By James Zilinski ’22, staff writer  

The national labor shortage is showing itself on campus as Metz struggles to find workers.   

Metz has been forced to reduce hours at Dutchmen Den and InterMetzo; both locations provide on-the-go food and drink options for LVC students.    

“We plan on this being a temporary problem,” Dan Shadoin, general manager of Metz, said. “As soon as we can recruit and train additional staff, we will return to full operations.”  

In the meantime, Shadoin apologizes to students for the inconvenience. Metz employees are currently working overtime to keep services running as smoothly as possible, but the worker shortage is not the only problem impacting Metz this semester.   

“We are also seeing shortages in the supplies we normally purchase,” Shadoin said.   

As a result, some food options may not always be available. While this may be out of Metz’s control, the worker shortage is not. Metz is hiring student workers for retail, catering, dining and kitchen operations.   

“We pay $12 an hour and each LVC employee gets an additional $1 per hour in Flex Dollars,” Shadoin said.  

Day, evening, catering on-call and weekend shifts are available. LVC students are able to work up to 20 hours per week.  Any interested students can visit metzlvc.com/student-opportunities for more information.