Restaurants promote career mentality to find employees

John Horne and Mike Quillen offer careers at their restaurants, not just jobs.


  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 2:49 p.m. April 27, 2021
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Mark Wemple. John Horne and Mike Quillen oversee restaurant companies that combined have some 1,000 employees. But each company is facing a worker shortage crisis.
Mark Wemple. John Horne and Mike Quillen oversee restaurant companies that combined have some 1,000 employees. But each company is facing a worker shortage crisis.
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Anna Maria Oyster Bar President and Owner John Horne received quite an unusual phone call five minutes after a recent appearance on Your World with Neil Cavuto on Fox News.

During the Cavuto interview, Horne lamented the help wanted crisis currently engulfing his company, with four locations in Manatee County. Horne, 60, estimates he’s down some 90 employees. To compound the crisis even further, competitors recently poached away a pair of managers.

 

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