“Senior Citizens Are Replacing Teenagers as Fast-Food Workers”

Senior Citizens Are Replacing Teenagers as Fast-Food Workers,” by Leslie Patton, Bloomberg

“Restaurants are recruiting in senior centers and churches. They’re placing want ads on the website of AARP, an advocacy group for Americans over 50. Recruiters say older workers have soft skills—a friendly demeanor, punctuality—that their younger cohorts sometimes lack. ”

LTC Comment (from Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform):

Working that hard, they may put off LTC a year or two . . . if they don’t eat the product.