With vaccinations increasingly available, millions of Americans are going out to eat again. Restaurants nationwide are having trouble accommodating all their new customers because of an employee shortage.
Restaurants face worker shortages as pandemic subsides
People wearing facemasks have lunch outside of a boarded Baja Fresh restaurant on Hollywood Boulevard amid the Coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)
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UPDATED 4:00 PM PT – Thursday, April 22, 2021
Restaurants all around the country have struggled to hire workers with customers flooding back as coronavirus restrictions start to subside. As dining rooms begin to reopen and customers return in mass, reports show, restaurant owners are finding it difficult to get servers, hosts and cooks to do the same.
“We’re printing the applications, setting up the interviews, having managers coming in on their days off to do the interviews,” John Lulgjuaj, the owner of Oceanside Beach Bar & Grill, said. “And 80 percent of them don’t show up.”