Photo Credit: rocny.org
High Road Restaurant week will celebrate restaurants with fair labor practices; well treated people = a better planet. High Road Restaurant Week, the first of its kind, seeks to encourage better business models that benefit people and communities throughout the city.
Twenty-seven Manhattan and fourteen Brooklyn restaurants will be celebrated, some offering specials and prix fixe menus. Check out the full line up here.
Locally you can visit:
iCi Restaurant, 246 Dekalb Avenue
The Smoke Joint, 87 South Elliot Place
Marietta, 285 Grand Avenue
High Road restaurants are promoted by the Restaurant Opportunities Center United (ROC). Restaurateurs are encouraged to join ROC’s New York City Restaurant Industry Roundtable, a collaboration of restaurant employers, workers, consumers, and ROC-NY who come together to promote “alternative, ethical models of doing business in the industry”. The Roundtable meets regularly to develop and share strategies that will help restaurants take the “high road” to profitability.
What makes a High Road Restaurant?
- Complies with city, state and federal laws governing employment, as well as requirements set forth by the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
- Creates a respectful work environment free from hostility or abuse.
- Makes training, reference materials, and the opportunity to be promoted available to all staff.
- Offers a regularly updated employee manual and establishes a neutral grievance procedure.
- Offers health care options to its employees, or at minimum, helps employees obtain access to information on affordable health care in New York.
- Works toward providing paid sick days and other forms of paid time off to all staff
To learn more or get involved today visit ROC‘s website or connect via Facebook and promote via social media using the hashtag #HighRoadNY.
