Learning skills from some of Houston s best restaurants.
Homemade Hope and the Greater Houston Restaurant Association launched Restaurant U, a program that connects at-risk children to world-class eateries in the Houston area.Â
THERE S AN ENTIRE WORLD S worth of culinary experiences available in Houston, and Restaurant U is helping foster opportunities to the children that need it most.
âFor so many of the children Homemade Hope serves, food can be a source of uncertainty,â says Homemade Hope s Executive Director Blair Bentley in a press release. âThese children live in food deserts and donât get adequate nutrition.â
Thatâs why the Houston non-profit decided to partner with The Greater Houston Texas Restaurant Association (GHTRA)âto design an engaging summer field trip program that allows vulnerable children ages 4â18 to gain insight into Houstonâs thriving restaurant industry. From its very own first-class chefs, restaurant own
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(NEW YORK) Sue Choi and her husband own several Korean restaurants in New York City. For their latest venture, Rib No. 7, they’ve been trying to hire servers, kitchen staff and hostesses but have had few bites so far.
“I don’t even get one single phone call, even for the whole week,” Choi told ABC News recently.
Upping the pay hasn’t helped either, she said. Pre-pandemic, Choi said they would offer $20 an hour for an experienced hostess and get “hundreds and hundreds of resumes.” Two weeks after posting a job listing for a hostess at Rib No. 7 for $30 an hour, they still hadn’t received one, she said.