Proprietors faced closures, space restrictions and lingering uncertainty. They’re now facing a potentially crippling labor shortage as summer approaches.
We all have come to appreciate being able to welcome guests back and we re super grateful to be hosting again, Pasquarello said recently amid the usual din that greets a day shuffling family and business responsibilities. But it s a different world.
For folks like Pasquarello and his wife, Jeniphur who run three restaurants in the Philadelphia area and are opening another shortly the world has changed dramatically from the one they knew prior to March 2020.
The burdens the hospitality industry have faced eclipsed those from probably any other in the country except for education. Proprietors faced a revolving door of closures, space restrictions, sanitation regulations and a lingering air of uncertainty about what s next.