A foot in the kitchen door | Chicago Tribune
July 2nd, 2007As the restaurant industry increasingly employs an immigrant workforce, it becomes even more important to address language and cultural barriers. This article in the Chicago Tribune focuses on the growing immigrant presence in the Chicago and national food service industry.
Bound by necessity, newcomers and restaurants forge shared future
Kitchen workers–all of them Mexican–huddled around a man who flipped sausage chunks onto a deep-dish pizza with the lightning-quick wrist snap of a blackjack dealer. Wearing a crisp Lou Malnati’s polo shirt, he was teaching them the right way to build a Chicago food classic.