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Report: 30,000 restaurant industry jobs lost due to pandemic

By Tim Schooley – Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times

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By Tim Schooley – Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times

PITTSBURGH — A new Independent Fiscal Office report on the economic damage caused by the Covid-19 pandemic shows just how much Pennsylvania’s restaurant industry has been hit by the coronavirus.

According to the new report, which will be used in state budget deliberations in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania’s full-service restaurant industry lost 30,000 jobs between December 2019, a few months before pandemic restrictions started in earnest, and December 2021.

Read more in the Pittsburgh Business Times.

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