{"id":2445,"date":"2010-10-13T07:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/10\/chipotle-rewards-and-retention\/"},"modified":"2010-10-13T06:55:34","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T11:55:34","slug":"chipotle-rewards-and-retention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/10\/chipotle-rewards-and-retention\/","title":{"rendered":"Chipotle Rewards And Retention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retention does not seem to be a topic of great concern in this present economy.\u00a0 However, the economy will turn and hiring will accelerate.\u00a0 When this happens (hopefully sooner rather than later), retention will become a key topic for many companies.<\/p>\n<p>In a surprising story, <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2010\/10\/06\/smallbusiness\/chipotle_started.fortune\/index.htm?section=money_smbusiness&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmagazines_fsb+%28FSB+Magazine%29\" target=\"_blank\">CNNMoney.com provides a brief description<\/a> of a unique approach Chipotle uses:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Find incentives that work.<\/strong> The best Chipotle restaurant managers get the title &#8220;restaurateur&#8221; and a $10,000 bonus for each person they hire who starts as crew and goes on to become a manager. We have 170 restaurateurs out of 1,000 managers, and the turnover rate among them is very low.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two things that work in this incentive plan are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selectmetrix.com\/Assessing_Rewards\/Status_Recognition.html\" target=\"_blank\">status and recognition reward<\/a> (\u201crestaurateur\u201d) and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selectmetrix.com\/Assessing_Rewards\/Material_Possessions.html\" target=\"_blank\">material possession reward<\/a> ($10,000).\u00a0 I suspect their turnover rate is quite low based on these two incentives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retention does not seem to be a topic of great concern in this present economy.\u00a0 However, the economy will turn and hiring will accelerate.\u00a0 When this happens (hopefully sooner rather than later), retention will become a key topic for many companies. In a surprising story, CNNMoney.com provides a brief description of a unique approach Chipotle uses: Find incentives that work. The best Chipotle restaurant managers get the title &#8220;restaurateur&#8221; and a $10,000 bonus for each person they hire who starts as crew and goes on to become a manager. We have 170 restaurateurs out of 1,000 managers, and the turnover rate among them is very low. Two things that work&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/10\/chipotle-rewards-and-retention\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,11],"tags":[1654,398,1491,1766,1653,1092],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-Dr","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2446,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions\/2446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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