Chefs and Restaurants

Restaurant Workers Weigh In on the Decision of Whether to Return to Work

We’ve been talking about the reasons cooks and servers aren’t returning to jobs in restaurants for a while now. There are plenty of politicians and other people on the sidelines weighing in on what they think, but that dialogue usually centers on the need to drop unemployment benefits, garnished with a hint of “restaurant workers are lazy.” I could spend many (many!) paragraphs writing about my feelings about people who have never cooked brunch service,...