Saru Jayaraman

Saru Jayaraman is the president of One Fair Wage, co-founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United), and director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley

Recent Articles

How Restaurants Can Be Fairer Workplaces

One of us is a restaurant worker advocate, and the other a restaurateur and employer. To say we were adversaries might be too extreme, but it’s true that we have not always been allies. As...

By Danny Meyer and Saru Jayaraman

The Hidden Cost of Waiting Tables

The restaurant industry is the second largest employer in the U.S., providing jobs for nearly 11 million Americans. It’s also one of the country’s fastest-growing industries; revenues have risen every year since 2010.But the reality...

By Saru Jayaraman
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