To mitigate worker shortages, some restaurants and bars are cutting hours or operating fewer days of the week. Others have been forced to temporarily close after workers become ill.
. The Alaska hospitality industry typically leans heavily on international workers, university students and non-resident workers, but the pandemic and other issues have drastically reduced their numbers, Oates said.
“You don’t see the people coming back, especially during seasonal increases in the volume like we used to in the past. It just they’re not coming back. They’re not even filling out applications to come back,” McCarthy said.Alaskans are getting COVID-19 in record numbers as some treatments’ scarcity prioritizes those most at riskMcCarthy said his workforce hasn’t been impacted by a big upswing in COVID-19 cases yet. A few employees became sick after holiday travels.
Burnett has cut operation hours at the Midtown location, too. The rapidly growing COVID-19 case counts in Anchorage just add to the staffing concerns, he said. Lewis said that as the waves of COVID-19 ebb and flow, so does the impact on his businesses, with some experiencing drastic reductions“Restaurants are not out of the woods yet, by any means,” Lewis said.
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