{"id":15582,"date":"2017-08-11T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15582"},"modified":"2017-08-11T07:29:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T11:29:16","slug":"restaurant-jobs-are-the-new-factory-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/restaurant-jobs-are-the-new-factory-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Restaurant Jobs Are The New Factory Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/081117_1124_RestaurantJ1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Derek Thompson looked at the remarkable rise of the restaurant workforce:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2017 jobs in restaurants have grown faster than those in healthcare, construction or manufacturing.<\/li>\n<li>This growth has been distributed across the nation, and is accelerating.<\/li>\n<li>Americans used to spend 25% of their food budget on restaurants in the 1950s. Today they spend 50%.<\/li>\n<li>Manufacturers used to employ three times as many people as restaurants in 1990. On current trends this will reverse by 2020.<\/li>\n<li>The charge is led by fine dining establishments that typically have a high number of staff at hand.<\/li>\n<li>Bars on the other hand serve a lot of people but employ relatively few.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not clear how great this is for the economy. The average private job pays $22.50 an hour, but for restaurants the corresponding figure is just $12.50.<\/li>\n<li>And the restaurant market may already be too saturated. Several chains are struggling to compete against all the competition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2017\/08\/restaurant-jobs-boom\/536244\/\">The Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Thompson looked at the remarkable rise of the restaurant workforce: In 2017 jobs in restaurants have grown faster than those in healthcare, construction or manufacturing. This growth has been distributed across the nation, and is accelerating. Americans used to spend 25% of their food budget on restaurants in the 1950s. Today they spend 50%. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/081117_1124_RestaurantJ1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15582"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15585,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15582\/revisions\/15585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}