Kitchen Workers in a Snap

SnapChef helps connect skilled workers with temporary foodservice slots.

March 25, 2016

BOSTON – Finding temporary help when you’re short-staffed can be difficult in the best of circumstances—finding workers in a pinch who know their way around a kitchen can be next to impossible. Fifteen years ago, after experiencing how hard it was to fill open kitchen slots on a temporary basis, Todd Snopkowski created SnapChef, Boston Globe reports.

SnapChef—which recently hired its 1,000th employee—is now poised to expand beyond New England through franchising. “There’s a tremendous stopgap right now,” Snopkowski said of the area labor shortage. He partners with local rehabilitation centers and vocational schools to find staff, which SnapChef trains for free.

“The reality is there is only one thing that can hold this industry back,” said Bob Luz, president of the Massachusetts Restaurant Association, which provides training to SnapChef workers. “Not just in the Greater Boston area but across the country, there is a staffing crisis. Todd and his team are an incredible resource. This is one of the most critical things our industry needs.”

Snopkowski has plans to help smaller clients fill kitchen openings. “We’ve put a thousand people to work,” he said. “If they have zero experience but the right attitude, we’ll put them into a job.”

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