Razed and exposed, the restaurant industry is due for change

What happens when a restaurant can’t pay the rent? What’s happening in Los Angeles, what options the restaurants have and what the experts say.

Many of the questions stem from the inherent brokenness of the restaurant model in America. Our government provides no safety nets for the low-wage, often undocumented workers upon whose labor the industry runs. A bio-network of businesses — farmers, meat and fish suppliers, wine and spirits makers and distributors, architects, linen services — begins to collapse when restaurants can’t feed customers to capacity, or when restaurants close altogether.

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