Hospitality industry struggling to fill posts amid worker turnover

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“There’s so many people hiring, you have to be tenacious,” said Aaron Selinkoff, director of operations at Mad Dog’s Restaurant Group. Story by waylon_atx.

Credit:More than 80 restaurants and hotels set up booths for a jobs fair at the Alamodome on Tuesday, but the number of recruiters outnumbered job seekers. As a result, raffle prizes intended for workers went instead to the exhibitors.

Many have been nice, she said, but she’s on guard. “Sometimes these restaurants put on a front when they’re hiring, but when you actually get to the work environment, it’s like, ‘what did I sign up for?’” Others are simply switching to other, higher-paying restaurant jobs. Lucas Bradbury, founder of fast-food chain Project Pollo,Texas restaurant and hotel workers made an average hourly wage of $16.22, an 11.5% pay bump over last year, according to March numbers from the BLS. While that outpaces inflation, it remains one of theEmilee Jones speaks to individuals about job opportunities with Allied Universal Events during the Visit San Antonio job fair at the Alamodome Tuesday.

La Gloria, the San Antonio restaurant group behind the pink margarita trucks seen across town, was at the job fair, too. The group has also been expanding since the beginning of the pandemic, but has strained to find staffing.

 

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waylon_atx Also, employees should never have to pay for parking. That’s just thievery.

waylon_atx If businesses can’t pay a living wage then their model is broken. The working class is tired of being indentured servants. This should be an article about how jobs are ripping off employees and undervaluing their contributions to the success of those businesses.

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