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Anecdotally, there has been a striking increase in the amount of new service workers in training at restaurants and coffee shops in Portland. There was a very a
by n8cpdx 4y ago
Anecdotally, there has been a striking increase in the amount of new service workers in training at restaurants and coffee shops in Portland. There was a very acute sense of labor shortage for the last few years, and that has gone.
I’m hoping that we might see coffee shops (other than Dutch Bros) open past 3 PM someday. Enough operators to keep the buses, trains, ambulances, and 911 call center working are probably higher priority though; those orgs have started reporting better hiring results recently as well.
- jjulius 4y ago>Anecdotally, there has been a striking increase in the amount of new service workers in training at restaurants and coffee shops in Portland. Continuing on that anecdote, I've read two reviews of restaurants in the Portland metro area in the past week where the customer left a negative review because they were being served by a new, untrained server (each time, the restaurant responded that their experienced server was sick that day). There's definitely a bump in hiring happening.
- hedora 4y agoAlso anecdotally: We went to $CASUAL_DINING_MEGACHAIN recently. The food was much better than I remembered, but they were so understaffed the greeter was also working the kitchen. It took 20 minutes to be seated (due to the greeter stand being unmanned; there were plenty of tables), and about 2 hours to eat and pay. I suspect people are still being very picky about where they work.
- bombcar 4y agoI can 100% confirm this - every hotel is incredibly understaffed in all the "working-class" departments; places that used to have an entire overnight banquets crew to set for the next morning are down to one guy and a dog, and the dog never shows up.