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Texas restaurants don t have enough staff to operate at 100 percent capacity Chron 3 hrs ago © LM Otero, STF / Associated Press A customer takes a carryout order past a “now hiring” sign at a restaurant in Richardson, Texas, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020. Stimulus checks, unemployment benefits, grocery stores, third party delivery services and COVID-19 vaccine availability all play a huge role in a dire issue affecting the restaurant industry in Houston and beyond: staffing shortages. “We knew that prior to the pandemic, recruitment of employees was the number one issue that kept restaurant owners awake at night,” said Joe Monastero, chief strategy and operations officer for the Texas Restaurant Association, as reported by Dallas Observer s Lauren Drewes Daniels. “In 2019, 43 percent of restaurants surveyed listed staffing as their number one problem. When we did the survey in 2020, obviously the pandemic took over the top spot, but recruitment was still number two.”

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