People have flocked back to restaurants in the nation's capital as the COVID pandemic eases -- but not to work as cooks. And restaurant owners say that's making it harder to keep their doors open as tourists return to Washington's monuments and museums.
About 59% of D.C.-area restaurateurs say they do not have enough kitchen employees to support existing customer demand, according to the most recent member survey from the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington. They ranked staffing among their top concerns alongside rising labor costs, inflation and gun violence.
Stratford University, which operated a culinary school in Falls Church, Virginia, closed in December and filed for bankruptcy last month. That followed the 2018 closure of L’Academie de Cuisine, a cooking school in Gaithersburg, Maryland, that also shuttered due to insufficient enrollment. Capitol Hill-based Sunnyside Restaurant Group owns 13 Good Stuff Eatery; Santa Rosa Taqueria; and We, The Pizza locations primarily situated in Maryland, Virginia and the District. Sunnyside owner Micheline Mendelsohn said the food production lines at her Good Stuff Eatery locations are currently operating with five cooks each, well below the usual eight or nine.
Culinary schools still operating in the area have reported sharp drops in the number of people training to work as cooks on kitchen lines. It’s also “gotten harder to keep people in one place” after placing her graduates in local jobs, Ms. Kopsidas said. The former chef said she is working with local restaurant owners to enforce a strict limit of work hours to 40 hours a week, provide full health insurance benefits, offer sick pay and be more flexible about allowing for paid time off.
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