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title: "Nation's Restaurant News: Saladworks is Retaining Valuable Employees"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/c1e6cc9f-cc5e-4390-bcdb-293ded66ff88
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/nations-restaurant-news-saladworks-is-retaining-valuable-employees-11883
category: "Fast casual"
industry: "Restaurants"
segment: "Fast casual"
topics: ["Operations"]
published: 2017-04-21T02:21:27.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T03:12:37.523Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/21a73a0c81af450f327554e8a42e574e7385.jpg
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# Nation's Restaurant News: Saladworks is Retaining Valuable Employees

**TL;DR:** Saladworks franchisee Colleen Mading retains employees by hiring for character and providing recognition and training. Mading has employees who have been with her for five to seven years.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2017-04-21. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/nations-restaurant-news-saladworks-is-retaining-valuable-employees-11883).*

## Story

In the ten years that Colleen Mading has spent as a Saladworks franchisee, she has employees who have been with her for five to seven years.

"It is really their character I am hiring," says Mading. "I look for really nice kids, kind people. I can tell pretty well if they are kind and thoughtful people. That will translate into the customer service they will give and how they will work with their co-workers."

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- Nation's Restaurant News (publication)
- Saladworks (company)
- employee retention (topic)
- hiring practices (topic)
- franchisee strategy (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/nations-restaurant-news-saladworks-is-retaining-valuable-employees-11883). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/c1e6cc9f-cc5e-4390-bcdb-293ded66ff88).