Restaurants Were Built on Black Labor
The tipped subminimum wage is not an accident of economics. It is a legacy system born in an era that refused to guarantee wages to Black workers. That legacy still shapes who holds risk and who holds power.
Labor Is Not a Line Item.
If your profitability depends on someone else’s instability, that is not entrepreneurship. That is extraction. Stable wages create stable teams. Stable teams create stable businesses.