Restaurant Jobs Way Down in September — Or Were They?
Skift Take
The September jobs report looks scary at first blush, down 100,000 in the food service industry. Before sounding the alarms, look at the context surrounding the report itself; it may not be so bad.
Restaurant labor is a hot topic, from minimum wage laws to no-tipping policies to touch screens and automation. Last week, amid a Bureau of Labor Statistics report that U.S. jobs were down in September by 33,000 — and some 100,000 food service jobs were cut. Even given the major hurricanes that hit the country last month, that’s a huge decline for a single industry. Bloomberg dug deeper into the numbers, and came up with one plausible explan
