Welcome to Morsels, your go-to newsletter from MAJC✨, breaking down hospitality insights into bite-sized chunks.
This week is about building restaurants that can last. Not just through a busy service, but through seasons of growth, change, and pressure. Chef Missy Robbins opens Season 2 of Restaurant Ready with hard-earned leadership insight, our Season 1 highlights reflect what resonated most with operators, our HR partners at Hopdov share practical guidance on people systems, and new job description templates help teams work with more clarity from day one.
Let’s dig in.
🎧 LISTEN: Missy Robbins on the Leadership Behind Lasting Restaurants
Season 2 of Restaurant Ready opens with chef Missy Robbins, the James Beard Award–winning chef behind Lilia and Misi, and a co-founder of Misi Pasta and Grovehouse Hospitality. Across three decades, she has built admired restaurants while navigating burnout, reinvention, and growth with intention.
In this conversation with Matt Jennings and Carolyn Grillo, she talks about leadership, mentorship, identity, and the discipline of trusting your instincts.
Takeaways
- Promote from within to protect culture and continuity
- Hire for attitude and curiosity, not prestige
- Give responsibility early so leaders can grow
📹 WATCH: Restaurant Ready Season 1 Highlights
Season 1 of Restaurant Ready brought together honest voices from across the hospitality world. This short highlights reel captures the moments that mattered most, including practical insight on leadership, collaboration, curiosity, and the realities of running restaurants today.
If these moments hit home, the full conversations are waiting for you.
📖 READ: Inside MAJC’s Office Hours with Hopdov
In this month’s MAJC✨ Office Hours, our HR partners Annie Eisemann and Molly Hopper Sandrof of Hopdov walked operators through year-end realities and early 2026 preparation, including tip and overtime tracking, handbook alignment, performance conversations, and holiday labor planning.
This full recap breaks the conversation down into clear, usable guidance you can apply without overhauling everything at once. If you are thinking about how to support your team more consistently next year, this is a strong place to start.
✏️ USE: New Job Description Templates
Two new job description templates are now live in the #Templates library, starting with two foundational roles: server and line cook. These positions form the backbone of any food and beverage operation. Clear expectations here set the tone for training, feedback, and growth everywhere else.
Why these matter
- They clarify expectations from day one
- They create a roadmap for training and onboarding
- They support clearer performance conversations
- They make turnover and succession easier to manage
Use them as-is or adapt them to reflect how work actually happens in your operation.
Cheers,
Your Friends at MAJC
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