The Restaurateur Encouraging a Healthy Workplace
Photo Caption: Poster creator Karen Leibowitz is co-founder and partner at San Francisco restaurant The Perennial.
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Culture around harassment and fair treatment in the restaurant industry and beyond is changing — but it takes effort and action to continue to move toward a post-harassment ideal.
It’s been a year of ups and downs in the restaurant industry’s #metoo movement as the strength and resilience of survivors is on display alongside the disappointment of troubling accusations and reports of abuse and harassment.
Karen Leibowitz, co-founder and partner at San Francisco-based restaurants The Perennial and Mission Chinese Food, is ushering working kitchens across the country into what she called the “next stage in our culture” and the message is clear: sexual harassment will not be tolerated.
Her medium: a bright, approachable poster (designed by Brooklyn designer Kelli Anderson a
