Hospitality HR Consulting
for Scaling Restaurants
Expert HR Consulting for Restaurants
and Hospitality Teams
HR Consulting
for Growing Hospitality Teams
Expert HR Consulting for
Hospitality Businesses and Teams
Hospitality HR Strategy
and Compliance Support
Hospitality Begins with People
HR Consulting
for Hospitality Businesses
HR That Serves You
Hospitality HR Support
for Growing Teams
Your people are
our priority
HR Consulting for Hospitality Businesses
Your People Are Our Priority
HR Consulting for Restaurants
and Hospitality Businesses
HR Consulting for Hospitality
Owners and Leadership Teams

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Running a restaurant is hard. Managing hiring, payroll, compliance, and employee issues shouldn’t make it harder. Empowered Hospitality provides specialized hospitality HR consulting services for restaurants and hospitality businesses, helping you build stronger teams, reduce risk, and grow with confidence. From hospitality recruiting and talent acquisition to fractional HR leadership, payroll, and compliance, we can manage your HR - so you can focus on running your business. — See our 5-Star Google reviews

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Hospitality HR Support Built for Operators

We work with restaurants and hospitality brands, so we’re familiar with the realities of tipped wage structures, turnover, wage‑and‑hour risk, multi‑unit growth, seasonal staffing, and everything in between. Whether you're looking for fully outsourced restaurant HR support, executive search support, interim administrative support, or strategic HR leadership, our team adjusts to fit your business.

We provide complete HR for restaurants — recruiting, onboarding, payroll consulting services, compliance, employee relations, and more.
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Our hospitality HR consultants extend your internal capacity with strategic guidance, HR audit services, and hands-on support.
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Our fractional human resources support combined with hospitality executive search can support your HR function today and scale as your business expands.
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We provide complete HR for restaurants — recruiting, onboarding, payroll consulting services, compliance, employee relations, and more.
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Our hospitality HR consultants extend your internal capacity with strategic guidance, HR audit services, and hands-on support.
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Our fractional human resources support combined with hospitality executive search can support your HR function today and scale as your business expands.
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Full-Service Hospitality HR & Recruiting Solutions

As a trusted hospitality recruiting agency and HR consulting firm, we support every stage of the employee lifecycle. Our services include: 

Our experienced leaders can help you develop a smart HR strategy, optimize or help you grow your current HR team, or seamlessly integrate an acquisition. Hospitality business are adaptable. Shouldn't your HR strategy adapt, too?
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HOW WE EMPOWER YOUR TEAM

  • Support for new openings
  • Technology optimization
  • Growth through acquisition
  • Organizational design
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We help optimize your HR tasks so you can dedicate more time and energy to what matters – inspiring your team and leading your business.
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HOW WE EMPOWER YOUR TEAM

  • Payroll processing
  • Benefits administration
  • HR administration
  • Annual reporting
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Our HR experts tackle compliance head-on, from detailed audits and regulatory updates to trainings and on-call guidance. Our experienced team and thorough discovery process will identify weaknesses in your business before they become major problems.
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HOW WE EMPOWER YOUR TEAM

  • Compliance audits
  • Proactive guidance
  • Regulatory updates
  • Sexual harassment prevention
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Our mission is to measure engagement, influence its root causes, and boost your team's productivity.
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HOW WE EMPOWER YOUR TEAM

  • Employee sentiment surveys
  • Employee recognition
  • Performance management
  • Leadership development
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When it comes to hospitality recruiting, our talent team delivers. We help our clients find the best talent in the market, and provide candidates access to highly selective opportunities.
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HOW WE EMPOWER YOUR TEAM

  • Executive search
  • Recruiting management
  • Talent acquisition strategy
  • New restaurant openings
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An effective employee relations strategy will not only mitigate your company’s legal risk, it will also foster a culture of transparency, safety and respect that enables your employees to thrive.
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HOW WE EMPOWER YOUR TEAM

  • Employee hotline
  • Coaching & counseling
  • Complaint handling & investigations
  • Labor relations
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Our experienced leaders can help you develop a smart HR strategy, optimize or help you grow your current HR team, or seamlessly integrate an acquisition. Hospitality business are adaptable. Shouldn't your HR strategy adapt, too?
Learn More

