Desperate To Find More Staff, Some Fast Food Restaurants Recruiting Customers

CHICAGO (CBS) — Would you similar fries with that? Or however astir a job? A accelerated nutrient concatenation is pitching not conscionable fried chicken, but employment opportunities to each lawsuit they serve.

Morning Insider Tim McNicholas shows america immoderate unsocial approaches to a dire labour shortage.

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When restaurants each implicit municipality are looking for workers, it’s clip to deliberation extracurricular the to-go box.

“We’re starting astatine $15 an hour. How overmuch bash you marque astatine your occupation close now?” Colby Ledet, a supervisor astatine nationalist accelerated nutrient concatenation Raising Cane’s, asked a customer.

Raising Cane’s employees are approaching customers astatine their Naperville, Illinois eating country and drive-thru, asking them to apply, and adjacent handing retired “We’re Hiring” cards.

Ledet is 1 of astir 100 Dallas-based employees who person been temporarily relocated to assistance with recruitment efforts. He’s connected the firm staff, but a mates weeks agone helium hopped down the registry truthful the Naperville eating country could enactment unfastened connected a Friday night.

“We’re truthful understaffed that astir areas we can’t unfastened the eating room, oregon we’re conscionable drive-thru only, oregon we person to adjacent earlier than our mean concern hours,” Ledet said.

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Raising Cane’s said they’ve hired astir 4,000 radical crossed the state since aboriginal October, and they’re inactive looking to prosecute astir 6,000 more.

They’re not alone. Just down the street, Panera Bread encourages radical to substance them astir occupation opportunities.

That’s besides a method Raising Cane’s uses.

Lizette Torres is simply a cosmetology pupil who conscionable started astatine Raising Cane’s this week.

“My person works here, truthful she was telling maine astir the job, due to the fact that I request a job, and I was like, ‘I request a dependable job. I request thing consistent,’” she said.

“We are retired present doing astir thing and everything we tin deliberation of,” Ledet said of the accelerated nutrient chain’s recruitment efforts.

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Every Raising Cane’s lawsuit passes a array adjacent the counter—a large reddish advertisement for the hiring efforts, each earlier they adjacent bid their chickenhearted fingers.