Low Pay, No Benefits, Rude Customers: Restaurant Workers Quit At Record Rate

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/20/ [login to see] /low-pay-no-benefits-rude-customers-restaurant-workers-quit-at-record-rate
A wooden spoon gliding over cast iron. Barely tall enough to see over the stove, Lamar Cornett watched his mother, a cook, make his favorite dish of scrambled eggs.

That first cooking lesson launched a lifelong journey in food. Cornett has spent over 20 years in Kentucky restaurants, doing every job short of being the owner. The work is grueling and tense but rewarding and rowdy, and so fast-paced that the pandemic shutdown was like lightning on a cloudy day.

"It was almost like there was this unplanned, unorganized general strike," Cornett said.