Bluestone Lane CEO, Portugal Dining Limits To Be Lifted, Japan Restaurant Aid Needed, Potentially Permanent Digital Changes, Staff Poached In Texas For Higher Pay
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This cafe chain owner who pays $15 an hour says his commitment to treating staff fairly helped him avoid the labor shortage (Business Insider) A cafe chain owner said he's largely dodged the effects of the US labor shortage. He has hired 400 employees at a time when many other chains have been struggling.
Portugal to Lift Limits at Restaurants, Allow Nightclubs to Open (Bloomberg) Portugal said it will remove limits on the size of groups that can be seated at restaurants from Oct. 1 as it takes the next step in a plan to gradually lift restrictions that were put in place to contain the coronavirus pandemic.
Japan pub-chain leader urges new PM to help eateries hit by COVID-19 (Reuters) Miki Watanabe, the chief executive of Japanese pub chain Watami, has urgent advice for the next prime minister: provide fair compensation for restaurants impacted by the COVID-19 restrictions on eateries.
Three Super-Sized Digital Changes To The Restaurant Industry That Could Be Here To Stay (Forbes) “As a technology supplier that offers a quality, risk and compliance solution to restaurant brands, my company has witnessed the industry’s digital transformation firsthand. From my perspective, here are three of the most universal advances that restaurants have made, all of which could shape up to become the industry’s new normal”
The owner of a Texas taco restaurant that closed down in the labor shortage says larger companies poached his staff with $5,000 pay rises (Business Insider) Paul Horton, the owner of Taco Crush in McKinney, about 30 miles north of Dallas, said that larger companies had poached some of his staff by offering much higher wages, or benefits."I know we lost half a dozen that were offered an extra $5,000 a year to go somewhere else, or even just benefits – being a small, independent business, I can't compete with wages on bigger companies, let alone offer them any kind of benefits.”