With nearly 11 million people working in the restaurant industry in the United States, the field has become one of the most populated in the workforce. But a new report finds that while there’s a plethora of positions in the restaurant business, there’s a stark difference between livable-wage and poverty-wage positions and it tends to further segregate employees by gender and race.
The Restaurant Opportunities Centers United released a report [PDF] Tuesday exploring the wide-ranging economic positions of service industry workers and calling for an end for what it calls racial and gender occupational segregation.
“While Jim Crow regulated the enforced separation between white and African American patrons in restaurants,” the report states, “today we largely find that restaurant workers are effectively segregated by race and gender by a partition between livable-wage server and bartender positions and poverty wage busser, runner, and kitchen positions.”
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A person bussing tables can make as much, or more than the waitstaff.
ReplyDeleteWhile the study used race and gender as factors I don't see where they used educational level. Might that have something to do with the differences. Just another in a long line of bogus studies. Probably paid for with our money via a corrupt government.
ReplyDeleteEverything's about racism now. FU all.
ReplyDeleteNo good restaurants around here.
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