Operations
Efforts to grow the restaurant labor pool face a big challenge: Time
The industry has a number of initiatives underway to pull more potential hires into the field. But the setback of the pandemic and the need for scale are deferring the payoff.
Operations
Restaurants' labor situation has improved, but it's far from perfect
The industry has regained workers, and more operators are likely to say they’re fully staffed. But labor is more expensive. Retention remains a key stressor. And jobs have moved.