{"id":12263,"date":"2017-04-27T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/premierfoodsafety_OLD\/?p=12263"},"modified":"2017-04-27T06:00:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T13:00:02","slug":"restaurant-middle-class-job-growth-nearly-four-times-stronger-than-overall-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/restaurant-middle-class-job-growth-nearly-four-times-stronger-than-overall-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Restaurant Middle-class Job Growth Nearly Four Times Stronger Than Overall Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"richsummary\">\n<p id=\"abstract\">According to the National Restaurant Association, middle-class job growth in the restaurant industry has increased nearly four times stronger than the U.S. economy as a whole. Specifically, restaurant jobs grew 25 percent from March 2010 through February 2017. Currently, the restaurant industry is leading in both total job growth and middle class job growth. <\/p>\n<p>Because of the need for scheduling flexibility in the restaurant world, the majority of restaurant employees are part-time. Only about 44 percent of restaurant employees work full-time\/full-year schedules. Yet, from 2010 through 2015, restaurants added 5.4 percent of all middle class jobs in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p id=\"takeawayheader\">Key Takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul id=\"takeaways\">\n<li id=\"takeaway1\">The Bureau of Labor Statistics, which monitors US employment numbers, suggest that the most recent employment recovery of the US economy began around March 2010, proceeding until about February 2017.<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway2\">In the half-decade between 2010 and 2015, it was noted that jobs, featuring total annual incomes between $45,000 and $74,999, in the restaurant sector, boomeranged by almost 50%.<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway3\">Interestingly, due to the nature of the business, less than half of those employed in the restaurant sector, are full time employees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"quote\">&#8220;Not only are restaurants among the leaders in total job growth, they are also adding middle class jobs at a much stronger rate than the overall economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"readmoretext\">Read more: <\/span><a id=\"source\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.restaurantnewsresource.com\/article94029.html\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.restaurantnewsresource.com\/article94029.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"task_trail\" style=\"display:none\">(abstract 3B9XR6P1WEVZFS82BSG9CBZ6NYNBJO 3LEIZ60CDJZ8EYW2LWA1XJOQE6VZ97 A1BCNYPY66VAZ6)(authorquote 3BA7SXOG1JQXBIT8GL58N0VWP998RR 3TXD01ZLD4HQVTWGYEF2ZJYVQWDU4S ATMC8APF2W5HN)(keypoints 3OYHVNTV5TYE963TXIL7JAZIAPWOK1 36AHBNMV1RCKCYZE1QDK58YEZ92DYV A1X84CLJ7N1PLZ)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the National Restaurant Association, middle-class job growth in the restaurant industry has increased nearly four times stronger than the U.S. economy as a whole. Specifically, restaurant jobs grew 25 percent from March 2010 through February 2017. Currently, the restaurant industry is leading in both total job growth and middle class job growth. Because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}