With cases of COVID-19, influenza and other viruses on the rise, Bay Area restaurants are once again grappling with staffing shortages and coming up with creative ways to encourage workers to get their booster shots.
"I think that just about every flu season, something comes through a restaurant or it comes through a place of business and it just gets a lot of people," says Nick Sepulvado, General Manager of Jack Holder's Restaurant in San Jose.
"The difference is when you talk to people over the phone when they're calling out sick you can really hear immediately, 'Oh, you're calling out sick,'" he said."We would rather have people be preventatively safe than have to miss time for work," said Laurie Thomas, Executive Director of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association.
"We wanted to proactively tell everybody, 'Hey, if you can show me proof of your bivalent vaccine, which we know we can help you get at Walgreens, anywhere in the city right now for free, we'll pay you guys $100 as an employee, just a straight up bonus in the next pay period,'" Thomas told KPIX 5.
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