The two years of the pandemic have badly affected the travel sector. Although tourism is picking up slowly and steadily, business owners are trying their best to resuscitate and give their enterprises a new lease of life. Many restaurants and cafes are also hiring new talent, giving incentives to attract the best people to work for them. One café in Australia is grabbing headlines for the huge pay package it is offering to prospective employees. 'The Good Cartel' café in Broome, west Australia has posted a job opening for baristas and beverage makers with salaries going upto AUD 92,030 or nearly Rs. 51 lakhs per annum.
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The opening by the Australian café was posted on a popular job-seeking website as well as on Facebook. "Good Cartel has a reputation for retaining excellent staff who receive excellent pay," reads the description. They only had two basic criteria for hiring - attitude and teamwork, and minimum skills requirement. A minimum working period of 6 months would be viewed favourably. They further added that they would train a skills deficit provided the employee's attitude was correct.
The owner of the Good Cartel café, Jack Kain, said to Perth Now paying higher salaries had been a strategy of business, but after the pandemic it had become a necessity. "It's a better than usual strategy now with the labour shortage, which has now fallen well and truly off the cliff," admitted Kain. When you combine this with the rental shortage and all of the various COVID restrictions incoming it's going to be challenging," he added.
Restaurant staff is being offered huge incentives. Photo: iStock
This labour crisis in the restaurant and hospitality sector is not unique to Australia. In 2021, US restaurants had also faced a similar crisis of labour shortage due to the pandemic. A restaurant chain in the country had also diverted their senior staff to kitchen in these dire times.
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