A restaurant posts a "Help Wanted" sign for line cooks and servers on June 22 in Los Angeles. Restaurants are seeing surging demand, but they are still struggling to recruit staff. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)At the Wheat Penny Oven and Bar in Dayton, Ohio, demand for pizza and craft cocktails has never been stronger, but staffing shortages have temporarily forced the restaurant to close on Sundays and Mondays."Not everybody wanted to come back," says co-owner Liz Valenti. "People that had been in this industry for five, ten, fifteen years, made the decision not to come back to hospitality.

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