"everyone needs to be paying their workers"

image by Rachel Adler
image by Rachel Adler
image by Rachel Adler

Because Starr is a bold-faced named in Philadelphia, Cohn hopes any change that happens at Talula’s Garden trickles down to other restaurants. “If you are trying to hold someone accountable who sets an industry standard in Philadelphia and, in some ways, along the entire East Coast,” she says, “it sends a message to smaller restaurateurs that wage theft is no longer an acceptable industry standard, and that everyone needs to be paying their workers.”

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