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June 4, 2021 4:36 PM Elenee Dao
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SPOKANE, Wash. – Businesses are struggling to find workers right now. So, the Spokane Hospitality Association is trying to make the process even easier for businesses and job seekers.
On Monday and Tuesday, a speed dating style job fair will take place at the Wonder Building. More than 15 businesses and restaurants will be set up, ready to talk to job seekers and hopefully eventually end up in job offers.
It’s been rough for businesses finding workers these last few months.
Joey Gates is normally working behind the scenes as a chief operating officer for The Goodwin Group, which owns eight restaurants in Spokane. For the last week, Gates has been working as a server at Remedy, a restaurant they own.
Reason 56: Take a vax selfie, rake in the Instagram likes.
We ve spent a year trapped in a nightmare. We ve seen a half-million people die in the U.S. We ve watched the places we ve loved boarded up and bankrupted. We ve gone crazy inside locked down, shut in and fed up. And we ve watched the world go crazy outside a soaring murder rate, riots, insurrection and Instagram videos of people screaming at Walmart greeters about masks. The good news is this is the kind of nightmare you can pinch yourself and wake up from. All we have to do is tap our heels together three times, poke your arm once or twice, and we can all go home again. The problem is that to truly banish the nightmare to stop the deaths, free the businesses, get rid of the masks everyone has to join in the ritual. Whether because of fear, misinformation or simple procrastination, a huge chunk of the Inland Northwest hasn t been vacc
Get a free hotdog with a vaccine at Avista Stadium Tuesday
Spokane Hospitality Coalition and SRHD will team up to get more people vaccinated. They want to reopen restaurants to full capacity as quickly as possible. Author: Grace Arnis (KREM) Updated: 9:45 AM PDT May 11, 2021
Get a free hot dog while getting a vaccine at Avista Stadium from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday.
The Spokane Hospitality Coalition and Spokane Regional Health District are teaming to administer the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. They are calling the events #Save509 Vaccination Days. The Hospitality coalition says this is to keep restaurants open. They said this will help everything open to 100 percent capacity faster.
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May 6, 2021 3:13 PM Connor Sarles
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SPOKANE, Wash. Many businesses have tried to add incentives to getting a vaccine a free donut, a beer, and now, free pizza.
Albertsons, Safeway and David’s Pizza teamed up with the Spokane Hospitality Coalition for a vaccination clinic at the pizza joint anyone who works in hospitality, their friends, family members, foodies and others could stop by and get the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
If you get the shot, you get a slice of pizza.
This is part of the coalition’s push, along with the City of Spokane and Washington Department of Health, to get people vaccinated and keep counties from moving back into previous phases; a move which could be a death sentence for many local businesses.
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he hospitality industry keeps taking punches as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, with few signs of improvement, but that hasn’t stopped dozens of local business owners from giving back to the community even as their own livelihoods struggle. Beacon Hill Events and Catering is spearheading a new collaborative effort to feed families served by area nonprofits while supporting restaurant and catering businesses across Spokane. The Care to Nourish program launched in late December and currently involves seven restaurants and caterers that are also