freshly-opened restaurants across Ontario, some of the regular staff they once looked forward to seeing won’t be there to greet them.This is largely due to the COVID-19 restrictions that temporarily shut restaurant doors forced a lot of people out of work — and some of them aren’t coming back.“Some people, when they started calling staff back, are finding 50 to 60 per cent of their staff has left the industry… they’ve taken jobs elsewhere,” said James Rilett, vice president for the Ontario region at Restaurants Canada.“That’s been a big hit to a lot of people, because it’s really valuable employees that have made the tough decision to move on.