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Restaurants among top job creators in 2011
By Chris Elliott
January 31, 2012
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Higher consumer spending and an increase in the number of establishments helped Canada’s restaurant industry grow by 28,000 jobs in 2011 over 2010. This jump represents an annual increase of 2.6 per cent – the strongest growth since 2007. In fact, Canada’s restaurant industry was the third-largest job creator in 2011, generating more new jobs than high-profile industries like manufacturing, retail, and finance and insurance.
Employing more than one million Canadians
The restaurant industry now employs more than 1.1 million Canadians or 6.5 per cent of the country’s workforce – making it the fourth-largest private sector employer in the country. Restaurants employ more people than finance and insurance, agriculture, and forestry and logging combined. The restaurant industry also created one in 15 new jobs over the past decade.
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Creating youth jobs
Restaurants are a major employer of youth. More than 480,000 Canadians under the age of 25 work in foodservice, accounting for one in five youth jobs. Youth make up 43% of the industry’s workforce, a share that has been relatively unchanged over the past two decades.
Dealing with a labour shortage
Despite the increase in employment in 2011, many restaurateurs are still struggling to find workers. In CRFA’s recent Restaurant Outlook Survey for Q4 of 2011, 32 per cent of respondents indicated they are struggling to hire skilled labour and 14 per cent are having difficulty finding unskilled workers. The survey also found that nearly three-quarters of restaurant operators plan to keep their employment level about the same or higher over the next six months.
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