Green Market Cafe has begun adding kiosks to help cut down on the number of employees

Bavaro’s Pizza Napoletana & Pastaria offers cash to lure new employees

Climate First Bank, which promises to be carbon neutral, opens its first branch June 1.

The timing is like burnt toast: just as the economy opens up, restaurants are facing a critical shortage of employees. But solutions are percolating.  

A payday surpassing $1 billion — entangled in a multinational legal mining dispute — is in the offing for a small business that got its start in diving for treasure in long-lost shipwrecks.