Six or seven will be no-shows and you’ll maybe get one person to show up.” We’ll call back 30 of them to see if we can schedule a face-to-face job interview, and of those, we’ll get through to maybe eight. “Here’s how it works: We’ll get over 100 applications for one position. “There’s definitely some truth to people becoming jaded and lazy (in the pandemic),” says Guerra. Despite falling unemployment numbers in Florida new applicants aren’t calling him back, and new hires simply aren’t showing up for work. Hospitality experts argue the drought in employees can be explained with three theories: fear of returning to closed spaces during a pandemic, ex-employees leaving the restaurant world for good, and the ease of collecting unemployment benefits.Įmi Guerra, whose Breakwater Hospitality Group operates the Wharf in downtown Fort Lauderdale, thinks it’s the last one that’s driving the staff shortages. “It’s bad times out there and this gives workers extra money they wouldn’t have otherwise.” Walker admits he probably would have kept scrolling past Bodega had the cash incentive not caught his eye. “I was like, ‘Uh, I could use $400.’ Let’s do it,” says Walker.

The 23-year-old student needed a reliable job with flexible hours since moving from New York to Fort Lauderdale in January to finish his GED.

Andrew Walker could hardly turn down Bodega Taqueria’s tantalizing offer to become a prep cook and collect hundreds in cash after spotting the ad on Facebook.

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