Evanston Now
Evanston restaurants looking for employees Help wanted is too mild a way to put things for restaurants in Evanston, and around the nation. Help needed now, desperately! is far more accurate.
“Help needed now, desperately!” is far more accurate.
“It’s ugly out there, it really is,” says Diana Hamann, owner of the Wine Goddess in the Main/Dempster Mile district. Hamann says despite paying competitive wages for servers ($14/hour plus tips), “there is a lack of people who want to work.”
The Wine Goddess is part of the Custer Oasis, where the streets at Custer and Main are closed for outdoor dining for her shop and two restaurants.