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title: "Restaurant Hiring Surges as U.S. Employers Add 467,000 Jobs In January"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/7d130be7-fc48-4e5d-bb1a-99eaeeac1672
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/restaurant-hiring-surges-as-us-employers-add-467000-jobs-in-january-2717966
category: "Restaurants"
industry: "Restaurants"
published: 2022-02-11T12:07:00.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:13:14.308Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/0da9e6503f30784b074578fcc087b8085594.jpg
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# Restaurant Hiring Surges as U.S. Employers Add 467,000 Jobs In January

**TL;DR:** U.S. employers added 467,000 jobs in January, including 108,000 in food services, exceeding projections. The U.S. economy has regained more than 19 million of the 22 million jobs lost in the early weeks of the pandemic.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2022-02-11. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/restaurant-hiring-surges-as-us-employers-add-467000-jobs-in-january-2717966).*

## Story

U.S. employers added 467,000 jobs in January, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced, exceeding projections. This included employment gains of 108,000 in “food services and drinking places” — welcome news after early reports suggested that the rampant omicron variant would negatively impact the food-and-beverage industry.

The number of long-term unemployed people — those jobless for six months or more — declined to 1.7 million in January, down from four million a year earlier, according to the New York Times.

“The U.S. economy has regained more than 19 million of the 22 million jobs lost in the early weeks of the pandemic,” the Times wrote, “and the unemployment rate has fallen far faster than forecasters expected.”

The 467,000 jobs added in January is a significant uptick from the 199,000 jobs reportedly added in December 2021 — indicating surprising momentum to start the new year.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (regulator)
- job market (topic)
- unemployment rate (topic)
- economic recovery (topic)
- food services (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/restaurant-hiring-surges-as-us-employers-add-467000-jobs-in-january-2717966). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/7d130be7-fc48-4e5d-bb1a-99eaeeac1672).