Restaurant Staffing

[Descant]

Originally Posted by John Mercier

Does it seem like the camps are opening earlier now than back then?

A lot of variables here. More islands have electricity, earlier ice-out, but the marinas aren't doing much better at getting boats ready--they have staff issues too. More mainland camps are year round as noted above. But this thread is about restaurant staffing and a lot of that, for summer season, still relies on students and the school calendars. Double whammy there: students nowadays want to leave mid -August for sports teams, band, etc and many of them want a week's vacation instead of working through Labor Day. That makes them less desirable hires. "Back ten" students worked to make money to pay bills. Now thy just take out loans without collateral, so there's a different perspective on long term finances. Nobody "Works their way through school" anymore.

[fatlazyless]

Effective July 1, 2024 ..... http://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact...sa-restaurants ...... managers and assistant managers in restaurants will now qualify for time & 1/2 over 40 hrs/wk if they handle a food or a beverage.

[John Mercier]

You brought up that decades ago, when opening the camps that everyone would eat out. Maybe that skews the perception of how many patrons are eating out on Memorial Day weekend. Maybe when opening camps earlier, the data would be more comparable to looking a week or more before Memorial Day weekend?

I know that we have tried to pull some from the restaurant business into our staff... and have had some success. Our two youngest employees at this location come from that profession.