Cancun, QR. The National Chamber of the Restaurant and Spiced Food Industry (Canirac) local reports a general deficit of personnel of 33% in all affiliated establishments, that is, both in the north and in the south of the state.
In interview, Marcy Bezaleel Pachecopresident of the organization, explained that they have been suffering from this problem since last year, although at that time it was explained by the effects of the pandemic and sanitary restrictions.
However, even in the middle of this year, this personnel deficit remains, despite the fact that health protocols have been made more flexible.
The Chamber has resorted to Caribbean University to request that recent graduates be linked in the first instance with a restaurant company rather than with a hotel, to cover this lack of trained workers in the gastronomic sector.
The phenomenon of lack of staff is experienced from small restaurants to large chains such as Alsea, which is having an impact on the ratings that users give to establishments through platforms such as Trip Advisor, he explained.
However, he assured that the problem is not so serious as to put at risk the operation of the establishments during the next summer season, although they will reinforce the strategies for the recruitment of missing personnel.
In interview, Raphael Aguirrepresident of Mera Group –a restaurant consortium that operates food and beverages and airports in five countries– explained that in cancun the company has a deficit of at least 300 workers.
Given this, he announced that they have begun an aggressive strategy of recruiting personnel through a mobile unit in the parking lot of the Soriana supermarket, located at the intersection of Kabah Avenue with Andrés Quintana Roo, in the center of the city of Cancún.
The consortium, which operates more than 15 restaurants at the International Airport of cancunreports a deficit of at least 300 employees in this city.
However, the businessman assured that it is a problem that has existed for several months, but that it is much more pronounced in restaurants that operate in airports in the United States.
“In the American Union many people prefer to receive the unemployment aid check that the government grants them before occupying themselves in one of the many vacant places in the restaurants that operate in the Los Angeles Airport, “explained the businessman.