Staffing a catering business for events can be a challenge. Catering businesses need reliable, skilled workers with flexible schedules. Luckily, there are some tools to help find catering staff. On-demand staffing apps, like Bacon, are the best way to streamline the process of finding catering temp staff and event temp staff.
Why On-Demand Staffing is the Solution
On-demand staffing is a modern, flexible solution for hiring catering and event temp staff. The on-demand staffing app model provides businesses with speed, flexibility, cost-savings, and reliability.
On-demand staffing apps, like Bacon, are the quickest way to find temp workers. When using an app, businesses are instantly connected to pre-vetted and background-checked workers.
The control of on-demand staffing allows businesses to match their temp staffing to their real-time and unique staffing needs.
Temp agencies are notorious for providing unreliable workers. With on-demand staffing apps, the workers choose the shifts they want to work. Bacon has a strict rating and review system that helps catering businesses on Bacon reach an average fill rate of 90%.
Staffing apps are the most cost-effective way to staff events and catering businesses. With Bacon businesses only pay for the hours worked. There are no contracts or minimum time requirements so you can be cost-effective while still getting reliable staff.
Benefits of On-Demand Staffing:
- Speed: Quickly find workers when you need them.
- Flexibility: Scale up or down based on event size and demand.
- Reliability: Access a pool of pre-vetted, experienced workers.
- Cost-Effective: Pay only for the hours worked, avoiding unnecessary costs.
On-demand staffing can be used to fill roles like servers, bartenders, kitchen assistants, event setup, teardown crew, security, and more.
On-demand Staffing App Tools
The best part about staffing apps is that there are multiple features within the platforms that can be effective in temp staffing. Here are some fan favorites from the Bacon platform.
Favorites List
When catering and event businesses find a Bacon Worker they like, they can add them to their Favorites List. The Favorites list can be used as a bench of workers who have already worked for the business and can be directly invited back to future shifts, so businesses don’t receive random workers each time they get to choose who to invite and who workers their shifts.
Skills and Certifications
When filling out a shift posting businesses have complete control over the shift details. Businesses choose the worker wages, call number, shift times and skills required. Catering and Event managers can post shifts for workers with specific certifications like Alcohol Handers Permit for bartending shifts or food handlers permits for line cooks.
Ratings and Reviews
Bacon makes it simple for managers to choose which workers to accept on a shift. Each worker has a Bacon Score, which is a comprehensive representation of a worker's reliability and work ethic. The higher the Bacon Score the better the worker.
After a shift businesses are given the chance to rate and review workers. These ratings have a direct impact on a Bacon Worker's Bacon Score.
Zero Tolerance Policy
Bacon has a zero-tolerance policy for drug use, intoxication, harassment, theft or violent behavior. Workers who disregard this policy are removed from the platform.
Backup Worker
The Backup Worker feature uses an algorithm to determine how many backup workers to send to a shift to ensure that the shift gets filled. If a backup worker is not needed the business turns them away and Bacon pays them for their time.
In app Messaging
The Bacon app has in-app messaging, which allows for direct communication between workers and catering businesses. This clear means of communication helps both workers and businesses be informed.
Easy to use platform
The Bacon platform is simple and easy to use with a clear way to view and schedule shifts.
“It’s a very flexible platform.There’s pretty much no situation that you can’t solve with it [BACON]. You can even choose person by person who you want there. So you really get to make your shift for what you need, whenever you need it.” -Red Stag Fulfillment Inbound Process Lead.
Real Life Examples
AE&ES
Amusement Exhibition and Event Services, also known as Just Call Gary, utilize Bacon to staff 83% of their team. AE&ES works large scale events in Las Vegas, including the Superbowl and F1. They use Bacon as a reliable source of getting the temp labor they need to successfully run these events.
“Bacon Workers aren’t temp workers, they’re gig workers.. These people are invested, they want to be there, they want to learn. They want to be rated well, they’re committed to showing up and communicating with us.” - Steffany Avera, COO
UVCC
Utah Valley Convention Center has utilized Bacon for five years. Bacon allows UVCC to match their temp staff to their real-time needs, with shifts filling in as little as 5 minutes. Bacon not only helps UVCC find event staff, but lets in-house hires start working as soon as they are available while their paperwork and onboarding are processed.
“We just feel like Bacon has our back. When we have special needs for 25 banquet servers for one shift on one night, we know that Bacon can pull that off and come through.” - Maylene Kavanaugh, Office Manager
Staffing a catering business doesn’t have to be stressful. On-demand staffing apps, like Bacon, provide fast, reliable solutions for finding general temp labor.
To learn more about how on-demand staffing works check out the Bacon Catering Staffing and Event Staffing pages.
