Restaurants Are the New Factories
Food-service jobs are eating the economy. Maybe that’s not a good thing.
by Derek Thompson
Aug 09, 2017
2 minutes
Donald Trump's ideal economy is defined by brawn. He praises steelworkers, speaks wistfully of coal mining, and tweets boastfully about new manufacturing factories. But 200 days into his presidency, the most promising sector of the U.S. labor market isn’t steel-plating. It’s dinner-plating.
Restaurant jobs are on fire in 2017, growing faster than health care, construction, or manufacturing. The Bureau of Labor Statistics
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