Study: U.S. consumers see drop in restaurant,
retail quality due to labor shortage
Washington Times,
by
Sean Salai
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
2/3/2022 5:07:05 PM
Poor service. Limited menus and inventories. Shorter hours of operation. The pandemic’s labor shortage has plagued restaurants, retailers and their customers, a new consumer survey from Premise, a global marketing data collector. And the near-term prognosis is none too cheery, says Wall Street trader Charles Mizrahi. “Shortage of labor is a temporary problem because demand is decreasing as the economy slows,” said Mr. Mizrahi, founder of Alpha Investor. “Businesses will soon not be worrying about too few employees, but having too few customers or sales.” Premise reported this week that 61% of U.S. consumers noted a decline in service quality at restaurants, 76% cited reduced hours of operations
Reply 1 - Posted by:
minuteman 2/3/2022 5:28:35 PM (No. 1060555)
So true OP.
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Another Bumbling Brandon moment, what a guy, the CCP installed patient.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
padiva 2/3/2022 5:46:05 PM (No. 1060565)
I work for a big box retail store. When people complain about the lack of salespeople or limited hours, I tell them that we are hiring. (They can be part of the solution.)
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 2/3/2022 5:53:52 PM (No. 1060571)
Restaruants are struggling to keep staff. I make it a point to generously tip wait staff in the restaurants where I eat.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
SALady 2/3/2022 5:54:42 PM (No. 1060572)
The Demon-Rats decided it was a great idea to close down our economy and pay people to stay home. So many of those people who used to do all the minimum wage jobs have decided that life on the welfare plantation is so much easier. So they will probably never go back to work -- which makes them the most dependable Demon-Rat constituency out there.
Anybody else see a lot of cause and effect there?!?!?!?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
cor-vet 2/3/2022 5:54:58 PM (No. 1060573)
I realize that there are labor problems, but apparently, out here in rural America, people still want to work. Service may be a tad slower, but it's not a real hardship to sit back with your friends, have a couple of adult beverages and have a conversation. Of course, our governor has cut off the extra unemployment, and that could be why our restaurants are ramping up. I wonder if the biggest problems, the ones we read about here, are in the liberal run cities, where the lying stream media hang out.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
skacmar 2/3/2022 5:59:39 PM (No. 1060577)
Several restaurants near my home have sign posted on the door asking customers to please be patient, they are short staffed because people no longer want to work. Most people are understanding of this. In retail locations, lack of help and lack of merchandise is a problem leading to closing early or just closing for a day or two during the week so that the staff they do have can have a day off. Unfortunately, the empty shelves combined with shortened hours are making customers fairly grumpy in some stores and they take it out on the unfortunate employee who cannot perform magic and get what they want.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
stablemoney 2/3/2022 6:03:34 PM (No. 1060579)
They raised staff salaries, inflation added to the price of the food. Then Biden and the Governors dictated that restaurants could only allow entry to the vaccinated. The Restaurant Assn is now reporting a 50% reduction in customers. I no longer eat out. I don't want to deal with it. That and the other customers have become unbearable, loud on their cellphones, addressing other customers with their medical advice.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 2/3/2022 6:19:13 PM (No. 1060592)
At least 1 strip mall in our area is leaving signs on the buildings of shuttered restaurants and other businesses. When driving by it doesn't look like a ghost town. Seems like a Democrat way of 'fixing' the problem.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MDConservative 2/3/2022 6:23:05 PM (No. 1060598)
Good management can fix many of these "problems". Don't want to irritate customers by the delays caused by lack of staff? Start by reducing the number of tables. Happy customers are repeat customers. And the wait staff may hang around longer and perform better with fewer tables demanding service. They may even see better tips. If I see a restaurant apologizing in advance for delays or other shortcomings, I go elsewhere. The inability to attract and maintain staff is THEIR problem. Don't make it MY problem. Good management can overcome much of this "labor shortage".
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
joew9 2/3/2022 7:49:53 PM (No. 1060648)
Pizza and most other fast food doesn't taste good anymore. The flavors are just dull. Apples from the grocery store are mealy and tasteless no matter the type. My last two bags have been fed to the squirrels and they complained. Perhaps the apples are just too long after picking. But I just can't imagine what they are doing wrong on pizza to make it so tasteless.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bad-hair 2/3/2022 8:14:38 PM (No. 1060665)
Give people a couple of years to stay home and cook and a lot of them get really good at it. there go your customers.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Ribicon 2/3/2022 9:34:27 PM (No. 1060701)
I notice that portion sizes keep decreasing ("hidden inflation") while prices keep rising, to the point where it's not particularly worthwhile or enjoyable to dine out anymore. No one likes paying more for less.
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Lies! Everything is fine at the exclusive five-star places where Jen Psaki and her Beautiful People 0.1% parasite class compatriots dine. And if the rest of us can't afford lifestyles where price is no object, well, that's our own fault. And if we were fired for not Pfizering, well, that's our fault too.