According to the Independent Budget Office, New York has the weakest hospitality recovery of any place in the country other than San Francisco. Pre-pandemic, the industry had around 475,000 jobs. Now it has around 400,000. Greg David blames this on a decline in demand caused by a lack of tourists…

According to OpenTable, reservations at dine-in restaurants in the U.S. have been declining since the end of November. Reservations were down 8% on 12/18, for example. In New York City, reservations for seated diners on 12/17 declined 34% compared to the same day in 2019. Much is unclear about the…

Why workers are leaving hospitality, and why independent restaurants aren’t doing much about it. The number of U.S. workers quitting their jobs in September was the highest on record. Nearly a million workers quit in hospitality alone. Because prices are also rising, inflation-adjusted hourly wage growth actually declined. According to…

There’s a gap between what consumers want and what restaurants are offering According to the National Restaurant Association, 55% of all adults are interested in paying for a subscription to their neighborhood restaurant. Millennials in particular are interested in this. 1 in 20 are interested in doing it simply to…

When I was working at a restaurant in Cranford, NJ, the chef wanted to completely overhaul the concept. He wanted to rename it, rebrand it and base the menu on Mistral in Princeton. Mistral’s menu highlights smaller plates geared towards sharing. The overhaul never happened, and the restaurant was sold…

The headache started five years ago. It announced itself while I was working at a restaurant in New Jersey. In half a decade, I haven’t had a day without it. Beforehand, I struggled with anxiety and depression. I was seeing a therapist who, at the time, diagnosed me with ADHD…

My interest in investing was piqued when Anuj Abrol started a newsletter called Witty Wealth. WittyWealth has a very WallStreetBets kind of vibe to it. Anuj excels at breaking down investments in an authentic and down-to-earth way. He injects humor and memes into traditionally boring information. He was way into…

In an effort to understand American conservatives, Arlie Hochschild spent half a decade getting to know white, working class voters in the American South. The result was her 2016 book, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right. …

I became familiar with Sandy Beach after entering the program of Alcoholics Anonymous two years ago. I sought out people like Sandy after discovering a meeting featuring the most honest speakers I’ve ever heard. Previously, I thought catharsis was only experienced in the middle of a bender. The speakers at…