Keeping Your Best Food Truck Employees

Few mobile food business owners succeed without great talent supporting them. So retaining your food truck’s star employees is not only good for the company, but for you as leader. Here are three ways to keep your best people around:

Trust the team. Give your staff the opportunity to use their unique strengths every day. Allow them to do what they are best at.
Make connections. Spend time every day checking in with individuals to see how they’re doing — personally and professionally. Avoid private or sensitive topics unless your employee brings them up.
Respect individuality. Recognize your people’s individual needs, and customize assignments, perks, and recognition accordingly.

About the Author: Richard Myrick

Richard Myrick is an architect by degree (Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan) who began his career in real estate development and architectural planning. In September of 2010 he created Mobile Cuisine Magazine to fill an information void he found when he began researching how to start a mobile hotdog cart in Chicago. Richard found that there was no central repository of mobile street food information anywhere on the internet, and with that, the idea for MCM was born. Richard also wrote the "Running a Food Truck for Dummies" available in bookstores everywhere and Amazon. You can reach out to Richard by email at: [email protected].