U.S. Restaurants and Bars Added Over 20,000 Jobs in November
Skift Take
While hiring slowed within the larger leisure and hospitality category in the past month, restaurants and bars were an outlier. In that area, operators can't find staff fast enough.
In November, the U.S. added 155,000 jobs and the national unemployment rate remained steady at 3.7 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly jobs report.
The news confirms what restaurant operators have been saying all year: there's a war for talent underway, and it's increasingly difficult for employers in the industry to manage labor costs while also ensuring that they are retaining skilled staff. Shake Shack CEO Randy Garutti noted on the company's most recent earnings call that labor was probably always going to be the company's greatest challenge, and the battle to find staff is o
