Restaurateur turns to tech to make up for employee shortage

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

  • By Louis Llovio
  • | 12:00 p.m. May 6, 2021
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Mark Wemple - Andrew Koumi, founder of the Green Market Cafe.
Mark Wemple - Andrew Koumi, founder of the Green Market Cafe.
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Andrew Koumi, founder of the Green Market Cafe, faces the same problem restaurant owners nationwide face: he can’t get enough employees.

This means longer hours for those who are on staff, more work for him and managers, and, sometimes, he says, customers bear the brunt of the shortage.

 

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