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Restaurant workersAcross the country get sick like a third wave ofCOVID-19 [Feminine shots.Chipotle Is a company that struggled to maintain open pitches as a point in business creates labor shortages.
The famous Fast Food String has temporarily closed or limit hours to several places. Although only a small number of restaurants in Chipotle has been touched, CEO Brian Niccol predicts staff shortages will become "even more difficult" in the coming months. (In touch:9 restaurant chains that have closed hundreds of locations this summer.)
"When employees start getting down with COVID to these high percentages, it makes all the staff much more difficult than six months ago," says NiccolBloomberg. "The months to come, I think, will be even more difficult from a point of view of endowment."
However, NicCol pointed out that the rate of infections between chipotle workers was still "lower than the national average significantly".
Laurie Schalow, Director of Chipotle Corporate Affairs and Food Security,confirmedRestaurant Business Whether the channel has struggled to keep staff and operational restaurants in some areas where neighboring location employees were not available to cover sick colleagues.
Employee health problems have affected other large chains in addition to chipotle. A Chicago McDonald's has been accused ofpress the staff to work despite being infected. Meanwhile, the franchisee of an Applebee citedStaffing struggles as one of the reasons for bankruptcy.
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