Thousands of teens are revitalizing the part-time job market. It is a significant shift for Gen Z, with an increasing number of them seeking after-school and summer jobs, “reversing a trend of forgoing work when millennials were teens,” The Washington Post said in a recent analysis.

“You know, in the last year or two, they’ve really helped keep the service sector going,” said Abha Bhattarai, economics analyst for the Post, to Marketplace. Several restaurant owners told her that if it were not for the influx of teens working for them, “they just would have had to shut down by now.”