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Savannah restaurant groups waiting to see what impact they will feel from pandemic-related unemployment benefits stopping By Sean Evans | May 13, 2021 at 5:21 PM EDT - Updated May 14 at 1:26 AM SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - In recent months weâve heard from Savannahâs tourism and hospitality industry about a workforce shortage, with some pointing out pandemic-related unemployment benefits as being one of the root causes. WTOC talked with restaurant groups, owners and local tourism industry leaders about what effect they think this halt in federal unemployment benefits will have in the...
On a Wednesday afternoon, Angela Yeo, owner of Le Café Gourmet, tamped down coffee grounds as a worker manned the cash register in the small Parisian-style cafe. Like many businesses lately, the downtown eatery is stretching to accommodate eager customers while being severely short staffed. Yeo and her husband are working with a skeleton crew of four, which isn’t enough to keep them open for their usual seven days a week — and barely gets them through their opening hours. As a result, the cafe has announced they’ll be closed on Thursdays as they work to fill staff positions. Yeo ...