Good staff for gastronomy? Hard to find at the moment. The secondment of a restaurateur who runs an inn in Felixdorf in Lower Austria can hardly be explained otherwise. He even gives out a “bonus” now…
Of course only in a figurative sense, but Gabriel Durand is at his wits’ end. And in his desperation, the restorer came up with something unusual. On Facebook, he offered a commission of 200 euros for anyone who puts him in touch with a waiter or waitress. “It’s a pure disaster,” he explained to the “Krone” on Thursday morning. “We just can’t find staff. We can barely manage orders (the inn also offers catering, among other things), but we can’t take them because we simply don’t have staff.”
A reader reporter from “Krone” had told the story: in recent months there were only two applicants. It failed due to communication difficulties due to the language barrier. Whether you are a professional or not, it doesn’t matter to the restorer, as he emphasizes, as long as there is commitment and will.
“Probably also related to fear”
Nevertheless, there is a break in applicants, but why is that? On the one hand, probably due to the retraining in the course of the Corona crisis, as a result of which many people have made the transition from gastronomy. “But it probably also has to do with fear,” says Durand. “People no longer feel safe as a job in the hospitality industry.”
However, his unusual call on Facebook continued to have an effect: “Since then we have had eleven calls and the first applicants are already arriving in the afternoon”, says the restaurateur hopefully.
Source: Krone
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