

Manager of Partnership Account Executives

Ashley Johnson

Senior Manager of Partner Services

Originally from small town in central Texas, Ashley Johnson graduated from Texas State University in 2013 with a degree in Business Administration. She was hired by CareerPlug as a Talent Specialist in 2014, and moved up to ultimately lead the Recruitment Services team. From there, she pivoted to Implementation, and is now the Implementation Manager.

As the Implementation Manager, Ashley and 3 direct reports function as a transition between Sales and Partner Success in helping our clients get set up and established in our software. She spends her free time raising her 2 dogs, playing cornhole, and perfecting the art of charcuterie.

Kayla McCown

Manager of Partner Growth

Ashley Garia

Director of Product Marketing

Canaan Davis

Director of Engineering

Teresa Hall

Director of UX & Product Design

Brad Pilot

Senior Director of Sales

Leslie Chamberlain

Senior Director of Client Experience

Natalie Morgan

Senior Director of People

Andrew Robinson III

Vice President of Product and Engineering

Chris Igou

VP of Business Development

Chris accidentally started a 20-year career in franchising when he was 18 years old and took a job painting houses for College Pro Painters. That job turned into the ownership of his first franchise (a house painting franchise). While at Monmouth College in IL, he operated his business, played on the varsity football team, and studied to become a teacher.

The taste of entrepreneurship and desire to coach others led Chris deeper into franchising, working with a few franchise brands helping them grow their businesses. He lived in the Chicagoland area his entire life until recently moving his family to Austin, TX.

In his free time Chris coaches youth sports, especially youth football, and spends as much time as he can with his wife and 2 children.

Jenny Leman

President

Native to Texas, Jenny graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004 and joined CareerPlug in 2017. She retired her first career path as a Registered Dietitian after 10 years, and has found her true belonging in business operations.

As CareerPlug’s President, Jenny leads all teams to an aligned effort toward achieving our vision. She works to build healthy and scalable internal systems to equip and empower the CareerPlug teams to bring their best for our clients. She loves contributing new ideas and rethinking the status quo. Jenny really connects with the company’s core values, but especially with our intent to “Keep Growing.”

In her non-work life, Jenny enjoys time with her family, playing drums and performing with the Austin Samba School, and finding excuses to be on the lake.

Clint Smith

Founder & CEO

Clint founded CareerPlug in 2007 with the simple idea that there was a better way to help employers connect with quality applicants. Today Clint works every day to fulfill CareerPlug’s mission: Make Hiring Easier. Leading by example, Clint loves spending his time developing new ideas and teaching others.

After graduating from the University of Florida, Clint worked in investment banking and strategic marketing; both experiences influenced the development of CareerPlug. He also spent a year away from the business world teaching 5th grade in Boulder.

Clint is passionate about helping others succeed and is involved in numerous mentoring programs. He and his wife, Sarah, are also foster parents. Clint enjoys family time, beach volleyball, and outdoor adventures.