This article talks about the current problem that restaurants are having finding people to hire. The main interview is with a guy named Tillman Fertitta, CEO of Landry's Inc, which operates some 400 restaurants around the country, including one of their recent acquisitions, McCormick & Schmicks, where our oldest son has worked for nearly 25 years.
As a sort of update, our son's been recently promoted, as a result of the reorganization following the acquisition, to an executive level position where he's now responsible for the culinary side of the entire McCormick & Schmicks brand. In other words, he's now heading an organization consisting of all the people who work in the kitchens, or the 'back-side', of some 70+ restaurants, this includes the executive chef all the way down to the guy who washes the dishes. All told, that comes to about 2,500 people. And when they mention the jobs which are open at their corporate headquarters in Houston, he will soon be moving into that same office. However, it won't be much of a move as his current office is in the back of one of the local M&S stores which just happens to be across the street from Landy's headquarters. He'll just have to turn left instead of right when he's coming up the street 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/10/restaurant-jobs-economy_n_1415280.html
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