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Muccio: Restaurant worker tenure averages under two months

Josh Muccio · #76 Pitchline Bonanza · Mar 3, 2025 · at 20:21

Josh Muccio, host of The Pitch, discusses employee turnover in the restaurant industry while advocating for hospitality staffing startup Snapshift.

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“Like, most jobs, most positions, the average is less than two months that people stick around.”

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The claim, plainly

The average employee tenure for most positions in the restaurant industry is less than two months.

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Assessment

Josh Muccio claimed on March 3, 2025, that the average employee tenure for most positions in the restaurant industry is less than two months (approx. 60 days). Comprehensive official labor statistics and industry workforce studies contradict this figure. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Employee Tenure report (released September 26, 2024, reflecting January 2024 data), the median tenure for workers in food services and drinking places was 2.0 years (24 months), and 2.0 years for food preparation and serving related occupations. Even among specific new-hire cohort studies that focus strictly on short-term retention—such as the 7shifts workforce retention analytics—the average tenure was found to be 110 days (approx. 3.6 months). Industry turnover benchmarks from Toast and the National Restaurant Association (annual turnover rates around 74% to 80%) similarly reflect average durations far exceeding two months across the majority of positions.

BLS Employee Tenure data (September 2024) reported a median employee tenure of 2.0 years (24 months) for wage and salary workers in food services and drinking places as of January 2024.
BLS reported a median tenure of 2.0 years in January 2024 (and 1.6 years in January 2022) specifically for food preparation and serving related occupations.
A 7shifts workforce study measuring restaurant employee retention found an average tenure of 110 days (~3.6 months), well above the 60-day threshold.
Industry turnover data from Toast and the National Restaurant Association reports annual turnover rates between 73.9% and 80%, inconsistent with an average tenure of under two months.

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restaurant turnover rate average tenure 7shifts Toast BLS employee tenure "food services and drinking places" median tenure years BLS median tenure food preparation and serving occupations "average tenure" "less than two months" restaurant average tenure restaurant employee months BLS National Restaurant Association

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