A Flint-area restaurant sits empty during Michigan's dine-in ban in January 2021. (Cody Scanlan | MLive.com)
Food and drink jobs are on the upswing again in Michigan, yet 12% of the state’s yet-to-be-regained jobs are from sit-down restaurants.
Michigan had 141,000 sit-down restaurant jobs in January 2020. That number dipped as low as 39,000 in April 2020 as the pandemic and the dine-in ban crushed the industry. Sit-down restaurant employment has rebounded to 105,000 as of March, per the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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