Recommendations for Further Research

Recommendations for Further Research

This study contributes to mental health literature by examining the impact of Covid-19 on restaurant workers in Alberta. Because Covid-19 is such a recent branch of study, more work must be done before the effects are fully understood.

This study focused its research on restaurant employees in the Edmonton area only. To verify this study’s generalizability, other populations ought to be studied. Other factors may also be contributing to pandemic stress levels, notably gender and race, which this study did not explore. Finally, this study failed to reach a wide variety of restaurant workers, as was intended. In particular, no kitchen or delivery staff participated, and most of the managerial participants also reported working in the front of house. Therefore, it cannot be said that the research presented here is generalizable to the Albertan restaurant industry as a whole. At best, it is generalizable only to Albertan front-of-house workers.