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After a busy start to 2021, Portland’s TIQA Mediterranean restaurant closed in April for three weeks due to a staffing shortage reflecting an industry-wide hiring crunch brought on by the pandemic.
“The options were really horrible,” says Deen Haleem, who owns and operates the restaurant inside the Courtyard by Marriott with his wife, Carol Mitchell. “We could have kept our restaurant open, which would have led to really overworking the existing kitchen staff as well as bad service and long wait times.”
Instead, they’re using the time to deep clean and update menus.
Two weeks into the closure, the kitchen staff was up to eight, including two senior chefs as the search for a sous chef, baker and a third line cook continued. Frustrated about filling vacancies, Haleem says that interview no-shows are common and even received a message from one applicant who responded to a job ad with upfront demands about starting salary, scheduling and paid leave.
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Owner of Jess It Up London, Irina Diva, with her wares on Broadway Market
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A Broadway Market trader has launched an online platform for independent and sustainable local businesses.
Owner of Jess It Up London, Irina Diva, wants to reunite her fellow market traders after creating Broadway Market Online last month, which allows traders to continue operating during lockdown.
She said: “It got to the point when I realised that we definitely need some sort of online platform as a collective. So, I sat down and built a website by watching YouTube tutorials.
remembering John Kelly
John Kelly with Kim Jenkins, former reporter Ivy Potter and sales representative Mike Bell.
Portsmouth Daily Times Publisher Hope Comer and John Kelly riding a Ferris Wheel at the Scioto County Fair.
Whether in person or over the phone, customers of the
Portsmouth Daily Times could always rely on John Kelly to get the job done.
Last week, the
Portsmouth Daily Times received the news we never wanted to hear about our friend and co-worker. Kelly, who had worked at the
Daily Times for several years in circulation, had passed on. A resident of New Boston, Ohio, Kelly passed away Feb. 27, 2021, at SOMC Hospice in Portsmouth.