Bars, restaurants and hotels have found ways to adapt to COVID-19 — but now face new pressures from inflation.Dave Killen/The Oregonian
The pandemic clobbered Oregon’s bars, restaurants and hotels, with extended shutdowns and wiping out more than 70,000 hospitality jobs in COVID-19′s early days.
The sector was also among the slowest to recover, as successive outbreaks of disease and intermittent restrictions constrained operations and job growth well into 2021. Oregon hospitality jobs lagged far behind the national recovery at the beginning of last year.
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