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As Diners Return, Restaurants Face a New Hurdle: Finding Workers Brett Anderson © Alfonso Duran for The New York Times All Day, a Miami coffee shop and restaurant, has struggled to find workers, including baristas. The business closed for all of February because of staffing shortages. MIAMI — All Day, a downtown coffee shop and restaurant, started the year on a high note. January was its busiest month since the start of the pandemic. “It was like turning on a light switch,” said Camila Ramos, an owner. Business was so good, it pushed All Day’s staff to a near-breaki...

The Chicago Tribune's Takeout Awards are a pandemic-friendly take on the annual Dining Awards. These are our top industry professionals of 2020.

Chicago Heights natives Erick and Adrena Williams worked at Ford factories, owned a limo company and now enjoy a semi-retired life year-round living in an RV and volunteering as campground hosts in the Florida panhandle.

Even Through COVID, Restaurant Family Meal Must Go On © Provided by Food & Wine Marcus Smith A family meal at Virtue restaurant. Before the COVID-19 pandemic upended our lives and devastated the restaurant industry, the crew at Virtue restaurant, in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood, shared staff meal in the same corner of the dining room every day. The ritual was so ingrained in the house culture that, on weekends, chef-owner Erick Williams or a member of the management team would ask long-lingering brunch patrons to leave, so employees could dine before dinner service without the inhibiti...

After a year of adapting, chef Erick Williams says his team is focused on sustaining the restaurant as the slow winter season brings another hurdle.