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And in the midst of it all, a QSRweb poll shows that more than 31% of restaurant company leaders have closed stores due to lack of employees, while nearly half of respondents relayed they have been mulling a similar move at one or more of their stores. In other words, the restaurant industry — particularly the quick-service sector — definitely has a problem that threatens to do some real harm to businesses' bottom lines. And no, not even a vaccine will remedy this conundrum, but some kind of answers are definitely needed and in short order. Data depicts dire situation developing Lest you ...

Giving Restaurant Workers a Seat at the Table May 7, 2021  • David K. Gibson Restaurant workers have been hit hard by COVID-19 and the associated upheaval. According to a National Restaurant Association survey, two-thirds of workers had lost their jobs by April 2020, just two months into the pandemic. As the advocacy organization One Fair Wage notes, the industry includes seven of the 10 lowest-paying jobs in the country, and its workers are three times likelier to live in poverty than the rest of the US workforce. Restaurant workers are among those with the least access to health care, o...

Prof. of Philosophy Panel Info: A legacy of slavery, the subminimum wage for tipped workers forces a mostly female workforce of waitresses, largely in very casual restaurants, to struggle with the highest rates of poverty and sexual harassment of any workforce, because they must tolerate inappropriate customer behavior to feed their families in tips. Join us for a panel discussion with preeminent experts researching gender-based discrimination and violence. Panelist Bios: Saru Jayaraman: As the President of One Fair Wage and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at Univ. of California, B...

Helping the Powerless Build Power Oral histories of five activists who’ve worked in and for worker centers Mary Altaffer/AP Photo Activists rally outside New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office to call on a $15 minimum wage. Over the past quarter century, a new form of worker organization – worker centers – have arisen among groups of workers, primarily immigrants and African Americans, for whom unionization isn’t usually an option, largely due to the limited scope of the laws governing collective bargaining rights. To tell the stories of these organizations, the Prospect...

Restaurant Chains Slammed Over Resistance To Minimum Wage Hike For Tipped Workers Patch 2 hrs ago WASHINGTON — As the nation’s largest trade group for restaurant owners on Tuesday held a virtual version of its annual gathering to lobby Congress, advocates for a $15-per-hour minimum wage took aim at the powerful restaurant chains that they say are blocking legislation on a higher wage for tipped workers. During their own virtual event, lawmakers such as Wisconsin Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan and advocates for raising the minimum wage sought to contrast the National Restaurant Association�...