Restaurant Jobs Are Increasing, Why Is That Bad?

This edition of the Chefs+Tech newsletter was sent on 8/14/2017. Subscribe to get the latest in your inbox.  Restaurant Jobs Are Increasing, Why Is That Bad? Food service jobs are growing, which on the surface feels like good news for the economy. But as a piece in The Atlantic points out, restaurant jobs are growing faster than any other sector, and they often pay far less than the manufacturing jobs that previously made up the fast-growing portions of the country’s economy. “The U.S. still makes stuff, but mostly it serves stuff,” writes the author. And it’s true, restaurants are booming. More than a quarter of new jobs created in July of this year were in food service, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics: 53,100 in food service to 16,000 in manufacturing in the same time frame, something the National Restaurant Association seems happy with. So what’s the problem? For one, there’s some thought that the U.S. has too many restaurants, and that this type of gr