HOW WE EMPOWER YOUR TEAM

  • Support for new openings
  • Technology optimization
  • Growth through acquisition
  • Organizational design
We help optimize your HR tasks so you can dedicate more time and energy to what matters – inspiring your team and leading your business.
Learn More

HOW WE EMPOWER YOUR TEAM

  • Payroll processing
  • Benefits administration
  • HR administration
  • Annual reporting
Our HR experts tackle compliance head-on, from detailed audits and regulatory updates to trainings and on-call guidance. Our experienced team and thorough discovery process will identify weaknesses in your business before they become major problems.
Learn More

HOW WE EMPOWER YOUR TEAM

  • Compliance audits
  • Proactive guidance
  • Regulatory updates
  • Sexual harassment prevention
Our mission is to measure engagement, influence its root causes, and boost your team's productivity.
Learn More

HOW WE EMPOWER YOUR TEAM

  • Employee sentiment surveys
  • Employee recognition
  • Performance management
  • Leadership development
When it comes to hospitality recruiting, our talent team delivers. We help our clients find the best talent in the market, and provide candidates access to highly selective opportunities.
Learn More

HOW WE EMPOWER YOUR TEAM

  • Executive search
  • Recruiting management
  • Talent acquisition strategy
  • New restaurant openings
An effective employee relations strategy will not only mitigate your company’s legal risk, it will also foster a culture of transparency, safety and respect that enables your employees to thrive.
Learn More

HOW WE EMPOWER YOUR TEAM

  • Employee hotline
  • Coaching & counseling
  • Complaint handling & investigations
  • Labor relations

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The E|H Difference

Industry-Specific Expertise

We are not general HR consultants. We specialize in hospitality human resources and understand the real challenges operators face daily.

Everyone at Empowered Hospitality has been enthusiastic and refreshingly friendly. Their level of knowledge, flexibility and sophistication puts me at ease.

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Kate Sanzin,

Director of Operations, Sullivan Street Bakery

The entire E|H team is made up of visionaries, strategists and forward thinkers. It is a pleasure working with them as they consistently exceed expectations. E|H is an asset no company should be without.

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Todd Millman,

Owner, Blue Radish & Bay Market Kitchen

Hiring Empowered Hospitality was the best decision we made. I highly recommend E|H to anyone looking for an HR professional to build a department from the ground up, or to maintain an existing one.

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Andrew Denno,

Chief Operating Officer, Patisserie Chanson

Flexible, Scalable Support

No long-term contracts. No bloated retainers. Our outsourced hospitality HR support grows and adapts with your business.

Thank goodness for Empowered Hospitality. It's reassuring to know that they’re on top of our HR—from small staff issues to bigger things like labor department procedural changes.

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Jason Hicks,

Owner, Jones Wood Foundry

Empowered Hospitality helped us navigate, prioritize and most importantly address our HR needs across a variety of verticals in a way that was consistent with our brand sensibilities and culture.

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Johnny Hill,

Board Member, The Grey Dog

Working with Empowered has given us the ability to operate with fewer question marks, all while creating additional bandwidth for me as an operator.

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Josh Ku,

Owner, Win Son Restaurant & Win Son Bakery

Team-Based Coverage

Vacations, unexpected departures, rapid growth — our team structure ensures you’re always supported.

The service provided by Empowered Hospitality is an invaluable resource to ensure staff retention, limit our liability, and provide peace of mind to our leaders. I can't imagine running our organization without them!

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Kate Inserra,

Service Director, Skopos Hospitality Group

We chose Empowered Hospitality for hospitality hiring because they clearly knew how to get results. We were able to scale up a couple of our teams quickly even in this tough hiring market.

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Alex Lorton,

Co-Founder, Cater2.me

From recruiting and policy-building to on and off-boarding and PEO implementation, E|H helped us elevate to the next level and did a great job integrating with our team.

—

Jaclyn Pascocello,

Chief Operating Officer, Spacious

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Success Stories

Our team is your team

We believe strong restaurants are built on strong people systems. Whether we’re leading executive search, managing compliance, or serving as your long-term HR partner, we show up like an extension of your leadership team. You’ll get practical, experienced guidance — not corporate theory.

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Let’s Build a Smarter People Strategy

If you’re looking for outsourced hospitality HR support, restaurant executive search, payroll consulting services, fractional HR leadership, or a hospitality recruiting partner, we’re ready to help. Let’s talk about your people!