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Staff Exit Interview Form

Staff Exit Interview Form

Learn why hospitality staff leave — their reason and what to improve — so you cut turnover in a high-churn industry.

Description

A staff exit interview form captures why people leave — the intelligence that helps you keep the next ones. Hospitality has some of the highest turnover of any industry, and every departure that’s understood is a chance to reduce the next. Capturing a leaver’s honest reasons and what would have made them stay turns a loss into a lesson.

It captures the employee’s name and last day worked, their reason for leaving with room to specify, and a rating of their overall experience. A field for what you could have done better completes an honest, documented exit you can learn from — one departure at a time.

Customize the reasons and fields to match your business, restyle it in your brand colors, and embed it on your intranet so exit feedback is captured every time.

Form fields

Everything the Staff Exit Interview Form above collects — 7 fields, so you can see exactly what it captures before you make it your own.

Exit Interview

Employee Name
Name
Last Day Worked
Date
Reason for Leaving
Single-Select
Please specify:
Short Answer
Rate your overall experience
Scale
What could we have done better?
Long Answer
Confirmation
Multi-Select

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Template FAQs

Common questions about the Staff Exit Interview Form — what it captures, when to use it, and how to make it your own.

What is a staff exit interview form?

It’s a form departing hospitality staff complete to explain why they’re leaving. It captures their reason, experience and suggestions, giving you honest feedback to reduce turnover — the candid kind people only share once they’re on their way out.

What does the form capture?

The employee’s name and last day worked, their reason for leaving with room to specify, and a rating of their overall experience. A field for what you could have done better completes the record.

When should it be completed?

In an employee’s final days, once they’ve decided to leave and can speak freely. Capturing it before they go secures the feedback while it’s honest and specific, rather than losing their perspective the moment they walk out.

Who is this form for?

Hospitality managers and owners who want to cut turnover, and the staff moving on. It suits any restaurant, bar or venue that treats every departure as a chance to learn, in an industry where holding on to good people is a constant, costly challenge.

Why gather exit feedback in hospitality?

With turnover so high in hospitality, understanding why people leave is one of the few ways to slow it. Patterns across exits — poor scheduling, a difficult manager, no progression — point to fixable causes, so you can retain more of the staff you’ve trained.

Is this form free to use?

Yes, it’s free. Create a Fun Forms account, customize the reasons and fields to match your business, restyle it to your brand colors, and embed it on your intranet with no coding. Exit feedback then collects in one place, ready to learn from.

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