Starkville restaurants are getting ready for the fall

STARKVILLE, Miss. (WCBI)- In college sports, it’s often said that championships are won in the off-season. Training and conditioning build stronger teams. Some business owners in college towns are also running with that idea.

For college towns, the summer months can mean a slow down in business.

But some area businesses see opportunities.

“We start hiring and training during the summer because it’s a little bit slower. We can get new people in, and we can train them so that when they get here on August the1st. When the students arrive and so forth they’re ready to go because if you wait until August the 1st to start hiring and training it’s too late because business is here you need to be ready,” said Veranda owner Jay Yates.

Even though it’s usually considered the off-season, Campus events like orientation and Summer camps give new hires a chance to get some reps.

“Summer is different now in Starkville. Used to summer was it was just really dead; it’s just different because now I have so many more people,” said Yates.

Alisa Bullock just finished her training. Now, she’s gearing up for the busy season.

“I am very excited because I got the opportunity to come in now and get that training so that it wouldn’t be as crazy to pick up on whenever we are busy so having that really has helped, and it will help the rest of the team,” said Bullock.

While the new hires are warming up, veteran servers like Jailyn Montgomery see the summer months as a cool down.

“So when I started I was in over my head. I never served before at all, and it was like I said the summertime, so things moved a lot just slower and then I could notice everything pick up slowly. As the fall, just we transition into the fall and the further we got into the fall the crazier it got. Definitely needed the slow months because the volume really picked up during the fall time it took a lot of practice to get the hang of everything,” said Montgomery

Yates says with basketball and baseball; the busy months continue past the fall into the spring. Things only start to ease up after May Graduation, and the baseball postseason.