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hospitality

Nashville’s growing hospitality industry

Anna Gallegos-Cannon

December 14, 2022

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Today we’ll talk with the people who keep our hotels running to find out what goes on behind the scenes of our city’s famous southern hospitality.

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: hospitality, hotels

It’s busy season for Nashville’s hospitality industry. Here’s how it’s attracting workers despite record low unemployment.

Paige Pfleger

June 6, 2022

With CMA Fest just around the corner, Nashville restaurants and hotels are contending with record low employment to meet the demand of this influx of customers.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Business, hospitality, hotels, restaurants, unemployment

Nashville-area restaurant workers say CDC quarantine guidance puts them in a ‘precarious situation’

Juliana Kim

December 30, 2021

Restaurants and bars along Lower Broadway

Federal health officials have reduced the recommended COVID-19 isolation period from 10 days to five for people who have no symptoms. But some question whether a shorter quarantine is appropriate amid a winter outbreak. Among those most conflicted are Nashville-area hospitality workers.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: CDC, Coronavirus In Tennessee, hospitality, James Hildreth

‘There’s No Shortage,’ Say Tennessee Hospitality Workers. They Believe The Industry Must Change.

Alexis Marshall

July 2, 2021

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Saturday marks the end of federal unemployment benefits in Tennessee — two months earlier than originally scheduled. Conservative politicians and some business groups have suggested that workers preferred to rely on those benefits rather than go back to working at businesses like restaurants and hotels. But hospitality workers and organizers say that’s inaccurate. Nneka Ebbe, […]

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: hospitality, Labor, restaurants, Tennessee Department of Labor, Tennessee Unemployment, tourism

Curious Nashville: Whatever Happened To Nashville’s Revolving Restaurant?

Samantha Zern

January 28, 2021

Sheraton revolving restaurant Nashville
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Architect Alan Hayes was driving home from his Brentwood office when he noticed something lighting up the downtown skyline. “It was probably the fall, and the daylight saving time had happened, and all you see is this bright flashing … lights that look like movement on the skyline. It’s the only thing out there. Everything […]

Filed Under: Curious Nashville Tagged With: Curious Nashville, downtown Nashville, history, hospitality, restaurants

Report: Nashville Hospitality Industry Could Be Waiting On A Years-Long Rebound

Damon Mitchell

August 19, 2020

Nashville’s prominent hospitality and leisure industry likely won’t return to pre-COVID-19 employment levels until mid-2022, according to an economic impact analysis by the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce.

Filed Under: Coronavirus Live Updates Tagged With: Coronavirus In Tennessee, economy, hospitality

Nashville’s Hotels And Restaurants Have A Hiring Problem

Chris St. Clair

October 4, 2017

Listen Staffing is the latest hurdle facing Nashville’s growing hospitality industry, which is set to add over 100 restaurants and more than 3,000 hotel rooms by the end of next year. A sparsely attended career fair at Music City Center on Tuesday reflects a much bigger problem facing the city.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: hospitality, restaurants

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