Restaurant Workers Share Predictions for the Future of the Food World

“We are laboring under a paradox, deemed ‘essential’ even though we aren’t. It isn’t being needed so much as being a weak bandage over a gushing wound our legislators won’t stitch. No equivocation explains why we're mandated to wear masks to protect guests who are not, in turn, required to protect us. This double standard places their comfort above our self-interest—the essence of our work turned cold, cruel. Hopefully we’ll forgive their right to...