the dining room at little fox photo by izaiah johnson
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By Matt Sorrell // May 5, 2021
With St. Louis city and county green-lighting a return to full capacity and the public raring to get back out and hit the restaurant scene, the issue of securing enough staff to make it all happen is at the front of every restaurateur’s mind.
Scrolling through social media posts from area restaurants begging for applicants shows how desperate restaurant owners are to rebuild their staff and the extreme measures some are taking to do so. Some places are bumping up pay rates or offering signing bonuses. A dozen Central West End restaurants, including Yellowbelly, Pi Pizzeria, Salt + Smoke and Drunken Fish, even banded together for a neighborhood job fair, held on Monday, May 3, in an effort to attract applicants.