Food service workers are exhausted. According to a 2017 workplace health survey, 43 percent of people in the food service industry said that work-related stress led them to engage in unhealthy behaviors like drinking or crying regularly. Half said that stress affected their relationships with friends and family.
And that was before the stress of the pandemic and its shockingly understaffed restaurants, surreal public health measures, increasingly abusive customers, stagnant wages, and disproportionate mortality rates. How do you even begin to address mental health in a field where abuse is not only normalized but often glorified?
Enter Deborah Friend Wilson of the Lakehouse in Bellevue, which she co-owns with chef (and husband) Jason Wilson. Since reopening the
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