{"id":443418,"date":"2021-04-22T19:06:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T23:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=443418"},"modified":"2021-04-22T19:06:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T23:06:06","slug":"restaurants-face-worker-shortages-as-pandemic-subsides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/restaurants-face-worker-shortages-as-pandemic-subsides\/","title":{"rendered":"Restaurants face worker shortages as pandemic subsides"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frestaurants-face-worker-shortages-as-pandemic-subsides%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=443418&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2402206\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2402206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wearing facemasks have lunch outside of a boarded Baja Fresh restaurant on Hollywood Boulevard amid the Coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by VALERIE MACON\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 4:00 PM PT \u2013 Thursday, April 22, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Restaurants all around the country have struggled to hire workers with customers flooding back as coronavirus restrictions start to subside. As dining rooms begin to reopen and customers return in mass, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wect.com\/2021\/03\/31\/restaurants-struggle-find-workers-pandemic-eases\/\">show<\/a>, restaurant owners are finding it difficult to get servers, hosts and cooks to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re printing the applications, setting up the interviews, having managers coming in on their days off to do the interviews,\u201d John Lulgjuaj, the owner of Oceanside Beach Bar &amp; Grill, said. \u201cAnd 80 percent of them don\u2019t show up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lack of staff is hurting earnings even though many have more than enough customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore COVID, we were open from 11 in the morning to 3 in the morning, 7 days a week,\u201d Slice of Life Pizzeria owner Ray Worrell said. \u201cRight now we\u2019re just open 11 to 11. And we have to keep it at that because we just don\u2019t have the staff to stay open.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many are attributing the shortage to increased hiring across the industry, which resulted in all restaurants competing for the same decreased group of workers.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, many workers switched industries in order to have an income during the pandemic and now have no incentive to return.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey went to [a] construction site or some other jobs, which pay more,\u201d Texas restaurant owner Zee Aziz said.<\/p>\n<p>However, other theories have been floated as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been programs, obviously the PPP program,\u201d Wilmington Downtown Inc. CEO Holly Childs said. \u201cAnd there have been other programs that have tried to kind of fix the situation, but you kind of wonder too, are the unemployment and continuing that keeping people from applying for the jobs?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This issue, caused in part by unmonitored federal government unemployment benefits, has led to businesses getting creative to encourage more workers to accept new positions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of our restaurants and hotels are offering some incentives and some competitive rates for folks to come back,\u201d Lynne Hernandez, South Florida Regional Director of the Restaurant &amp; Lodging Association, noted.<\/p>\n<p>Fast food chains have encountered deficits as well. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mcdonalds-subway-struggle-to-find-workers-forcing-changes-2021-4\">reports<\/a>, one McDonald\u2019s in Florida has given applicants $50 just for showing up to the interview.<\/p>\n<p>Other restaurants are offering signing bonuses upwards of $2,000 for employees who stay on for 90 days. Even so, the uphill battle to fill out restaurant staff continues.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sen-lankford-says-dems-are-stretching-meaning-of-infrastructure\/\">Sen. Lankford Says Dems Are Stretching Meaning Of Infrastructure<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People wearing facemasks have lunch outside of a boarded Baja Fresh restaurant on Hollywood Boulevard amid the Coronavirus pandemic. 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