“What we are doing is kind of like, an all-hands-on-deck approach,” the company's CEO said.
“So we said, whoever wants to sign up, can sign up and just go out there and just do whatever it takes,” he said. In some cases, the employee is helping as a fry cook or on the cash register, but they’re also hosting job fairs, doing interviews and training.Raising Cane’s plans to invest almost $70 million in wage increases over the next few weeks for frontline workers, Kumaran said.
“Restaurants are still nearly 1 million jobs or about 8% below pre-pandemic, which is double national employment levels,” Vanessa Sink, a spokesperson from the National Restaurant Association, told TODAY Food. “Restaurant jobs remain below June 2019 levels in 46 states and D.C.” Sink pointed to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which showed 1.4 million restaurant job openings on the last business day of June.
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