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The restaurant labor shortage: how we got here and a 2023 update

Open for Business

Labor supply and demand were roughly matched from 2000 through early 2020, according to U.S. Many workers found jobs in other industries offering more stability or benefits like health insurance. The restaurant labor shortage is still one of the industry’s biggest challenges even 3 years after the start of the pandemic.

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How to Cook a Direwolf

EATER

It was April 2017, a seventh season of the show would air in a couple of months, and a friend had come to Chicago to attend this dinner with me, not because we loved Game of Thrones — neither of us had watched for years at that point — but because the idea of a fannish dinner was exciting. This version was dyed with squid ink.)