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12 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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In a brief conversational exchange, the speakers discuss how their restaurant, located in a town of about 200 residents, does not face the widespread labor shortage affecting many businesses. They explain that they draw employees from nearby larger towns and cities within a half‑hour drive, effectively expanding their labor market. Over the past six to nine months they have built a waiting list of applicants, allowing them to continuously staff a bench of workers categorized as A‑players, B‑players, and C‑players. This proactive recruitment approach results in a strong, readily available workforce despite broader industry challenges.

You know, like they say, there's a. As a labor shortage. Right. Well, I can tell you I'm in a town, 200 people, right. I am what we call right out in the. Not completely sticks, but I'm in a really pretty close to the
sticks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're pretty close.
And we have some bigger towns around us and we capture those for the guests and some cities that like within half an hour drive. So that's where our market is. We love this livestock. We do not have a labor problem here. For our business.
We used to. But
within the last and probably in the last six, six, nine months. Yeah. We've had a waiting list of people that want to come and work for us. So we are just constantly stacking the bench. So our business is just full of A players and B players. C players.
I'm sorry, go down. We call it legal sabotage. Yeah. Ruin someone else's restaurant. Not doing this is definitely what we want. Yeah.