This is a common story among Ohio’s servers and bartenders.
Tips, shifts disappear as restaurant patrons continue to stay home, switch to carryout
More than a year after the first cases of coronavirus were identified in Ohio, patrons are still staying home or switching to carryout, which means less gratuity for front-of-house workers like bartenders and servers, and fewer shifts for back-of-house workers like dishwashers and cooks. Others are still catching up after extended periods of unemployment.
Restaurant workers describe living a more frugal lifestyle, and in many cases their depressed wages or late-arriving unemployment checks meant important bills went unpaid.