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Restaurant industry faces labor shortage in New York after pandemic


Brian Candee, who has been in the restaurant business for 30 years, normally gets 50 to 60 emails when he puts a help wanted ad on Craigslist. But when he was hiring for Dinh Dinh Kitchen, his new Southeast Asian-American restaurant in Bedford Hills in Westchester County, he got zero.
Zero.
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” he said. “I actually anticipated that hiring wouldn’t be too difficult because of the reduction of restaurants. I figured there would be a lot of good, skilled people looking for work.”
Others in the industry are experiencing the same thing. 
Christopher Bates owns several restaurants in the Finger Lakes wine region. But lately you can find Bates ....

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