Seeing a lot of stories about the fine line between discipline and abuse in the workplace, and specifically kitchens. Some of these stories relying on the narrative of military comparison and “drill instructor like bosses”
@restofesto Everyone is definitely using their phone anyway. Might as well figure out a way to function as a team with that reality… way more interruptive to work if everyone is just hiding it.
@restofesto Yes. Really it’s not about the guests for us anyway in this case. If the work is being done well, the guests are taken care of regardless of if they ever see a phone. It’s more complicated but we coach around goals and standards of work being met more than just rules to follow.
@AdultingADHD The only job I’ve ever been good at is cooking in restaurants. I love it, I now own 2 (which is much harder for me actually… but I still love it)
I think it is important to be detailed because to say this was a "shooting" is sanitary. Children that young were killed by a weapon that shatters. Young kids would not have identification; they may not be recognizable. There are so many of them. Authorities are figuring 1/
Working in service gave me every single skill required to be a working professional. It is so infuriating to classify a certain type of work as low-skill when those jobs are crucial to both the economy and many individuals well being.
If you worked last night you felt it. Nobody out, many restaurants closed with positive cases in house, reservations cancelled, holiday parties cancelled ... cold, slushy walk to my car thinking about payroll next week, and the week after ...
I am so exhausted with seeing commercials advertising #ShopLocal#Massachusetts on non-local cable stations and providers. How about community news outlets? What about those of us in local media that support retail and restaurants week in and week out?
🎉There are no words to express the joy and excitement harm reduction advocates here in the US are feeling today- we can celebrate the opening of the first legally sanctioned Overdose Prevention Centers in New York City! 🎉
No food journalists should be writing articles about established restaurant groups opening new places without inquiring about what they did for workers they laid off during the pandemic. The public’s deserves to know of those openings came at the expense of their employees.