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Why Are Some NYC Restaurants Struggling to Find Workers? It’s Complicated

In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Samantha DiStefano closes her Mama Fox restaurant and bar for Sunday dinner and all of Monday because she can't hire enough workers to cover those shifts.

In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Samantha DiStefano closes her Mama Fox restaurant and bar for Sunday dinner and all of Monday because she can't hire enough workers to cover those shifts.

It's a similar story in Red Hook, where Susan Povich doesn't put out all the tables she is allowed at her Lobster Pound restaurant, even as the economy reopens, because she can't hire enough staff, including servers who could make $2,000 a week.

Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY Sahadi's managing director Pat Whelan, Sept. 10, 2020. In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Samantha DiStefano closes her Mama Fox restaurant and bar for Sunday dinner and all of Monday because she can't hire enough workers to cover those shifts.

It's a similar story in Red Hook, where Susan Povich doesn't [...]




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