- July 27, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
There is a new tension in the air of local restaurants since Santa Fe loosened COVID-19 restrictions.
While in some ways, the massive influx of patrons is hopeful and encouraging, to restaurant workers it has meant more shifts, longer hours, never-ending busy nights — and Santa Fe customers seem more impatient and much less forgiving.
I was recently tipped $1 on a $200 tab because “one of the steaks was cooked rare plus instead of medium rare.”
Santa Fe feels closer to normal after more than a year of calamity, and that is a reason to celebrate. However, no matter how back to normal Santa Fe feels, the truth is a worldwide pandemic has occurred, and no one is or ever will be the same.
Perhaps this fact plays a bigger role in the restaurant industry than in other businesses.
From what I have gathered through discussions with other servers, bartenders, baristas and support staff, the whole service industry is burned out….
