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A Bipartisan Schools Movement Graduation at Motlow State Community College in Tullahoma, Tenn.Credit...Joe Buglewicz for The New York Times April 28, 2021, 6:22 a.m. ET Over the past decade, an idea has become popular with mayors and governors, both Democratic and Republican: A K-12 education is no longer enough. Students should start school earlier than kindergarten, according to this view, both to help families with child care and to provide children with early learning. And students should s...

April 27, 2021Updated 11:38 a.m. ET The chef Blaine Wetzel first came to Lummi, a tiny island in the San Juan archipelago of Washington State, in 2010. At age 24, he was fresh off a two-year stint at the vaunted Copenhagen restaurant Noma. He could have found a job in any kitchen in the world. Instead, he’d answered an ad on Craigslist, posted by a chicken farmer who owned a century-old inn on Lummi Island, 100 miles north of Seattle and reachable only by ferry. Sight unseen, Mr. Wetzel ha...

Willows Inn [Official Photo] New York Times expose, former employees from Lummi Island’s critically acclaimed Willows Inn accuse the restaurant of being, in short, a nightmare work environment. Among some of the most troubling claims in the article are that chef-owner Blaine Wetzel and the restaurant’s manager Reid Johnson oversaw a pattern of sexism, sexual harassment, and racist bullying at the Willows Inn, and that staff members allegedly preyed on teenaged girls from the island. The pie...

By Inside Edition Staff First Published: 12:40 PM PDT, April 27, 2021 In addition wage theft allegations, other employees told The New York Times that the Willows Inns claims of where some of their ingredients came from were not true, saying that things said to have come from the island were sourced from other places. Former workers at a restaurant on Lummi, a tiny island off Washington State, have told The New York Times that the kitchen at the Willows Inn is not all that it has been made ou...

A nationally renowned restaurant in the United States has agreed to pay US$600,000 to settle a class-action lawsuit over alleged wage theft.

The Willows Inn, a nationally acclaimed restaurant on Lummi Island in Washington that has been accused of underpaying its employees, has agreed to pay

Willows Inn [Official Photo] The Willows Inn — Lummi Island’s nationally renowned fine dining establishment — has agreed to pay $600,000 to settle a class-action lawsuit for alleged wage theft. In the lawsuit, filed in 2017, former employees accused Willows Inn head chef/co-owner Blaine Wetzel and management for “failing to pay minimum wage for all work performed, overtime wages, and to provide or pay for rest and meal breaks under Washington law.” A settlement was agreed upon by both...

Restaurant to pay $600K to settle suit over wage theft Sign In March 6, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Person paying waiter for restaurant billFlashpop/Getty Images SEATTLE (AP) — The Willows Inn, a nationally acclaimed restaurant on Lummi Island that has been accused of underpaying its employees, has agreed to pay $600,000 to settle a class-action lawsuit over wage theft accusations. As part of the preliminary settlement, management at The Willows Inn has not admitted to any wrongdoing, The Seatt...

Littlefoot [Official Photo] Theodore Rex — Justin Yu’s highly acclaimed restaurant in the warehouse district — is taking a temporary hiatus. From now until February 12, the restaurant will be closed in preparation a three month pop-up called Littlefoot by Theodore Rex chef de cuisine Kaitlin Steets. Littlefoot, named after the character in “The Land Before Time,” who comes of age during a world crisis, represents chef Kaitlin Steets’s solo debut and own coming of age of sorts. “I�...

New French pop-up steps in for acclaimed downtown Houston restaurant Courtesy of Littlefoot Courtesy of Littlefoot Theodore Rex will be closed until May, chef-owner Justin Yu announced. In its place, Yu is turning over his downtown restaurant to chef de cuisine Kaitlin Steets, who will operate a restaurant pop-up in the space. Dubbed Littlefoot, Steets will serve two, five-course tasting menus: a degustation menu of Texas vegetables, meat, and fish and an all-vegetable menu. The pop-up will ...