Rethinking the future of restaurants beyond the pandemic

Saru Jayaraman, a professor at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, director of the university’s Food Labor Research Center, and president of One Fair Wage, a national campaign to end sub-minimum wage in the United States, helped launch a food support program called High Roads Kitchen during the pandemic that employs restaurant workers to feed the hungry. In this final episode of a three-part series by Sonia Paul, Jayaraman discusses the industry’s structural inequities and how COVID-19 has amplified them, and whether food support programs launched in the pandemic can scale up to also help push for more systemic change.

Civic · Sonia Paul, Mel Baker