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The restaurant industry needs to step up for women. We asked four leaders how to do it.

7 Shifts

When my friend was 22, she served at a steakhouse that mandated short dresses and heels. When she was 23, the manager asked her to put on makeup in one of her first shifts at a breakfast grill. She promptly quit. These accounts may not shock you. Things don't always improve once you're the boss, either. Remember me?I Broccoli Hot Dogs!Beet

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Feed the Rich, Save the Planet?

EATER

Now, its mission is linked more than ever to fine dining destination Blue Hill at Stone Barns and a famous chef’s vision for trickle-down change. On the morning of February 7, 2020, office employees at the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture filed one by one into meetings with management. Some came out crying. It was not a gentle pivot.