restaurants

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  11/1/2022
  

  How Gael Greene Reinvented the Restaurant Critic

  Greene wrote about restaurants as arenas for the display of status and a part of the city's culture, the way that the dining public did. 

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• SOURCE: Marketplace
  9/28/2021
  

  Unions Gain Traction in the Restaurant Industry-Again

  David Whitford and Dorothy Sue Cobble discuss the ways that workers in the restaurant industry hope to revive the high representation of food service workers by unions that prevailed in the 1950s

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/16/2021
  

  The Complicated History of One Mississippi Restaurant

  Booker Wright, a Black waiter, shocked the community of Greenwood by shedding his genial tableside manner to tell a documentary crew about the burdens of racial subordination. After the film aired, he was assaulted by a police officer and his bar was vandalized.

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• SOURCE: Deadline
  12/12/2020
  

  New York’s 21 Club Closing, Possibly Ending Historic Run That Began During Prohibition Era

  The famed New York establishment may not survive the coronavirus pandemic. 

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• SOURCE: History.com
  5/18/2020
  

  When Did People Start Eating in Restaurants?

  Historian Rebecca Spang's book "The Invention of the Restaurant" examines the French roots of dining out.

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• 4/5/2020
  

  What About the Waitresses?

  by Alison Owings

  I wonder if – when – this viral horror is over, customers will have a new appreciation for the women, and men, who serve.

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• SOURCE: Politico Magazine
  7/17/19
  

  The Racist History of Tipping

  by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

  Lawmakers will vote on the Raise the Wage Act, which would boost the minimum wage across the country to $15 an hour by 2024. This would be a crucial step toward the first federal minimum wage increase in more than a decade.