Promote Ethical Eating: A Majority of Food-Service Workers Lack Reasonable Wages and Benefits from the Pittsburgh City Paper
""The industry has grown so fast in the last decade. ... It's neck-and-neck with retail as the nation's largest private-sector employer," says Saru Jayaraman, co-founder and co-director of ROC and director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley. "And unfortunately, being the largest employer, it also generates the lowest-paying jobs.""