Restaurant Industry Diversity Lags, As 'World's 50 Best Restaurant' List Shows: Despite the 2013 world's best restaurant hailing from Spain, you'd be hard pressed to find a person of color among the annual ranking of highly regarded chefs. And according to a report by news site RH Reality Check, the problem extends beyond the restaurant industry's upper echelon.
"We tend not to realize that diversity is not the same as equity -- that simply seeing a lot of restaurant workers from different backgrounds doesn't mean that restaurant workers have equal opportunities to advance to jobs that will allow them support themselves and their families," says Saru Jayaraman, director of the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC) in her book "Behind the Kitchen Door," published earlier this year.
