
Restaurants are short on staff. Chipotle says raising wages helps
CNN
Want to attract employees? Try raising wages and promising a path to a promotion. For Chipotle, those tactics appear to be working.
Across the country, restaurants are struggling to hire staff as they try to return to normal and employees quit at elevated levels. In a bid to woo workers, Chipotle has increased the pay of its restaurant workers by about $2 per hour to an average of $15. The higher wages and other efforts have "worked very well," said CEO Brian Niccol during a Tuesday analyst call discussing the company's second quarter results.
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