Milwaukee-area operators seek help through hiring events
Nearly 30 East Side establishments to hold job fair this weekend
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Bars and restaurants in Milwaukee’s East Side neighborhoods are making a collective push to address an industry-wide obstacle: hiring workers.
Almost 30 establishments will participate in the Greater East Side Restaurant & Bar Job Fair, taking place this weekend at Casablanca restaurant on Brady Street.
The event is being put on by the Brady Street, East Side, and Downer Avenue Business Improvement Districts to help operators staff up as business returns to pre-pandemic levels.
“We’re excited to see people starting to come out again, but these business owners are struggling to find staff to meet operational demands,” executive directors Rachel Taylor (Brady Street BID) and Liz Brodek (East Side and Downer Ave BIDs) said in a news release. “Our jobs are to help our stakeholders, and this seemed like a natura
Prof. Pinkerton s Christmas Caravan will bring holiday music to Milwaukee s east side Dec. 18
MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) The East Side and Downer Avenue Business Improvement Districts are teaming up again to host Professor Pinkerton s Christmas Caravan throughout the business districts and surrounding neighborhoods this Friday, Dec. 18.
The caravan will start at Thermo Fisher at 4 p.m., according to a news release, and travel throughout the east side for the next 2-3 hours, making short stops for people to enjoy the holiday music and decked out trailer.
The release says Prof. Pinkerton Xyloma, known to many Milwaukeeans for his Dead Man s Carnival, has assembled his Irrelevant Orchestra for several nights of merriment throughout the city.