May 10, 2021
From left to right: Mia Van de Water, MS (photo courtesy of Mia Van de Water), Alisha Blackwell-Calvert (photo courtesy of Alisha Blackwell-Calvert), and Bobby Stuckey, MS (photo by Mike Thurk).
As recently as January, the outlook for restaurants seemed bleak. While this impacted all restaurant jobs, it was particularly dismal for the sommelier a position that is not universal across restaurants and is often considered expendable when operators are forced to reduce labor costs.
Yet as summer approaches, the situation is far more optimistic. Restaurants have reopened in every state, and in many major markets, new sommelier job openings are posted daily.
Nearly 100,000 restaurant workers lost their jobs in Colorado since the pandemic began. The Colorado Restaurant Association says many are reluctant to return, for many reasons. Some want to stay on unemployment while others don’t feel comfortable interacting with people yet. Restaurants are enticing applicants with their benefits.
Frasca has been offering benefits for years. Now that s helping them entice new employees to join their restaurants. For a restaurant group to have insurance, a 4% matching 401k, those are benefits that most restaurants don’t have so that has helped us, said Stuckey.
Linda Hampsten Fox owns the Bindery in Denver. She also offers benefits and has now moved some hourly employees to be salaried.
Patrons and chefs celebrate return of Denver Restaurant Week
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DENVER Reservations are filling up fast as Denver Restaurant Week gets underway.
Inside the kitchen at Il Posto, Chef and Owner Andrea Frizzi showed up to work early to make a carrot top pesto for one of the dishes featured on his three-course menu. He could barely contain his excitement knowing his restaurant was booked for the weekend. The energy, itâs super good for the city. And not only for the city, for the people who work in the restaurant, said Frizzi.
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