Where the evidence lives
Use guest reviews and post-visit surveys. Hospitality customers tell you exactly where the experience broke.
Twofold Index for Hospitality & food
Guests tell you exactly where the experience broke, and they tell everyone else too. Front-of-house and back-of-house often describe the brand differently, and seasonality moves both the team and the customer score.
What the gap looks like here
Use guest reviews and post-visit surveys. Hospitality customers tell you exactly where the experience broke.
Front-of-house and back-of-house often describe the brand differently. Include both.
Anchor this step on the moments staff control without a manager: the welcome, the recovery after a mistake, the goodbye.
Seasonality moves both scores, so compare against the same period last year where you can.
Try it
Drag the Customer and Team markers or tap the bars. The plan below is already tailored to hospitality & food; add your company size to tailor it further.
Where customers and your team sit
Drag the Customer and Team markers, or tap any bar below, and watch the reading rewrite itself.
Your five team attributes, weakest first
Dashed line marks the customer level: 7.1 out of 10. Team perception is the average of the five bars.
Tailor the plan to your company
Owners, time estimates and examples change with company size and industry. The four steps and their order follow your reading.
Your 30-day plan (first two of four steps), for a hospitality & food company
Bring each manager the customer evidence (reviews, NPS comments, recent wins) and one prompt: where are we already strong, and how do we repeat it on purpose?
In hospitality & food: Use guest reviews and post-visit surveys. Hospitality customers tell you exactly where the experience broke.
You'll know it worked when: every manager can name one customer win the team under-recognized.
Why it works: Gallup attributes about 70% of the variance in team engagement to the manager. When belief lags behind customer reality, the manager is the fastest route to closing it.
Ask each person, unprompted, what the brand promises customers. Compare the answers and agree one plain-language sentence.
In hospitality & food: Front-of-house and back-of-house often describe the brand differently. Include both.
You'll know it worked when: five people give a recognizably similar answer when asked cold.
Why it works: Gallup’s first engagement question is whether people know what is expected of them. A brand promise everyone can repeat is the customer-facing version of that clarity.
The research behind this reading: Gallup’s recent global workplace research finds only about one in five employees engaged at work, and identifies managers as the biggest lever on that number. Source: Gallup, State of the Global Workplace.
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