{"id":220616,"date":"2026-05-26T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/restaurants-cant-find-workers-ai-says-it-can\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T18:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T22:25:10","slug":"restaurants-cant-find-workers-ai-says-it-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/restaurants-cant-find-workers-ai-says-it-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Restaurants Can\u2019t Find Workers. AI Says It Can."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/restaurants-cannot-find-workers-ai-says-it-can\/\">Restaurants Can\u2019t Find Workers. AI Says It Can.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/restaurants-cannot-find-workers-ai-says-it-can\/\">https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/restaurants-cannot-find-workers-ai-says-it-can\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-26 18:07:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pymnts.com\">www.pymnts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Labor Challenges in the Restaurant Industry<\/strong>: Staffing shortages, high turnover, and retention problems continue to strain restaurant economics despite advances in online ordering, delivery, and digital payments.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>MAJC Platform and Solutions<\/strong>: Miami-based MAJC, launched in February, addresses these labor challenges using artificial intelligence for job-matching, training, and community tools to build a stable workforce.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Persistent Statistics<\/strong>: The National Restaurant Association projects a large restaurant workforce, yet turnover rates remain high, with some restaurants reporting annual rates exceeding 75%.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Technology&#8217;s Role in Labor Efficiency<\/strong>: Operators indicate that AI and technology can significantly improve labor efficiency, training, and scheduling, as demonstrated by examples like Chipotle&#8217;s faster hiring process using multilingual AI tools.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Platform Focus<\/strong>: MAJC seeks to integrate hiring infrastructure and retention culture, aiming to provide tools that help attract, develop, and retain talent while competing with larger chains.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Future Trends<\/strong>: The industry\u2019s growing reliance on technology and AI signals a shift in addressing labor shortages, with initiatives focusing on improving hiring speed and workforce efficiency.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restaurants Can\u2019t Find Workers. AI Says It Can. https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/restaurants-cannot-find-workers-ai-says-it-can\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-26 18:07:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/restaurants-QSRs-jobs-AI.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-220616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220618,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220616\/revisions\/220618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}