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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWealthy people can be so tone deaf.
So Ari is interviewing Wolfgang Puck. Puck just is reopening his restaurants post pandemic and complaining he can't find enough waiters and chefs for one of his high end restaurant in Beverly Hills ( Spago).
He said he can't open for lunch because those chefs went to work for private people after he laid them off at the start of the pandemic.
He says they are now making more money and working less to which Ari Melber replies Spago is very expensive ( probably hinting Puck could pay them more), Puck laughs it off.
You would think a businessman would know the answer is pay your staff a competitive salary .
leftieNanner
(14,997 posts)The restaurant name is Spago, BTW.
drray23
(7,587 posts)JanMichael
(24,846 posts)..."gig" work that pays "Ok", and decreased immigration, there is a legitimate shortage of working people willing to work crappy jobs. It has zip to do with COVID payments.
So either pay more you sniffling fuckwad (Puck) or go out of business.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)I can imagine that experienced cooks and chefs might expect a lot more than that from Mr. Puck.
JanMichael
(24,846 posts)Boo hoo. He (pucker) can suck it.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)Or suddenly closing because they don't have enough staff for the next shift.
So they don't have much choice but to pay.
I wonder if they'll cut that right down to minimum wage again once the labor shortage is gone.
we can do it
(12,116 posts)3Hotdogs
(12,197 posts)18.50 to start, with medical, matched 401 and $75 starting bonus for showing her RonaVac card.
Two of her co-workers are Amazon refugees. "This is heaven. Fuck Bezos."
XanaDUer2
(10,327 posts)and the crack about people paid more not to work.
He did talk about people needing health insurance, though.
Rhiannon12866
(202,958 posts)As the world slowly returns back to normal, iconic chef and restaurateur Wolfgang Puck joins MSNBCs Ari Melber to discuss how the pandemic affected the restaurant industry, the changes hell make at his restaurants as a result of the coronavirus, where he thinks the industry is heading, his first restaurant Spago, and his new Disney+ documentary, Wolfgang.