//'Every restaurant in this town needs people': Upstate restaurant to pay newly hired cooks $20/hour amid shortage of help

'Every restaurant in this town needs people': Upstate restaurant to pay newly hired cooks $20/hour amid shortage of help

Some Upstate restaurants are in need of more cooks in the kitchen as demand picks up. One restaurant is even offering to pay more for help. “We keep getting punched and we keep taking it, so I feel like Rocky from Rocky 4,” joked Adam Hayes, executive vice president of Larkin’s Restaurants. Hayes spent most of his Wednesday flipping burgers and helping his kitchen