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My anecdata: the McDonald's in my area still hasn't opened up its in-restaurant seating because they can't staff it. Drive-through only.

• symfoniq 4y ago
  Restaurants in my area are still having staffing issues, too, to the point that some are completely closed on random days they'd normally be open.
  • moate 4y ago
    As someone who spent a decade burning and bleeding for the restaurant industry: Fucking great. If there's one sector that needs its entire economic plan blown up and rebooted, it's restaurants. The fact that labor has seemingly collectively walked away from restaurants en masse has been one of the best things about the pandemic. Of course it's complicated (What about the ability for people to source food from restaurants, what about other economic factors that go into it, poor sad owners who invested all their money, went belly up, and now have to act like the labor they abused, "not all restaurants", etc) but the food service industry is one of the most vile, exploitative sectors out there and the schadenfreude over it getting a swift kick in the teeth has been massive.
  • Consultant32452 4y ago
    Some of the fast food stores in my area still have their dining areas closed due to short staffing.
• shapefrog 4y ago
  Alternate theory: they havent opend the in-restaurant seating becuase they make more money keeping it closed and operating drive-through (and delivery) only.
  • bombcar 4y ago
    The only real difference is cleaning staff on the in-restaurant seating and maybe one more employee for the register (though many seem to be slow enough to have one person doing double-duty). Out here in the sticks everything is basically back to normal, though one restaurant that was already on the edge appears to be slowly folding.