How Restaurant Workers Help Pay for Lobbying to Keep Their Wages Low
The National Restaurant Association uses mandatory $15 food-safety classes to turn waiters and cooks into unwitting funders of its battle against minimum wage increases.
The National Restaurant Association uses mandatory $15 food-safety classes to turn waiters and cooks into unwitting funders of its battle against minimum wage increases.
The fact that Noma is closing, citing an “unsustainable business model” as the reason, coincides with a historic moment that goes beyond the problem of intern labor (but is related to the ugly economic reality of fine dining).
Tip to journalists: COP27 and food price inflation are part of the same story.
Sometimes solutions present themselves in unconventional ways. For me, the missing pieces of my college experience were a shovel and a hand in the earth.
District of Columbia voters’ approval to end the subminimum wage for tipped employees highlights the momentum that worker advocates say could help them spread similar wage-law changes across the US even as the restaurant industry pushes back.
Legumes could be a powerful tool in building a more-sustainable agricultural system. But Nina Ichikawa and other researchers at the Berkeley Food Institute suspect that something is holding Americans back from eating more beans.