How Top Trends Are Impacting Restaurants in 2017

3 Min Read By Jesse Noyes

On Friday, February 17, 2017, hundreds of restaurant workers across the country were fired.

No matter the restaurant industry trend, one thing is clear: how restaurateurs respond is imperative.

The day before was A Day Without Immigrants, a planned national protest designed to highlight the role of foreigners in America. Some restaurants responded by giving their employees the day off or closing shop altogether. Some responded by adding a special note about immigrant workers at the bottom of their customer receipts.

Some responded by firing the employees who missed their shifts.

The decision of how to respond to unprecedented situations like this one can be a complicated one. It includes elements like morals and values, political ideals, and profit margins. In today’s world, things are rapidly changing and the restaurant industry is affected by most of them because, since food is so culturally central, everything from politics to social norms intersects within its doors.

As any…