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Five Years After COVID, the Restaurant Labor Market Has Yet to Recover

EATER

After a calamitous year of intermittent closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many local governments were beginning to loosen indoor dining restrictions. Hiring is a nightmare, Caroline Styne, co-founder of Lucques Group in Los Angeles, told AP in June 2021. Ive never been in a situation like this.

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Restaurant Hiring: Navigating the Labor Shortage

7 Shifts

Unemployment benefits—augmented by federal government support—are providing security that restaurants have not been able to over the past year. As we start to welcome back workers, doing things as they were before isn't going to work—especially in hiring. That all begins at the hiring level. Writing a good job description.

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Pandemic Reflections: What Lessons Has the Restaurant Industry Learned?, Part Two

Modern Restaurant Management

– Peter Kellis, CEO of TRAY Since the pandemic, it has been complicated managing through government issues, supply chain issues, manufacturing shortages of restaurant equipment and, of course, hardest of all the loss of great staff and managers who were forced to leave the hospitality industry.

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Staffing Issues Every Restaurant Owner Should Focus on Post-Pandemic

Modern Restaurant Management

The hospitality industry is the third largest employer in the United States (behind healthcare and government.) As business owners begin the process of hiring (or, in some cases, re-hiring) employees for their restaurants, bars, hotels, resorts and food services companies, here are five things to focus on: All Hands on Deck.

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Restaurant Management Masterclass

Speaker: Harlan Scott, Founder of Harlan Scott Hospitality and Industry Restaurant

Due first to necessary staffing cuts, extreme safety protocols, and now the need to rehire against outsized government stimulus, unemployment benefits and wage requirements, managing and staffing have become the most urgent conversation in restaurants today. Do your staff think they’re working for the real deal?

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Restaurant hiring declines in October

Restaurant Business

Eating and drinking places lost about 7,500 jobs in October, according to the federal government, with hiring across all industries decelerating significantly. But the unemployment rate remained at 3.9%.

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The Restaurant Industry Two Years Into COVID

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurants seeking to retain or hire management or other salaried positions faced much higher salary demands and stiff competition. It looks like, for now, the government assistance has run dry. Many local governments have dedicated “parklets” that remove curbside parking in order to make space for outdoor dining.