Save Our Sauce: Connecting people with jobs in restaurant industry
The leisure and hospitality industry leads the way with a 5.3% quit rate. Workers are leaving for industries with more flexibility and less stress. Author: Brandon Simmons Updated: 6:42 PM EDT July 1, 2021
WOODMERE, Ohio Restaurants continue to find themselves short-staffed, a new problem that many have had to deal with since asking employees to leave when the COVID-19 pandemic first started.
“I couldn’t believe things were going to actually close. Then one night, I laid off 80+ employees,” said Mike Frazin, who runs two Original Pancake House locations in Greater Cleveland. “We felt bad because we were taking away peoples livelihoods and we were afraid because we thought we’d lose our business.