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This App Finds Food Workers Fast
快速尋找餐飲業小時工的應用
If you can stand the heat, Pared will get you into a kitchen.
如果你不怕高溫，應用Pared愿意領你進廚房。
On a busy Friday night during the 2018 holiday season at the San Francisco restaurant Frances, chef and owner Melissa Perello faced a potential disaster.
在2018年假期忙碌的周五晚上，位于舊金山的Frances餐廳廚師兼老板梅利莎·佩雷洛面臨著一個潛在的災難。
A dishwasher hadn't shown up for work, and she was already down a person in the kitchen.
一個洗碗工沒有來上班，而餐廳廚房里已經少了一名員工了。
"I got on the Pared app," she recalls." And 35 minutes later, a dishwasher walked in the door."
“我選擇了使用應用Pared，”她回憶道。“35分鐘后，一名洗碗工走進門。”
Perello's predicament is a long-standing problem for the industry, and it's only getting worse.
佩雷洛的困境是該行業長期存在的問題，而且這種情況只會越來越糟。
The number of full- service restaurants in major cities is increasing
主要城市的全方位服務餐廳數量正在增加，
—in New York it rose to 9,809 in the third quarter of 2018, from 8,563 in the third quarter of 2016
在紐約，此類餐廳數量從2016年第三季度的8563家增加到2018年第三季度的9809家。
—but millennials are less inclined to commit to a full-time schedule.
但是，千禧一代不太愿意做全職安排。
This makes dishwashers harder to hold on to.
這使得洗碗工很難穩定下來。
Staffing problems ultimately affect diners, who might be wondering why their roast chicken is taking so long to come out.
人員配備問題最終會影響用餐者，他們可能在想為什么點的烤雞要等這么久才上桌。
According to statistics from the scheduling app 7shifts, the average tenure of a restaurant employee is one month and 26 days.
根據時間表應用7shifts的統計，餐廳員工的平均任期是一個月零26天。
The Pared app, designed to solve this problem, was introduced in December 2015 by Will Pacio, a Stanford graduate who cooked at the French Laundry,
為解決這個問題而設計的Pared應用，由畢業于斯坦福大學、曾在法國著名的納帕谷餐廳擔任廚師的威爾·帕西奧，
the legendary Napa Valley restaurant, and Dave Lu, a veteran of Apple and Yahoo! who founded fan club network Fanpop.
以及蘋果和雅虎資深專家、并創立過粉絲俱樂部Fanpop的戴夫·盧于2015年12月推出。
At the start, Pared was a Bay Area-based program for filling such jobs as dishwashers and prep cooks.
一開始，Pared是基于舊金山灣區的項目，用于填補洗碗工空缺，并培養廚師。
It's since grown to include many more positions, including servers, baristas, and even oyster shuckers.
從那時起，它已經發展為包括服務員、咖啡師、甚至剝牡蠣工等更多工種。
In March 2018, Pared expanded to New York, where it now has several high-profile clients, including Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Tom Colicchio, and Tao Group.
2018年3月，Pared推廣到紐約。目前，它已在紐約擁有數家知名客戶，包括名廚讓·喬治·馮格里奇頓和湯姆·克里希奇奧，以及陶集團。
Pacio and Lu are expanding to Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., by the end of the year, with the goal of being in all the major U.S. metropolitan markets by 2020.
今年年底前，帕西奧和盧會將其推廣到費城和華盛頓特區，他們的目標是到2020年進駐美國所有主要大都市的市場。
"Every day, I beg them to come to Los Angeles," says Perello, who's opening a restaurant, M. Georgina, there in the summer.
“每天，我都懇求他們來洛杉磯，” 佩雷洛說，夏天時她在那里開了一家名叫喬治娜山的餐館。
