Originally Posted by
JBord
In my area, we're generally not seeing staffing issues at restaurants now. Occasionally, but nothing like it was before. I haven't felt that service is any worse than it was pre-COVID. Still hit and miss overall and fine at better restaurants. We don't eat much fast food though, so that may be a different story
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It's not just fast food but sitdown dining of any calibre. Have some friends (all retired, some with no descendants and some on fairly-generous pensions, one of which is U.N.) who like and do fine/upscale (for here) dining fairly regularly and they're all disappointed with recent service quality, and food quality at times, given that it's gotten much more expensive. Perhaps a difference of where you are but barrel bottoms have apparently been scraped here several times and heat has even been applied to extract the last of the dregs.