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Just a little bi-coastal chat this week, catching up on some news from the past weeks, and checking in on legislative relief efforts for the bar and restaurant industry. As NYC increases capacity for indoor dining, and nightclubs turn restaurant to get by, the city's outdoor dining sprawl is gettin…

What's up with midwestern coffee shops these days? They've got the union bug it seems!  This episode is a discussion with Kait Dessofy, barista, dancer and volunteer organizer at Collectivo Coffee - a chain mostly located among Chicago, Milwaukee and Madison.  Collectivo workers are in th…

Part Two of a discussion with Adam Barr and Maria Moreno of Restaurant Opportunities Center of the Bay Area (ROC the Bay) along with Tiffany joining in NYC. This is where we really ***get into it***!!!The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $2.13 an hour since 1991. People argue endlessly, passi…

I've long known this podcast would end up doing multiple episodes dedicated to different aspects of tipping, little did I know that the very first discussion, on the subminimum wage, would itself, get split into a two-parter.  Tiffany in NYC joined again  for a chat with two organizers from th…

An hour and forty (!!!!)  blew by with two of the leaders of the Texas Service Industry Coalition, Gina Dvorak (Insta/Twitter) and Crystal Maher (Insta/Twitter)  - both based in Austin. Follow TSIC on Instagram and Twitter.  We spend some time hearing about how things have gone down …

IT'S A PARTY!!!! Gettin' DOWN with pdfs on congress.gov today!! WOOOO!!!! But seriously, we dive into The RESTAURANTS Act, which, aside from having THE  best legislative acronym since the proposed JAWS Act of 2014, may get a boost with a Biden administration and new Congress. Introduced i…

Last show of the year of our Covid, 2020! Here's to better things, more frequent shows, many cool new guests and generally learning a lot more about podcasting, in 2021!! Tiffany joins, champagne flute in hand, from NYC again.  And an old comrade of Karina's, Mariah, drops in from DC, toa…

After a hiatus to contemplate the crumbling of our society, we're back! And we're resolving to be nice while still being miserable, channelling these Ominous Positivity vibes.  First off: Everyone hates Tom Brady. That's all. In unrelated news, India's been having the largest strike in world h…

Grab a cuppa joe and listen up! It's a good one today folks :)Three workers from Spyhouse Coffee in Minneapolis - Elise, Maeve and Matt - chatted about the Whys and Hows of their choice to start unionizing their coworkers and stage the first successful food service industry strike in 20 years in th…