Should companies retain workers or let them go? Changes to the traditional career model in the restaurant trade

Virtually no other branch is older, more colourful or more international than the restaurant trade, and this diversity is also reflected in the employment histories of those who work in it. These are frequently characterised by several changes of employer and by moves from place to place or from country to country. Various indicators suggest that a model of internal company employment histories is being established alongside this traditional “nomadic” model. This article uses the occupation of restaurant specialist as an example in order to show what is behind this development and how human resources managers are thinking about.