2020 – 2021 Research

REPORT: Closed Due to Low Wages: The Ongoing Exodus of Workers from the New York Restaurant Industry and the Looming Impact on Consumers

CONSUMER ALERT: New York Consumers Can Expect Significant Disruptions When Dining Out this Holiday Season

New York Fact Sheet: The Key to Saving the New York State Restaurant Industry Post-Covid 19

Washington D.C. Fact Sheet: The Key to Saving the Illinois Restaurant Industry Post-Covid 19

Illinois Fact Sheet: The Key to Saving the Illinois Restaurant Industry Post-Covid 19

NEW REPORT: From the ‘front of house’ to the ‘back of house’ (and onto the green) Topgolf workers are speaking out against toxic work culture in the restaurant and golf entertainment industries

PRESENTATION: Research on the Tipped Minimum Wage: Findings from Survey Research of Restaurant Workers in the District of Columbia 

REPORT: No Rights, Low Wages, No Service: How Increased Violations of of Workers’ Rights in 2021, Coupled with High Harassment and Low Wages and Tips, Have Pushed Workers to Leave the Service Sector 

NATIONAL REPORT: Raising Wages to Reopen: Restaurants Nationwide Raising Wages to Save Their Businesses After Covid-19

HOW-TO GUIDE: Restaurants Can Provide Livable Wages: A How-to-Guide for Restaurateurs to Transition Profitably to One Fair Wage

REPORT: HELP WANTED: The Impact (Or Lack Thereof) of Ending Unemployment Insurance on Restaurant Workers Willingness to Work for Subminimum Wages 

NATIONAL REPORT: IT’S A WAGE SHORTAGE, NOT A WORKER SHORTAGE: Why Restaurant Workers, Particularly Mothers, Are Leaving the Industry, and What Would Make Them Stay

REPORT: It’s Not a Worker Shortage, It’s a Wage Shortage: Why New York Restaurant Workers Are Leaving the Industry, And What Would Make Them Stay

REPORT: It’s Not a Worker Shortage, It’s a Wage Shortage: Why Michigan Restaurant Workers Are Leaving the Industry, And What Would Make Them Stay

REPORT: It’s Not a Worker Shortage, It’s a Wage Shortage: Why Illinois Restaurant Workers Are Leaving the Industry, And What Would Make Them Stay

REPORT: MINIMIZING WAGES & WORKER HEALTH: How the “Other NRA” Continues to Stymie Critical Progress in Massachusetts

REPORT: How the Raise the Wage Act Will Decrease Worker Poverty and Increase Small Business Success in the Maine Restaurant Industry

POLL: Representative Sample Polling of Tipped Workers in Maine, New Hampshire, and Delaware

REPORT: The National Restaurant Association’s Duplicitous Lobbying, Perpetuation of Race and Gender Inequity, and Support for Insurrectionists

REPORT: DOING MORE FOR LESS: New York Restaurant Workers’ Experiences of Tips, Surcharges, Racial Inequity, and Why They’re Leaving the Industry During Covid-19

REPORT: The Tipping Point How the Subminimum Wage Keeps Incomes Low and Harassment High

BRIEF: New York Brief on The Tipped Minimum Wage as a Gender Equity Issue: It’s Time To End The Subminimum Wage

BRIEF: Illinois Brief on The Tipped Minimum Wage as a Gender Equity Issue: It’s Time To End The Subminimum Wage

LETTER: WEST VIRGINIA STATEWIDE TELEPHONE SURVEY ON MINIMUM WAGE

REPORT: How the Raise the Wage Act Will Decrease Worker Poverty and Increase Small Business Success in the Maine Restaurant Industry

REPORT: Decline in Open Hospitality Businesses Due to COVID-19

LETTER: Letter to United States Congress Members re: Support of Raise the Wage Act

REPORT:  Ending a Legacy Of Slavery: How Biden’s Covid Relief Plan Cures the Racist Subminimum Wage

WHITE PAPER: Full Deal for Full Recovery: Congressmembers: Pass the American Rescue Plan in Its Entirety!

REPORT: Washington DC Service Workers Experience of Health & Harassment During Covid-19

NATIONAL REPORT: “Take Your Mask Off So I Know How Much to Tip you: Service Workers’ Experience of Health & Harassment During COVID-19

REPORT: UPSTATE NY SERVICE WORKERS EXPERIENCE OF HEALTH & HARASSMENT DURING COVID

REPORT: Massachusetts Service Workers Experience of Health & Harassment During Covid-19

NATIONAL REPORT: How the Subminimum Wage Disincentives COVID-19 Safety Enforcement in Restaurants

REPORT: How the Subminimum Wage Disincentivizes COVID-19 Safety Enforcement in MA Restaurants

REPORT: How the Subminimum Wage Disincentivizes COVID-19 Safety Enforcement in NY Restaurants

NATIONAL REPORT: A Persistent Legacy of Slavery-Ending the Subminimum Wage for Tipped Workers as a Racial Equity Measure

REPORT: A Persistent Legacy of Slavery-Ending the Subminimum Wage for Tipped Workers in Illinois as a Racial Equity Measure

REPORT: A Persistent Legacy of Slavery-Ending the Subminimum Wage for Tipped Workers in Massachusetts as a Racial Equity Measure

REPORT: A Persistent Legacy Of Slavery: Ending the Subminimum Wage for Tipped Workers in New York as a Racial Equity Measure

JUNE REPORT: Locked Out By Low Wages: New York Service Workers’ Challenges With Accessing Unemployment Insurance During Covid-19 

REPORT: Roadmap To Reimagine Restaurants A New Path Forward After COVID-19

REPORT: Locked Out by Low Wages: Service Workers’ Challenges with Accessing Unemployment Insurance During COVID-19

REPORT: Michigan Service Workers’ Challenges with Accessing Unemployment Insurance During COVID-19.

REPORT: Locked out by Low Wages: DC Service Workers’ Challenges Accessing Unemployment Insurance During COVID-19.

FACTSHEET: This Moment is Highlighting Why We’ve Needed One Fair Wage All Along

FACTSHEET: NY Still Needs One Fair Wage

Letter from Doctors & Public Health Officials to NY Governor Cuomo Re: COVID-19