- Saru Jayaraman is the President and Co-Founder of One Fair Wage (OFW), a national organization, campaign and coalition fighting for a full, fair minimum wage for every person who works in America with Tips on TOP
- There are 14 million restaurant workers in the US
- Saru authored Behind the Kitchen Door (Cornell University Press, 2013), a national bestseller, Forked: A New Standard for American Dining (Oxford University Press, 2016), and most recently One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America (New Press 2021).
- She was listed in CNN’s “Top10 Visionary Women” and recognized as a Champion of Change by the White House in 2014, and a James Beard Foundation Leadership Award in 2015.
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