RESTAURANTS CLOSE
SHORTAGE OF STAFF
Many restaurants in Wellington have closed down in the last halfyear, although business was satis,factory. The root of the trouble is staff shortage. While the Government has declared the industry essential., it has at the same time created forms of service for women in uniform, and such employment has attracted many girls, both in the city and from the country, who were formerly waitresses and assistants in restaurants and tea rooms.
“This has become a very serious problem,” said the manager of one restaurant, “for now, more than at any other time, there are many people to be fed who have no other placese to eat in except the public eating-houses. Every place ia the town is paying well over the award rates of pay, and yet they cannot keep up the numerical strength of the staff. As a result, hours and service have had to be cut down. There never has been such a state of things in the trade in Wellington.”
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13801, 19 November 1942, Page 3
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