With 70% of the industry’s 12 million workers born abroad, restaurant bosses are using their unique position to take a stand: ‘The restaurant is a safe space’
As thousands of demonstrators gathered at airports to protest Donald Trump’s travel ban, chefs across America gathered in their kitchens and dining rooms, alone and with staff, to strategize about what they could do to fight it.
For many chefs and restaurant owners, the executive order is simply the latest in a sustained attack against their workforce and livelihood. It began in earnest with Trump’s assertion, last June, that Mexicans were drug dealers and rapists– although he did add that “some were good people”.
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