EATER
JANUARY 29, 2021
I first encountered the gleaming, yellowish-green sauce in 2008. I sat down and watched servers walk by with plates of what looked like tiny white sandwiches bursting with different fillings — I would later learn they were arepas, which I had imagined would be more like savory pancakes. Each visit created new salsa Caracas acolytes.
EATER
JANUARY 28, 2022
In her new book One Fair Wage , she writes about how the practice “spread rapidly as employers in the hospitality sector hired newly freed slaves as servers, porters, and hosts across the country.” Jayaraman sees the tipped wage system as “a direct legacy of slavery” that emerged after Emancipation in 1863.
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7 Shifts
JUNE 20, 2022
There's no dining room, no storefront, no servers, and in some cases not so much as a sign. And like the 2008 financial crisis showed us the necessity of food trucks , the pandemic brought ghost kitchens into the light and accelerated their growth. No servers to catch problems before they reach the customer.
EATER
DECEMBER 21, 2020
I am definitely not the intended audience for Eat a Peach : In 2008, I was hired as the corporate beverage director for Chang’s young empire; I held this job for seven months before I was fired without explanation. Conflict was fuel, and Momofuku was a gas-guzzling SUV,” Chang writes. I love teams.”
EATER
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
When it launched in 2008 , Airbnb promised to digitize short-term rentals, convince more travelers to couch surf instead of booking a hotel room, make it easier for guests to find trustworthy hosts, encourage locals to open their homes and communities to strangers, and overall make travel feel more personal.
EATER
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
In early 2008, the award-winning cocktail bar was just a cool restaurant-industry haunt that deBary’s friend helped open. I was a server at a French cafe in the town where I grew up in Connecticut. John deBary started a career focused on cocktails — then launched an industry fund that’s raised $7.5 What was your first job?
7 Shifts
MAY 15, 2023
But if you rewind to 2009, 2008 when I started cooking, it was heavily glorified and still is in a lot of places, and was seen as the only really meaningful metric to measure your career by, in gastronomy and this obsession with the chef-celebrity, and the chef is God, an artist, and genius. It [can be] abusive, it's toxic, it's exploitative.
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