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Adapting in a Pandemic: How Foodservice Dealers are Handling COVID-19 Challenges
When the mandates requiring restaurants to close their dining areas started pouring in, foodservice equipment and supply dealers had to decide quickly how they were going to prepare their companies for this abrupt change. Foodservice Equipment & Supplies reached out to Rapids, along with several other dealers, to learn more about how the dealer community responded.
CDC to Recommend Schools Serve Lunch in Classrooms
As schools begin to reopen, there are a lot of factors they will have to take into account to ensure the safety of their students, teachers, lunchroom personnel, and other staff. According to an article from The New York Times, one of the CDC recommendations will be that schools close their cafeterias and serve lunch in the classrooms.
Providing Resources & Support to Your Furloughed Workers
If you’ve been forced to furlough some of your staff, it’s important to make sure they know that they are still valued members of your team. This can be accomplished through regular communication and by connecting them with local and national resources that can offer them additional support.
The Top 5 Things You Need to Do to Reopen
When the time comes for your establishment to reopen, chances are you will not be able to just go back to business as usual. Not only does taking the proper precautions protect the health of your staff and customers, showing them you are taking action will help them feel safe dining and working at your establishment.
Manager/Office Staff Cleaning & Maintenance Tasks
Your management staff will need to play a key roll during this transition. Not only are they paramount in connecting employees with ownership and accounting/bankers while we schedule hours to maintain cashflow until the PPP funding kicks in, they’ll be essential for maintaining a safe work environment when staff is working together.
Back-of-the-House Staff Cleaning & Maintenance Tasks
Cleaning your back-of-the-house operations may not seem like a big deal post-COVID-19 – if you don’t have an open kitchen, the customers don’t go back there, right? Well, think of this as an opportunity to show your customers just how much sanitation and customer safety is a priority for you and your restaurant.
DEEM Winners
Our mission statement here at Rapids is to “Deliver Excellence in Every Moment.” In order to do that, we have five company values that every employee strives to emulate in every interaction with customers (both internal and external) that serve as “pillars” to our mission statement, holding it up and ensuring we can provide a superior experience. See all of our previous winners that were nominated by their coworkers!
Jenna Carstens – DEEM Winner February 2022
Delivering Excellence in Every MomentFebruary 2022Jenna Carstens Graphic Designer Marketing, Social Media, CatalogNominator: Chad Knipfer For: Being Personally Accountable "While having a deficiency in the department, this person stepped up their game and kept the...
Paul Adams – DEEM Winner January 2022
Delivering Excellence in Every MomentJanuary 2022Paul Adams Director of Marketing and E-CommerceNominator: Joe Schmitt For: Being Personally Accountable "Paul has taken on a substantial additional workload in the busiest time of the marketing department year while he...
Clay Carney – DEEM Winner December 2021
Delivering Excellence in Every MomentDecember 2021Clay Carney Inside Sales Rapids Contract and Design specialists have the capabilities, experience and resources to handle any individual or supply project from concept to implementation, and they work with the customer...
Allen Beyer – DEEM Winner November 2021
Delivering Excellence in Every Moment November 2021 Allen Beyer Project Administrator Rapids Contract and Design specialists have the capabilities, experience and resources to handle any individual or supply project from concept to implementation, and they work with...
Jason Wutzke – DEEM Winner September 2021
Delivering Excellence in Every MomentSeptember 2021Jason Wutzke Warehouse Supervisor In charge of the warehouse of the Rapids Wholesale Marion facility and its staff. He supervises the inventory, making sure items are stocked and they reach their destinations on time...
Kathy Trca – DEEM Winner July 2020
Delivering Excellence in Every MomentJuly 2020Kathy Trca Inside Sales RepresentativeNominator: Joe Schmitt For: Putting the Customer First "Kathy stepped up this week to help on many fronts. Staffing was short in the balance of this department, and Kathy worked...
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