Pizza delivery brings sharp taste of labor shortages and economic squeeze

Companies are now encountering difficulties with finding workers as the pandemic wanes, and some economists think the hefty federal unemployment expansion may be a big part of the problem.

Salvador Khadra is the director of operations for Pizza Boli’s, a Maryland-based franchise company that dishes out pizza, pasta, subs, and wings at its dozens of locations in Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, and Washington, D.C. Khadra said that the labor shortages have been so difficult that some stores now depend on third-party delivery companies to distribute their food.