{"id":124510,"date":"2021-07-02T00:22:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T07:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/exhausted-restaurants-turn-to-technology-to-address-worker-shortages"},"modified":"2021-07-02T00:22:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T07:22:31","slug":"exhausted-restaurants-turn-to-technology-to-address-worker-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/exhausted-restaurants-turn-to-technology-to-address-worker-shortages","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Exhausted\u2019 restaurants turn to technology to address worker shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exhausted-restaurants-turn-to-technology-to-address-worker-shortages2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are just exhausted.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As COVID-19 restrictions loosen across the United States, the hospitality industry \u2014 which was walloped by the pandemic \u2014 is experiencing a new challenge: too few workers available to address soaring demand for dining out.<\/p>\n<p>A furious debate is underway over what\u2019s behind the labor shortage, which is prompting restaurants to adapt by modernizing with kiosks and digital ordering. Many are biting the bullet and <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/why-some-think-labor-crunch-isnt-just-about-pay-200404058.html\" class=\"\">ponying up more in compensation<\/a> just to attract employees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of us are paying over time,\u201d Laurie Thomas, executive director of the Golden State Restaurant Association, said in an interview with Yahoo Finance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPeople are just exhausted.\u201d As COVID-19 restrictions loosen across the United States, the hospitality industry \u2014 which was walloped by the pandemic \u2014 is experiencing a new challenge: too few workers available to address soaring demand for dining out. A furious debate is underway over what\u2019s behind the labor shortage, which is prompting restaurants to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}