at Bradley, comments: “Even with being restricted to outside only service, we’ve been pleasantly surprised at the level of demand we’ve seen over the last 3 weeks. This has however presented some challenges with resourcing. Like many others in our industry, as reopening approached we experienced a wave of resignations due to staff deciding to leave the industry and based on our initial expectations for outside reopening, we thought we would be ok. However, it quite quickly became apparent that we needed to recruit.
"Recruitment for chefs and full time front of house staff has proved extremely difficult. We’re seeing low numbers of applications and experiencing high levels of no shows to interviews and trial shifts. Job seekers are understandably weary of applying for jobs in the hospitality industry after the turbulence of the past 13 months, but businesses like mine are at the point where once we do reopen inside, if applicant numbers do not increase we may have to look at limiting our capacity (even further than it already is) to maintain service standards."