Complete Hiring Solution for Restaurants
Everything you need to hire servers, hosts, bussers, and cooks for your Restaurant. Maximum jobs posting exposure, streamlined candidate tracking, precise assessments and one-way interviewing.
JOB POSTING
Restaurant owners get more candidates by leveraging IdealTraits job distribution network. Post to all of the top job boards like Indeed, ZipRecruiter and more.
APPLICANT TRACKING
Collaborate with your team in real-time. Organize your candidates in a hiring pipeline. Automate routine recruiting tasks and even send out digital offer letters.
PRE-HIRE ASSESSMENTS
Tested and valid assessments. Personality, cognitive and video assessments ensure you find candidates that are skilled and a perfect fit for your team’s culture.
VIDEO INTERVIEWING
Restaurant owners complete the pre-screening interview process up to 75% faster with one-way video interviews, saving valuable time for both employers and candidates.
Company Overview
Hiring Doesn’t Have to Suck
IdealTraits is an all-in-one hiring and retention platform built for restaurant operators, franchisors, and hospitality businesses. The platform combines AI-powered resume matching, university-tested DISC-based personality assessments with 92.6% validity, one-way video interviewing, SMS recruiting, automated workflows, and integrated background check capabilities.
With the addition of Employee Pulse, IdealTraits now addresses the complete staffing lifecycle, helping operators hire the right people faster and keep their top performers engaged long-term. Based in Lake Orion, Michigan, IdealTraits serves independent restaurants, QSR franchises, and multi-unit hospitality operations across the United States and Canada.
IdealTraits is an Indeed Platinum Partner, placing it in the top 2% of ATS partners on the platform.
Platform Overview
JOB POSTING
Get more candidates with Job Posting
Broadcast your jobs to all of the leading job boards like Indeed, ZipRecruiter, Google, LinkedIn, Talent.com and more. Use our optimized AI job builder or select templates to build and distribute your jobs easily.
APPLICANT TRACKING (ATS)
Collaborate, organize and automate your candidates
Collaborate with your team in real-time. Organize your candidates in a hiring pipeline. Automate routine recruiting tasks.
PRE-HIRE ASSESSMENTS
Predict job performance with assessments
Tested and valid assessments. Personality, cognitive and video assessments ensure you find candidates who are not only skilled but also a perfect fit for your team’s culture and values.
ONE-WAY VIDEO INTERVIEWING
Screen candidates faster with video interviews
Complete your pre-screening interview process up to 75% faster, saving valuable time for both employers and candidates.
More features and integrations to help you hire better, faster.
Text Recruiting
Engage candidates faster with text recruiting
Say hello to quicker candidate replies. Communicate with candidates through text in a smooth, compliant, and captivating way, enhancing candidate engagement and increasing your speed to hire.
AI RECRUITING TOOLS
AI recruiting tools that turbo-charge recruiting
Streamline your recruiting with cutting-edge AI technology. Use built in AI recruiting tools including the AI Job Description Builder and AI Resume Reading.
Career Page
Showcase your company’s job openings
Show off your company’s unique personality with a fully customized career page. From your company’s logo to its color scheme, create a career page that resonates with your brand.
SUPPORT
Live chat, email or phone support
Live chat connects you with dedicated hiring consultants, ensuring real-time answers to your questions. Our support team provides unparalleled support on your journey to ideal hires.
Client Success
Restaurant Manager Hired in Just 6 Days
Waterside Social, a two-concept independent restaurant in Lake Orion, Michigan, needed an experienced restaurant manager with no HR team to help find one. For a small independent, that is one of the hardest hires in the business.
After signing up and posting their first role, the platform began distributing, screening, and engaging candidates automatically. Within the first week, the hire was made.
Waterside Social Results
Independent, locally owned • Full service, casual dining • Lake Orion, MI
"Jason clicked with our team from day one. We went from posting the job to making an offer in under a week. For a role this important, that kind of speed and quality felt almost too good to be true."