Too few cooks in the kitchen: Victoria faces chef shortage The shortage of chefs in Victoria is so bad one restaurant is shutting down its operations for the entire month of August. North 48, a local restaurant known for its eclectic menu, has not been able to find replacements for three line cooks that had to leave Victoria. Chef and
Continue reading HOW A STAFF SHORTAGE IS FORCING RESTAURANTS TO GET CREATIVE The owner of Taco Bamba Taqueria peered out from the kitchen at the line of customers snaking around the corner at his latest spot in a suburban Virginia strip mall, and felt terror. Who was going to cook, serve and clean up for all these people? “The cooks had left,”
Continue reading Help Wanted: Shortage of employees choking growth of local economy Glen Cook’s moving company has been a going concern in Windsor for three generations, but now he can’t find new employees to expand. Cook said he would hire six to 10 workers and add new trucks if he could find the help. “I have to turn down about 30 per
Continue reading Why is a good cook so hard to find these days in L.A Rumors of a labor crisis in the Los Angeles restaurant industry began about four years ago as a grumble — whispering at the farmers market, the occasional kvetching on social media — but as more and more ads for line cooks go unanswered and scheduled interviews bail
Continue reading LISTEN: What’s the future for the restaurant industry in B.C. as chef shortage continues With ever-advancing technologies and artificial intelligence creeping into the workforce, job security for current and future generations has never been more worrying. CKNW’s Future of Work series focuses on how British Columbia’s job market is going to evolve and how to help workers get the best possible
Continue reading Worker shortage forces restaurants to get creative The owner of Taco Bamba Taqueria peered out from the kitchen at the line of customers snaking around the corner at his latest spot in a suburban Virginia strip mall, and felt terror. Who was going to cook, serve and clean up for all these people? “The cooks had left,” overwhelmed by the
Continue reading What employees? We don’t have them anymore’: Fast food places can’t find workers to flip burgers A quarter-century ago, there were 56 teenagers in the labour force for every “limited service” restaurant — that is, the kind where you order at the counter. Today, there are less than half as many, which is a reflection both of teenagers’ decreasing workforce
Continue reading The great British chef shortage: why eating out is under threat3 It was, says chef patron Alexis Gauthier, “not the last resort”, but almost. Last September, he needed to fill three positions at his central London restaurant, Gauthier Soho: a pastry chef; a chef de partie, to head up one of the stations in the kitchen; and a sommelier. Gauthier has
Continue reading During the lunch rush at The Boss on Main, there are about 100 people seated in the booths eating and ordering food. In the kitchen everyone is working full-tilt including cook Shuji Chen. Chen’s specialty is preparing the kinds of Hong Kong-style Chinese food that regulars like. He’s an expert in using a commercial wok. It’s much more challenging to use
Continue reading Help wanted: P.E.I. trying to stir up more cooks Tourism industry will try again with program to train young people as cooks and dishwashers P.E.I.’s tourism industry is working hard to find more cooks for Island restaurants this summer, from new recruiting videos on social media to free training. “People just aren’t lining up to fill cook positions,” said Kathy
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