James Beard Foundation Reaches Out to Displaced Restaurant Workers

by Deidre Woollard, Posted Sep 3rd 2005 @ 10:11AM

The James Beard Foundation is serving as a resource for restaurant owners and workers displaced by Hurricane Katrina. There is the Nation Restaurant News Hurricane Katrina blog which has restaurant-specific news regarding New Orleans. There is also a place to post jobs, look for jobs and make donations. New Orleans has a long culinary tradition and hopefully the chefs and other restaurant workers will rally around their own.

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Filed Under: Chefs & Restaurants, Restaurants
Tags: hurricane+katrina, HurricaneKatrina, restaurant

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9-03-2005 @11:42AM Sylvie said... I think this is very important and necessary. However, keep in mind that a large majority of the restaurant workers displaced include the lower income workers who do not have internet access and will not know that this support exists. They also have the greatest need and are subject to being left behind.

There must also be a mechanism besides just word of mouth to reach these people. For example postings in many of the shelters. I would like to hope that in these shelters there will eventually be something like job fairs to identify those workers. Someone from the foundation will need to assure these people are also included.
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