(8 Jul 2022)
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New York - 8 July 2022
1. Various, employee of City Winery in New York City helping customers
HEADLINE: Despite jobs report NYC employer sees labor shortage
2. Various, employees waiting on tables, behind the bar
ANNOTATION: The owner of a winery and entertainment venue in New York City says he is still experiencing a 'tough time' hiring despite the most recent jobs report that showed employers added 372,000 jobs in June.
3. Waitress at table with customers
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Dorf, founder, City Winery:
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"We've slowly gotten back, but we're only up to just over a thousand people again, so we're not even back to the pre-pandemic levels. Now, we're trying to keep our our belt tight and all. But the only reason we're at, you know, 1100 or so today, not 1400, is not because we're trying to be more frugal. It's because we can't find enough people."
5. Various, employee making pizza
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Dorf, founder, City Winery:
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"We've raised the wages considerably. Our are back of house in the kitchen, our front of house are $2 to $3 above the prevailing wage. But it's more than the money. It's it's, again, what we offer in terms of a place to work. You know, can you come and watch a concert on your off night? You know, what are the family meals like? Are we giving away free lunch and dinner, you know, to staff? So all the perks."
7. Wide, City Winery brink oven, and employees
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Dorf, founder, City Winery:
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"We were generous before, but now we're promoting ourselves, you know, in that way because, yeah, we have to worry about it today. We didn't really have to worry about it before the pandemic."
8. Various, employee behind the bar helping customers
9. Employee off loading boxes from cart
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Dorf, founder, City Winery:
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"Are we generous? Are we philanthropic? You know, do we care about the environment? All of those elements are are really about how people are making decisions to come to our place over another restaurant."
11. Employees talking in the winery
12. Employees at the front desk of the winery
ANNOTATION: City Winery cut more than 1300 employees at its flagship locations and others around the country during the height of the pandemic in April 2020.
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Dorf, founder, City Winery:
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"As they say, the the the the 'S' is hitting the fan. And so we have to be very, very practical right now about making sure, you know, we we make a profit and that's balanced out against paying higher labor costs and all these other expenses that we have. So it's a tough time right now."
14. Wide, employee in the kitchen
15. Waiter walking with a tray of glasses
16. Front desk employees
STORYLINE:
The owner of a winery and entertainment venue in New York City says he is still experiencing a 'tough time' hiring despite the most recent jobs report that showed employers added 372,000 jobs in June.
"We're not even back to the pre-pandemic levels," Michael Dorf, owner of City Winery, said. "We're trying to keep our our belt tight and all, but the only reason we're at... 1100 or so today, not 1400, is not because we're trying to be more frugal. It's because we can't find enough people."
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