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All FT staff members at this location will be offered positions elsewhere in our company, hopefully helping to strengthen our labor situation in our remaining facilities.Īlthough we must close Scott Street I would like to make it clear that The Sparrow Bakery company is not at risk of further reductions to business and we do plan to maintain our NWX retail location and wholesale business at full or increased capacity – Bend you’re stuck with Sparrow Bakery for many, many years to come!
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This group of people does not deserve to be asked to shoulder the load of a critically understaffed operation – above all else this is the single most compelling reason behind our decision. Regardless of our huge efforts and far-reaching innovations at Scott Street to try like hell to “make it work” with whom and what we have, we have simply hit a wall – after Labor Day weekend we will have 6 adult employees left at Scott street – we need over 20 to be fully staffed. The truth is, as most of you know, this labor anomaly is not limited to our company. It’s hard to sleep at night (literally) contemplating what you are doing wrong as an employer, what you could do more, not to mention feeling exhausted with the coordination and pressure of constant hiring, teaching, and attempting to maintain job satisfaction. This past year alone I have made 117 job offers, and of those who accepted the average retention has been less than 120 days. We have searched for new workers relentlessly this year: in years past I have interviewed and hired between 30-40 employees annually. We have been understaffed at Scott Street since early January when we lost a few staff members to school or other career opportunities. We work hard to be good employers, often placing our employees’ needs above the demands of our customers, but at this unprecedented moment in time we feel we have exhausted our resources, and ourselves, and we must consolidate our company. The pandemic has turned an annual labor struggle into a true crisis for our company. Since Bend recovered from the recession labor has been in relatively short supply in this town – I know that most if not all of my service industry friends would agree.
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Hiring and retaining workers, henceforth referred to as “labor,” has been a challenge for us at the bakery even before the pandemic era. If you would like to know more about the lead up to this decision please read on below. As most of you know Scott Street is our original location and we have been operational at this address for 15 years to the month. With heavy hearts we must announce the permanent closure of The Sparrow Bakery at our Scott Street location While we remain open at our NWX location our last day of operations at 50 SE Scott st will be Monday, September 6 th, 2021, Labor Day.