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Restaurant Industry
September 14, 2023
Elena Soderblom
To Save Your Favorite Restaurant, Destroy Tipping Culture
The archaic practice is standing in the way of across-the-board reforms that are necessary to end the exploitation of the industry’s workforce.
October 15, 2021
Molly Osberg
Service Workers Are Now Frontline Public Health Enforcers
Is it any wonder they are quitting in droves?
December 11, 2020
Casey Taylor
Inside the Hostage Crisis of America’s Dying Restaurants
Covid-19 rates are spiking, debts are mounting, and workers and owners are trapped in a hell of Congress’s making.
December 4, 2020
Magazine
Aaron Timms
The Tangled Legacy of James Beard
He was the dean of American cooking. He embodied some of food culture’s most persistent problems.
November 13, 2020
Nick Martin
Republican Malice Has Turned the Pandemic Into a Deadly Loop
The GOP blocks the stimulus. Nonessential businesses reopen and people go back to work because they need money. Cases surge. People die.
July 8, 2020
Bryce Covert
Kill the Tipped Minimum Wage
Workers were barely getting by before the pandemic, and the situation has only grown more desperate since then.
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