No more in-person interviews, but software can keep a list of potential applicants ready to go when jobs bounce back Tara Lindstrom doesn’t know when she’ll be able to fully reopen the 56 restaurants she runs across California and Utah.
But the minute coronavirus restrictions lift, she wants to be ready. “Every day we think, when are we going to be done with this?" said Lindstrom, whose restaurant sales are down between 30% and 60% since March 16, when California was ordered to shelter in place. “It’s been one punch after the next." As city and state officials are beginning to reopen their economies, Lindstrom’s biggest challenge is bringing back about two-thirds of the 1,000 employees at her Jamba Juice, Carl’s Jr.