Discover the stories of people working in the restaurant industry and how their struggles during the pandemic are connected to their wider communities and economies, as well as see how restaurants have shifted the way they work.
“People don’t understand how large a ripple effect on the economy one 30-seat restaurant can have,” said Gabriel Stulman, who has had to close two of his nine Manhattan restaurants. What dies along with a restaurant is money that went to a landlord, to food producers, to food deliverers, to linen suppliers, to appliance repair workers. “For most people in our industry, 90 cents of every dollar that we make goes back into the economy in one form or another,” said Stulman.”