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Here is a list of restaurants that closed in Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties in 2022.

Brian Candee, who has been in the restaurant business for 30 years, normally gets 50 to 60 emails when he puts a help wanted ad on Craigslist. But when he was hiring for Dinh Dinh Kitchen, his new Southeast Asian-American restaurant in Bedford Hills in Westchester County, he got zero. Zero. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” he said. “I actually anticipated that hiring wouldn’t be too difficult — because of the reduction of restaurants. I figured there would be a lot of good, skil...

Restaurant owners across New York state say an unheard-of labor shortage has stymied their ability to dig themselves out of the financial shortfalls that have come as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. And it comes at a time when warmer weather and the freedom that comes with vaccines are making diners, cooped up all winter, more eager than ever to go out to eat. When they do, these diners will likely see the effects of the workforce shortage, including adapted menus, hard-to-find reserv...