Continental Lunch

May 09, 2011


Oh, what wouldn’t I give right now to be sitting in some cozy bistro griping about how long my lunch is taking? Let’s remember all the cooks and waiters and dishwashers and managers in the restaurant trade, who—in a literal sense—have been on the front lines of the economic downturn. Theirs were among the first jobs to disappear and probably will be the last to reappear. The food-service trade is a notoriously marginal trade, and we know all those pre-pandemic jobs aren’t coming back. We miss you and hope to see you somewhere when this is all past.