//Corporate Restaurant Owners: Your Silence Is Deafening

Corporate Restaurant Owners: Your Silence Is Deafening

On Monday, Karmen Elaine, a restaurant worker in downtown Detroit, asked a friend to publish a Facebook post in response to the silence of her corporate restaurant group’s management team in the midst of a pandemic, a recession, and nationwide protests over police brutality in black communities. The original post discusses not only the “passivity” of her employers, but also indicts an industry whose labor force is largely composed of black and brown workers who are rarely provided with opportunities