Why Restaurant Workers Aren’t Going Back

No, it’s not because they are getting unemployment checks

Michele Sharpe
Politically Speaking
4 min readMay 27, 2021

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Bartender lining up glasses of beer
Photo by Proriat Hospitality on Unsplash

Working as a server or bartender is hard work. Like retail work, you have to smile while putting up with rude or demanding customers. Back when I was a bartender, one irate customer spat his false teeth at me.

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Michele Sharpe
Politically Speaking

Words in NYT, WaPo, Oprah Mag, Poets&Writers, et als. Adoptee/high school dropout/hep C survivor/former trial attorney. @MicheleJSharpe & MicheleSharpe.com