Restaurants can’t find workers even amid historic unemployment

By Nic Querolo and Leslie Patton | Bloomberg
Not even the greatest surge in joblessness in 80 years is easing the fast-food industry’s years-old labor shortage.
That’s because the COVID-19 pandemic is making this year’s economic crisis very different than past downturns when restaurants offered an important lifeline for the newly unemployed. Since service-sector jobs now mean a higher chance of infection, even higher pay isn’t coaxing workers into the kitchen.
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