SC restaurants strained by short-staffing
SC restaurants strained by short-staffing By Chris Joseph | April 1, 2021 at 7:50 PM EDT - Updated April 2 at 2:19 PM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Restaurants in South Carolina are open for business after a year wracked by the COVID-19 Pandemic.
The key now is having people available to run them.
South Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Association Chair Bobby Williams estimated the hospitality industry (including hotels) is short 5,000 workers.
He also owns the Lizardâs Thicket chain and said he could hire 75 workers on any given day.
Williams said federal aid in the form of stimulus checks and unemployment insurance is part of the problem. â[Workers] will take a month off or two months off, so when this money runs out I think people will be coming back to work,â he said.