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title: "Raising Cane’s Puts Corporate Staff to Work in Restaurants Amid Labor Shortage"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/c0e3019d-9ce4-44a9-b355-d9c664f6d649
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/raising-canes-puts-corporate-staff-to-work-in-restaurants-amid-labor-shortage-2716828
category: "Restaurants"
industry: "Restaurants"
topics: ["Operations"]
published: 2021-10-07T20:15:00.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:15:28.135Z
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# Raising Cane’s Puts Corporate Staff to Work in Restaurants Amid Labor Shortage

**TL;DR:** Raising Cane's is sending corporate staff to work in restaurants amid a labor shortage, aiming to hire 10,000 new workers within 50 days. The brand is trying to keep its restaurants operating at full capacity during the ongoing labor shortage.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2021-10-07. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/raising-canes-puts-corporate-staff-to-work-in-restaurants-amid-labor-shortage-2716828).*

## Story

Amid an ongoing labor shortage that has plagued the restaurant industry ever since restaurant workers were laid off in droves during the COVID-19 pandemic last year, 500-plus-unit QSR chicken chain Raising Cane’s is trying out a new stopgap solution to keep its restaurants operating at full capacity.

Starting this week, Raising Cane’s is sending roughly half of its corporate staff to work in its restaurants as fry cooks and cashiers. The corporate staff will also lend a hand in hiring new store-level employees.

The brand is aiming to hire 10,000 new workers within the next 50 days, Bloomberg reported.

Raising Cane’s is not the first QSR brand to get creative in its response to the worker shortage. Last spring, McDonald’s made headlines by offering employee candidates $50 just to interview, whether they were hired or not. While that measure undoubtedly attracted a bevy of applicants, many decried the move as a backhanded attempt at forcing unemployed workers into low-paying jobs, accusing the franchise giant of reporting applicants who ultimately turned down the job to local unemployment offices, thus ending their benefits.

Over the summer, right-leaning pundits and Republican lawmakers grew increasingly vocal in their call to end heightened unemployment benefits initiated during the COVID-19 pandemic, claiming that those benefits were discouraging unemployed workers from returning to the labor pool. Many economists, however, have taken the opposing viewpoint, arguing that reducing that aid may make it even more difficult for unemployed workers to find jobs.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- McDonald's (company)
- qsr industry (topic)
- Raising Cane's (company)
- Bloomberg (company)
- labor shortage (topic)
- hiring (topic)
- corporate staff (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/raising-canes-puts-corporate-staff-to-work-in-restaurants-amid-labor-shortage-2716828). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/c0e3019d-9ce4-44a9-b355-d9c664f6d649).