Job Growth in U.S. Restaurants Remains Steady in April

Analysts feared the worst heading into the Bureau Labor of Statistics update on the U.S. economy Friday, but both restaurants and the nation’s private sector responded emphatically, indicating the sluggish job growth reported earlier in the year was nothing more than a blip on the radar. Restaurants and bars added 25,000 jobs in April, slightly lower than March’s output, but a far cry from record lows posted in February. Average hourly earnings in the leisure and hospitality sector, which includes food s