The Reality of It Is

Service Industry During Covid-19

Chef Brendan discusses the changes that restaurant businesses have had to make during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Brendan is one of the Head Chef’s at Old Thousand, located in Austin; Texas. Bonus* Brendan also shares how to make starter to bake your own bread! “Obviously, stay home, stay safe, and stay sanitary. Keeping yourself healthy keeps the community healthy. Be dope, use soap. Distance socially. I hope you're doing well.” - Brendan Old Thousand is providing 20 meals a day for unemployed service industry workers. Email your name, place of unemployment, and any food allergies to brendan@oldthousandatx.com to reserve a meal. @Minamotofoods is also providing meals, and can be reserved by INSTA DM A Taste of KoKo & MYLK Collective launched Hundred for Hospitality to raise money to provide 100 meals a day to service industry workers that have been laid off by a restaurant affected by COVID-19. Here’s how you can help: 1. Make an individual donation here to contribute to stipends for restaurants to feed more of our friends in the service industry 2 If you’re a restaurant who is able to donate food, email chelsea@365thingsaustin.com 3. If you or your company are interested in sponsoring a day of meals, email jane@atasteofkoko.com If you’re a service professional in need of assistance, please join our meals directory here: https://forms.gle/Xt9EqBsuEkuRjBfP8 More info here: hundredforhospitality.com www.gofundme.com/f/hundred-for-hospitality More Resources: -https://theaustinspirit.com/2020/03/17/resources-for-austin-service-industry-affected-by-covid-19-closures/ -https://form.southernsmoke.org/smoke/application/ -https://ofwemergencyfund.org/ Book Referrals: -Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking by Michael Ruhlman -Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza by Ken Forkish -The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science by Cherie Mason & J. Kenji López-Alt -The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs Kindle Edition by Karen Page The Atlantic: “During the Great Recession of 2007–2009, the economy suffered a net loss of approximately 9 million jobs. The pandemic recession has seen nearly 10 million unemployment claims in just two weeks. Some states are convulsing at a rate of one Great Recession every few days….Our economic data, like our public-health data, are shrouded in uncertainty: In many cases, we simply don’t know whether our more dire statistics are measuring reality or we have simply maxed out our capacity to measure in the first place.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/economy-ruined-it-didnt-have-be-way/609334/ OldThousandatx.com Bartonhillfarms.com

Work, Work, Work

Work, Work, Work What do you want to be when you grow up? Jordan and I discuss the difficulties of societal expectations and how they’re tied to work and debt. This was recorded before Covid-19 spread in the United States. “The price tags for tuition and fees at colleges and universities have risen twice as fast as wages, if not more, in recent years. Rental costs are outpacing wage gains by a percentage point or more a year. Health-care costs have grown twice as fast as workers’ wages. And child-care costs have exploded. These cost pressures are particularly acute on young Americans who have seen worse employment prospects and smaller raises than their older counterparts.” Lowrey, Annie. (2020, February) The Great Affordability Crisis Breaking America In one of the best decades the American economy has ever recorded, families were bled dry. The Atlantic. Retrieved from https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/great-affordability-crisis-breaking-america/606046/?fbclid=IwAR1dwzPLRY4QBVCBdfPW-K2lXMPCPK7ykuSBOsqlHT49uUuYCC-hjKVgBJ4 The Reality Of It Is with Pants Optional PantsOptional.Co

Oy Vey: Parents

Oy Vey: Parents by Maria Salmeron

Rejection

What it's like to feel rejected and bounce back.

Expectations

Expectations and reality are sometimes different. A good friend explains how becoming a new dad was different than what he anticipated and incorrectly learned from media.