Restaurants are the hubs at which celebrations take place, where serious questions are asked and business strategies hashed out. They are places of respite from a city so demanding that it has been accused of never sleeping. Restaurants too, are crucial to the economics of NYC and never more so than now as the city struggles to recover from the devastation of the pandemic.

The pandemic has changed the hospitality industry forever. Millions of people left the workplace, many never to return, decimating an industry that now finds itself in dire need of staff. Everywhere in NYC sections of restaurants cannot open because there are no longer enough qualified staff left in the industry to work those sections. Nearly 1 million people that were employed by restaurants pre-pandemic have not yet returned to the industry, the city itself shed nearly 200,000 industry jobs.

This means that restaurants cannot turn the profit they need to claw their way back to solvency. New Yorkers are ready to get back to restaurants where so much of life takes place, but restaurants cannot accommodate them.

We are Hospitality Pathways, and we offer a solution by providing a bridge between the restaurants that need staff but do not have the human or economic resources to train the people they need and the people that have the desire to work in restaurants but not yet, the skills or knowledge needed to be successful. Hospitality Pathways will train the next generation of hospitality professionals and will provide pathways to employment in guest forward positions with your help.