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Seafood restaurants innovate as US foodservice woes continue

August 24, 2020 โ€” The losses for U.S restaurant and foodservice industry continue to mount as COVID-19-mandated closures persist and the travel market remains depressed.

Airport foodservice operator HMSHost is laying off at least 3,000 employees by mid-October in response to its coronavirus-related struggles, Restaurant Business reported.

Read the full story at Seafood Source

MASSACHUSETTS: As shutdownโ€™s effects worsen, locals say โ€˜Itโ€™s wrongโ€™

January 18, 2019 โ€” On the Outer Cape there are 23 U.S. Coast Guard members, at least eight Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees and around 60 Cape Cod National Seashore workers not receiving paychecks due to the partial shutdown of the federal government.

And itโ€™s not just federal employees who are missing their paychecks. Contract workers, like those who are rebuilding Herring Coveโ€™s north parking lot in Provincetown, are also affected.

โ€œItโ€™s wrong,โ€ said Arthur โ€œButchโ€ Lisenby, the Provincetown Municipal Airport manager, of the TSA employees who, because they are deemed โ€œessential,โ€ are now working without compensation. โ€œThey are trying to do their jobs and not getting paid. Thatโ€™s not fair. They have a nice attitude. Iโ€™m kind of surprised. I donโ€™t know if I could do the same thing. They are doing their job and dealing with it the best they can.โ€

The TSA employees themselves were not allowed to speak to the press, according to an employee at the Provincetown airport.

Read the full story at Wicked Local Wellfleet

 

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