NHS Western Isles says it may have to provide ready meals for patients, due to chronic shortages of kitchen staff at an island hospital. The health board said it had advertised three catering jobs at Uist and Barra Hospital 20 times in the past four months without any success. The vacancy rate in the hospital’s catering department is at 46%
Continue reading Leading AI company Bear Robotics is launching Servi, an innovative new robot set to revolutionise the food service industry. Servi helps hospitality and care home businesses, assisting staff by utilizing AI and autonomous robot technology to serve drinks and food and clear tables. This, in turn, allows waiting staff and care home employees to focus on spending quality time and
Continue reading Staff shortages At the same time, the hospitality sector is facing an unprecedented shortage of staff. Fewer international workers, and the ‘great resignation’ of 2021 have led to hundreds of thousands of vacancies for hospitality workers. So, what can hospitality businesses do? What theycan’t do is change the global economy or the weather. But they can at least minimise
Continue reading Nearly half of hospitality operators are cutting trading hours or capacity in order to cope with ongoing staff shortages. The loss of business resulting from reduced trading has cost the industry £21b in lost revenue and an estimated £5b tax loss for the Exchequer. A joint survey conducted by UKHospitality, the British Institute of Innkeeping, and the British Beer and
Continue reading Restaurants are opening up and people have started going out to grab a bite at their favourite places. The sector is recovering from the pains of the Covid-19 pandemic, however, all is not well within the industry as it is struggling to find staff to be able to function properly. Experts and industry players attribute the shortage to reasons induced
Continue reading The demand for experienced restaurant staff has put salaries on a fast boil – with pay skyrocketing as much as 75% and one recently hired chef scoring a $400,000 deal, Side Dish can report.The salaries are soaring thanks in large part to a labor shortage and rising demand to dine out after pandemic lockdowns, according to interviews with chefs, restaurant
Continue reading Businesses are having to turn down bookings as employee numbers remain low following the pandemic and Brexit “We used to be able to do 26 (people for a Christmas party booking) but we absolutely can’t do that now. The max we can do now is 10,” said the York restaurant’s owner, Clarrie O’Callaghan. The shortage means that anyone who called
Continue reading Restaurants are booming in Britain, but the chronic shortage of chefs and other staff is threatening the industry It is almost impossible to turn on the television without seeing a celebrity chef putting aspiring young cooks through their paces. But leaders in the restaurant industry have warned it is in the depths of a recruitment crisis that could force some
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 Seattle’s Cook Shortage Could Affect Your Next Restaurant Tab In the six weeks that Parker Butterworth spent as a line cook at stylish Capitol Hill restaurant Stateside, he lost count of how many crispy duck rolls—a signature dish—he made. But he was acutely aware of how little money he brought home. The 30-year-old political consultant entered the culinary arts program
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