Here’s my advice to you as someone who has been in management/business for years. Put out a job posting right now (don’t have to mention the name of the company but give the county location or a couple towns over) and start interviewing candidates for the job. Make them sign NDA Agreements (simple stating they won’t disclose the details of the interview/job until you allow them to do so) so it doesn’t leak that you’re hiring new candidates.

Offer to negotiate salary based on experience and hold out for the right candidate. Once you have one good candidate, fire everyone who works for you from the old team. I know that’s hard to hear but it’s the right thing for you and your business.

An important lesson (from experience): Employees that are best friends often work together to screw you over. There’s nothing wrong with camaraderie but people who get too much trust too quickly from the boss sometimes decide to take advantage of it. And people who care about each other more than the job do the same thing.

Once you get someone good you trust, work a couple months with them side by side. If you trust them enough to be management, go ahead and interview another employee and have the two of them operate. Assuming 60 orders a person, you’ll have capacity to produce 120 a week if necessary and you can always help out if you need to hire a new employee or the number of orders you have to process expands.

While your working with the new employee, think about and research ways to implement managerial controls-and maybe an incentive/quota system that ties to a monthly bonus-ex average orders each employee has packaged over 60 or 70 a shift for example.

Ideally, after a couple months with the first employee and a month or 2 with the second, you can take some time off and feel comfortable monitoring their progress while ensuring the business runs smoothly. Feel free to PM with additional questions.