D.C. has so many new restaurants that competition for qualified workers is heating up, WAMU reports.
Seven percent of the District's workforce, WAMU says, work in restaurants. That's up from last year, and with new restaurants opening all the time, it's getting harder and harder to find servers, waiters and busboys.
"When I was at Bistro Bis," says Woodward Table general manager Omar Hishmeh, "you'd put an ad in Craiglist for a waiter and within a few hours you'd have 60, 70 responses. It's not the same now. Trying to find one or two good waiters or good bartenders is very, very difficult."
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