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How Restaurant Workers Help Pay for Lobbying to Keep Their Wages Low

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source link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/us/politics/restaurant-workers-wages-lobbying.html
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Politics|How Restaurant Workers Help Pay for Lobbying to Keep Their Wages Low

How Restaurant Workers Help Pay for Lobbying to Keep Their Wages Low

The National Restaurant Association uses mandatory $15 food-safety classes to turn waiters and cooks into unwitting funders of its battle against minimum wage increases.

A restaurant worker seen through the window on a door leading to the kitchen.
More than 3.6 million workers have taken the training, providing about $25 million in revenue to the restaurant industry’s lobbying arm since 2010.Credit...Amir Hamja/Bloomberg
A restaurant worker seen through the window on a door leading to the kitchen.
Published Jan. 17, 2023Updated Jan. 18, 2023
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WASHINGTON — For many cooks, waiters and bartenders, it is an annoying entrance fee to the food-service business: Before starting a new job, they pay around $15 to a company called ServSafe for an online class in food safety.


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