“Everything luxetarian is built on somebody’s back; somebody has to pay”: World’s best restaurant is closing due to labour issues

A highly recommend read. What jumps at me from this article is that online/workers pressure works. Here are a few quotes: “We have to completely rethink the industry.This is simply too hard, and we have to work in a different way.” “The human cost of the industry comes under scrutiny with media reporting and online activism critical of Noma’s treatment of foreign workers and reliance on unpaid interns. In October, Noma began paying its interns, adding at least $50,000 to its monthly labor costs.” “I hope we can prove to the world that you can grow old and be creative and have fun in the industry, instead of hard, grueling, low-paid work under poor management conditions that wears people out.”