Restaurateurs put in orders for Texas Legislature - Dallas Business Journal

, according to estimates from the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. TRA suggests those funds get reinvested into the economy in places like infrastructure to allow businesses to continue to thrive.Workforce sustainability

The TRA has a bipartisan ask to secure additional investment into its push-start program that trains high school students for the hospitality industry. The organization wants to ensure that every high school that wants to incorporate this program has the resources.to experience growth in 2022, with many leaving the industry altogether.Employee well-being and health is tied to affordability, according to the presentation. One overarching question is access to affordable child care.

Another issue to consider is health care. The TRA is partnering with a telehealth organization to bring employees and their family members this type of care for less than $10 a month, according to Knight.Texas is filled with food deserts and areas that do not have a grocery store, but may have a restaurant. One way to get people better food access would be to incorporate programs with local food banks and include restaurants in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.

One issue that the state legislative session cannot tackle is immigration. The TRA has been vocal about immigration reform as it's an economic development issue, Streufert said. El Paso's TRA chapter chair met with President Joe Biden during his visit to the city and impressed upon him the importance of this issue to the hospitality industry, she added.

There is an employee shortage of 10 million workers in physically demanding industries, which include hospitality, agriculture, construction and others,"The hospitality [sector] was employing a very large number of immigrants, 30%- 40% of the labor force in that sector was foreign-born. And so you’re missing a lot of them, and potentially that is a big impact,"

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