Photos & Resources for Episode 10

Part 1 - changing standards with saru jayaraman

ROC United Website

Saru’s Bio

Mother Jones, “The Racist, Twisted History of Tipping” 

Huffington Post, “A Bittersweet Day for Working Mothers Living Off Tips”

Saru’s 2015 New York Times OpEd, “Why Tipping is Wrong”

Saru’s latest book, FORKED: A New Standard for American Dining

Colors NY, the non-profit restaurant founded by ROC United

Saru discusses her book Behind the Kitchen Door on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate Show

Sanctuary Restaurants Website

Video, Laura Flanders Show panel, “This Isn't Alt-Labor. This is Labor” 

Saru's TEDx Talk:

Saru Jayaraman
Photo credit: Sekou Luke

Feb 5, 2017 at ROC's 9/11 memorial for fallen Windows of the World coworkers. New York Deputy Secretary of Labor Elizabeth De León Bhargava honors the work that ROC has done over the past 15 years. Further proof that when we stand together we CAN make change.

Elizabeth De Leon Bhargava, Fekkak Mamdouh, Sekou Siby, Saru Jayaraman

Courtesy of ROC United

UUSC, Economic Justice program, with ROC United, Chicago, Illinois 2011

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Courtesy of ROC United

Courtesy of ROC United

Fast food workers on strike for higher minimum wage and better benefits. 

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Saru speaking at the Choose Compassionate Consumption workshop at a UUSC (Unitarian Universalist Service Committee) Workshop at General Assembly, 2013

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Photographer: Steven Nutter

"At the Tavern"
1833 painting by Johann Michael Neder

Pullman advertising poster, 1894. The African American Pullman railroad porters relied solely on tips to make a living. 

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Windows on the World restaurant interior, November 4, 1999

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Part 2 - a new model with ben hall and jason murphy

Russell Street Deli Website

“Restaurants: The next front for the immigration debate?”

StarChefs Bio on Ben

“Raising Industry Standards and (Tipped) Minimum Wage” (Jason’s 2013 blog post for the

American Sustainable Business Council)

Ben’s art gallery

Crain's Detroit, “Russell Street Deli and Public Lumber & Millwork each win $100,000 NEIdeas grants”

NPR’s Marketplace podcast, “Detroit bankruptcy either a disease or cure,” featuring Ben Hall

“Higher wages and split tips: Working for fair pay in the Detroit service industry”

Russell Street Deli Facebook Page

Detroit Free Press, “3 Detroit businesses tell their stories of survival”

Deadline Detroit, Video Chat with Jason

Ben Hall and Jason Murphy at the Russell Street Deli

Fresh soup at the Russell Street Deli

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Russell Street Deli soups on display at Whole Foods in Detroit. 

"We make souperheroes!"
4-week Soup Academy at Russell Street Deli.  100% of the proceeds goes to Gleaners Community Food Bank.
soupacademy@russellstreetdeli.com

Eastern Market at the Russell Street Deli
Detroit - May 2013

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Detroit-grown strawberries from Buffalo St. Farm for Russell Street Deli's strawberry preserves.

Bennington College, Vermont

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general stories and links related to episode 10

• PBS Newshour, “Restaurants nationwide seek ‘sanctuary’ status for immigrant employees”
• Zero Hedge, "Since 2014 The US Has Added 547,000 Waiters And Bartenders And Lost 36,000 Manufacturing Workers”
• Medium, "Why the Restaurant Industry is the Most Important Industry in Today’s America”
• The Economist, “The case against tipping”
• New York Times Magazine, “Why Tip?”
• White House Report: "The Impact of Raising the Minimum Wage on Women and the Importance of Ensuring a Robust Tipped Minimum Wage"
  
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• Capital Public Radio, “New Trends in Restaurant Tipping”
• NPR, Stories about tipping