If you love food, and if you love people, Saru Jayaraman’s new book new book wants you to help ensure the sustainability of both by taking a look into restaurant workers’ lives.

A proposal for San Bernardino County restaurants to signify whether they check employee immigration status on their health-inspection placards was rejected Tuesday.

First it was “Ching Chong” at Chick-Fil-A in Irvine then it was it was “Lady Chinky Eyes” at a Papa John’s in Harlem and now a Starbucks Barista in Georgia drawing “chinky eyes” on a cup to identify two Korean-American customers.

The first two incidents happened in Irvine, Calif., now a woman in NYC received a receipt calling her ‘lady chinky eyes.’

Noticing that all the bussers in your favorite restaurant are Latino and all the waiters white? And that black people are nowhere to be found–unless you’re grabbing fast food? It’s not a coincidence. And now there’s a guide for

A series of reports reveal how poorly employers treat the people who will make your Valentine’s dinner so nice.