Xplore Restaurant Group (Credit: Greg Jones) HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE, Ark. - A restaurant has found an innovative way to recruit younger employees by offering them a way to better balance their school and work life.Xplore Restaurant Group, with multiple locations throughout Hot Springs Village, Arkansas, is paying its high school workers to devote an hour of their shifts to doing their homework.
The idea came from Drake Bielert, a 26-year-old executive chef at one of the restaurants, who received complaints from dishwashers that their grades were slipping because of their work schedule and they may have to cut back on their hours.Bielert offered the employees an hour on the clock to do their schoolwork. "So it just gives them just that one hour.