Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images By Rayna Reid ·Updated September 30, 2021
While many restaurateurs are struggling to find staff, one such owner, Amanda Cohen, has managed to avoid this dilemma. Dirt Candy, a New York City vegetarian tasting eatery is paying “all staff a $25-an-hour starting wage.” Yet, as she told Business Insider, she still doesn’t “think we pay them enough.”
One impetus for this wage increase was the COVID-19 pandemic,