Publications

Publications & Reports

Beat the Heat – Restaurant Workers Fight for a Safe and Dignified Work Environment, August 2023

The Impact of COVID-19 on Restaurant Workers Across America, January 2022

State of Restaurant Workers Report, December 2020

The Great Service Divide – Occupational Segregation, Inequality, and the Promise of a Living Wage in the Seattle Restaurant Industry,  July 2020

Looming Recession Will Not Stop Restaurant Growth But Could Hurt Workforce, August 2019

Building the High Road to Racial Equity: Addressing Implicit Bias in the San Francisco Bay Area Restaurant Industry, May 2019

The Gig is Up: The New Gig Economy and the Threat of Subminimum Wages, March 2019

State of Tipped Restaurant Workers in the United States, January 1, 2019

Our Tips Belong To Us: Overcoming the NRA’s Attempt to Steal Workers’ Tips, Perpetuate Sexual Harassment, & Maintain Racial Exploitation, October 2017

Stop the Other NRA – Trump and the National Restaurant Association: Scheming to Undermine Wages, Public Health, and Worker Rights, 2017

Night Care: The Growing Challenge for Parents on the Late Shift, December 2016

Tipped Over: Employer Liability in a Two-Tiered Wage State, June 2016

Secretary of Labor Violations: The Low Road Business Model of CKE Restaurants’ Andrew Puzder, January 2016

Ending Jim Crow in America’s Restaurants: Racial and Gender Occupational Segregation in the Restaurant Industry, October 2015

Darden: At the Drop of a Dime, October 2014

The Great Service Divide: Occupational Segregation and Inequality in the US Restaurant Industry, October 2014

The Great Service Divide: Occupational Segregation and Inequality in New Orleans, Executive Summary, October 2014

The Great Service Divide: Occupational Segregation and Inequality in Chicago, Executive Summary, October 2014

The Great Service Divide: Occupational Segregation and Inequality in Detroit, Executive Summary, October 2014

The Glass Floor: Sexual Harassment in the Restaurant Industry, October 2014

The Other NRA – Unmasking the Agenda of the National Restaurant Association, April 2014

Picking up the NRA’s Tab – The Public Cost of Low Wages in the Full-Service Restaurant Industry, October 2013

The Third Shift: Child Care Needs and Access for Working Mothers in Restaurants, July 2013

Blacks in the Restaurant Industry Brief, January 2012

Tipped Over the Edge – Gender Inequity in the Restaurant Industry, February 2012

The Great Service Divide: Occupational Segregation & Inequality in the New York City Restaurant Industry, March 2009

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