Catering
Restaurant recruitment: kitchen and floor, venue by venue
Cooks, servers, managers: the recruitment solution that reaches candidates around every venue, before they even start looking.
15 minutes with a sector specialist: a simulation on three of your hard-to-fill roles, with estimated channels and cost per application.
How do you recruit in food service?
Your challenges
- High turnover and career changes to other sectors
- Split shifts, evenings and weekends to highlight in the job ad
- Urgent hiring: every service counts
- Strong seasonality in tourist areas
Our solutions
- Your jobs on Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and Facebook, then on Indeed, job sites and mobile apps.
- Geo-targeting around each restaurant, on kitchen and front-of-house audiences, among 400,000+ targeting criteria
- Match Agent: every application enriched, even without a CV, then scored out of 5 with the reasons behind the score
- Seeqle connects to your ATS: jobs imported, enriched candidates sent back to their record (60+ ATS and CRMs)
Additional benefits
- Roles filled before the next service
- Candidates comfortable with split shifts, evenings and weekends
- Up to 5x more qualified talent
- A score your recruiters can stand behind, with the decision left to people
+56% of qualified applications in the kitchen for 3 Brasseurs
+56% of qualified applications in the kitchen for 3 Brasseurs
With Seeqle technology, 3 Brasseurs got +56% qualified applications on kitchen roles and +30% on front-of-house roles, while lowering its candidate acquisition cost.
What are the challenges and the hard-to-fill roles?
Restaurants hire continuously, service after service, venue by venue. The roles under pressure:
- Cooks and kitchen assistants,
- Head chefs and sous-chefs,
- Waiters and chefs de rang,
- Bartenders,
- Restaurant managers and directors.
Seeqle shows them your jobs on Instagram, TikTok or Snapchat, with geo-targeting around each restaurant.
Two public sources put numbers on these shortages: France Travail's 2026 labour needs survey (BMO), searchable by job and by local labour market, and AKTO, the skills operator for labour-intensive services.
Recruit effectively in food service with Seeqle's AI Agents
In food service, every vacant role is felt in the dining room and in the kitchen. Your job ads have to reach the right profiles before they even search.
How to recruit for restaurants: a 4-step method
- One venue, one campaign. The manager launches it in 2 minutes, the Attract Agent targets candidates in the neighbourhood.
- Reach profiles before they look. Your ads appear on Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat, on top of 35+ job channels, including Indeed.
- Screen on availability. The Match Agent scores every application out of 5: kitchen or floor experience, split shifts, weekends, distance.
- Get the right candidates. Each report suggests interview questions: rush service, kitchen hygiene, upselling, teamwork.
With Seeqle targeted advertising, every restaurant gets its own campaign, launched in 2 minutes by its manager.
In the kitchen, our article on how to hire cooks among passive candidates shows how to reach people who are not looking.
The advantages of Seeqle for recruiting in food service
What the Match Agent hands your team for every cook or server application:
- A justified score out of 5 on what matters for this role: kitchen or floor experience, split-shift and weekend availability, distance to the restaurant
- A complete interview guide, created in one click: profile summary, strengths, points to watch, role-play scenarios and tailored questions (the rush during service, kitchen hygiene, welcoming guests and upselling, teamwork), each with the reason to ask it
- The report in your ATS: score, predictions and guide sent back to the candidate record
Accor, a major hospitality and food service group, also recruits with Seeqle.
Frequently asked questions about restaurant recruitment
Split shifts, weekends and seasonality shrink the pool, and many good profiles are employed. You need to go to them rather than wait for applications.
Around the venue, on the social networks and apps they use, on top of job sites. Seeqle distributes the ad within a radius of the restaurant.
One campaign per venue, applications scored out of 5 and central tracking. Seeqle connects to your ATS, among 60+ compatible ATS and CRM tools.
3 Brasseurs got +56% qualified applications for kitchen roles and +30% front of house.
From €500 per month. The free trial lasts 14 days, no credit card.
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