On a Wednesday afternoon, Angela Yeo, owner of Le Café Gourmet, tamped down coffee grounds as a worker manned the cash register in the small Parisian-style cafe.
Like many businesses lately, the downtown eatery is stretching to accommodate eager customers while being severely short staffed. Yeo and her husband are working with a skeleton crew of four, which isn’t enough to keep them open for their usual seven days a week and barely gets them through their opening hours.
As a result, the cafe has announced they’ll be closed on Thursdays as they work to fill staff positions. Yeo said they need at least three more staffers to work comfortably.
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A strong fourth quarter rebound in area employment is one of several positive signs of economic recovery from the pandemic-induced recession, according to the latest issue of the Coastal Empire Economic Monitor.
The Georgia Southern publication authored by Michael Toma in the university s Department of Economics, reports that 6,000 jobs were gained in the Savannah metropolitan area during the fourth quarter of 2020. The metro area includes Chatham, Bryan and Effingham Counties. The report states there is an average of 182,700 workers in the area.
An employment low of 159,000 employed workers was seen in April of 2020.Unemployment claims also fell 5.4% in the fourth quarter of 2020.