'It's like a war,' San Diego restaurateur says of struggle to find workers
Print What if all of the county’s restaurants reopened their doors following a year-long pandemic that forced massive layoffs and hardly anyone showed up? To work. It’s more than a hypothetical riddle. As drinking and dining venues across San Diego County — and the nation — get the green light to more widely welcome back the customers they’ve been craving since COVID-19 first shut them down almost 14 months ago, they’ve been confronting a near-crisis labor shortage. While it initially caught employers off guard, it shouldn’t be all that surprising. Advertisement San Diego is e...