Food service vendor loses contract at SRQ airport, cuts nearly 100 jobs

  • By Louis Llovio
  • | 4:25 p.m. July 3, 2024
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Passenger traffic at SRQ increased by 3 million passengers from 2018 to 2023.
Passenger traffic at SRQ increased by 3 million passengers from 2018 to 2023.
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HMSHost, a suburban Washington, D.C., company that provides food services at in the U.S. and Canada, is laying of nearly 100 employees at the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport.

The layoff notice was posted Wednesday on the Florida's Worker Adjustment Retraining and Notification database. According to the posting, 97 jobs will be cut beginning Aug. 31.

The jobs are in accommodations and food services.

 

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