We Need to Blow Up the Restaurant Industry and Start Over

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic decimated restaurants across the country, the industry desperately needed an overhaul. Just consider some of the conditions of your typical American eatery:

• Profit margins are razor thin
• Servers are living off tips
• The hours are grueling
• Undocumented workers are unprotected
• Health insurance and PTO are rare benefits
• Gender and racial segregation is normal
• Sexual harassment is common

As restaurants look to come back from the economic disaster of COVID-19, Marian Bull says it's time to rethink the entire thing. Read her full story in The New Republic.