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Lisa Lind Dunbar spent 14 years working in Danish restaurants and has worked in some of the world's top-rated restaurants in Copenhagen. She began posting on social media about the darker side of these top-rated restaurants and has written articles and appeared on TV discussing the darker side of fine dining in Copenhagen. She is committed to creating equitable spaces within the restaurant industry, dismantling the status quo of top-down dominance of working conditions, for real, systemic change, and for workers to be afforded the rights they have been owed for too long.
Lisa Lind Dunbar is on the show with David and Paige this week to discuss what’s happening in the restaurant industry right now and her experience of the industry from within. She shares why she took to posting on Instagram to draw back the curtain on what happens to hospitality employees behind the scenes. Lisa also discusses the misogyny that is prevalent in the restaurant industry, which contributed to her decision not to return to the sector.
“Wage theft, discrimination, and exploitation are a regular thing to a degree that is almost unfathomable.” - Lisa Lind Dunbar
“There's a line of people just applying to work for free because that is how the industry sadly works.” - Lisa Lind Dunbar
“Macho culture exists in the restaurant industry; it’s a sort of deeply practiced patriarchal way of going about things.” - Lisa Lind Dunbar
This week on Disarming Data:
●Some background on the restaurant industry in Copenhagen, Denmark, and its rapid growth over the last 20 years
●Events leading up to Lisa’s decision to post on Instagram about her experience of working in the hospitality sector
●Why Lisa was so surprised to get so many direct responses to her social media posts about working in restaurants
●Why Lisa believes that it’s so critical to reveal the issues of unpaid labor in restaurants, how it works, and how common it is
●What happened after Lisa contacted Atlas magazine and how that led to her taking part in a debate on national television
●How Lisa put together a plan B for her life and career and what she hopes to do in the future
●The misogyny inherent in the restaurant industry
●The patriarchal oppression of women in the industry
●How Lisa’s complex PTSD is still triggered by what she experienced in the restaurant industry
●Whether the pandemic forced restaurants to shift their mindset on how they treat staff
●Lisa’s thoughts on how to prioritize the health and well-being of workers
Listen To Disarming Data
•https://availableon.com/disarmingdata
Connect with Lisa Lind Dunbar:
● https://lisalinddunbar.com/
Connect with Disarming Data:
●David Biderman on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-t-biderman-3337b45/
●https://www.disarmingdata.com/
●Paige Biderman on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/paige-biderman-07a56a225/
Disarming Data Is Produced By The Podcast Haven
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Lisa Lind Dunbar is on the show with David and Paige this week to discuss what’s happening in the restaurant industry right now and her experience of the industry from within. She shares why she took to posting on Instagram to draw back the curtain on what happens to hospitality employees behind the scenes. Lisa also discusses the misogyny that is prevalent in the restaurant industry, which contributed to her decision not to return to the sector.
“Wage theft, discrimination, and exploitation are a regular thing to a degree that is almost unfathomable.” - Lisa Lind Dunbar
“There's a line of people just applying to work for free because that is how the industry sadly works.” - Lisa Lind Dunbar
“Macho culture exists in the restaurant industry; it’s a sort of deeply practiced patriarchal way of going about things.” - Lisa Lind Dunbar
This week on Disarming Data:
●Some background on the restaurant industry in Copenhagen, Denmark, and its rapid growth over the last 20 years
●Events leading up to Lisa’s decision to post on Instagram about her experience of working in the hospitality sector
●Why Lisa was so surprised to get so many direct responses to her social media posts about working in restaurants
●Why Lisa believes that it’s so critical to reveal the issues of unpaid labor in restaurants, how it works, and how common it is
●What happened after Lisa contacted Atlas magazine and how that led to her taking part in a debate on national television
●How Lisa put together a plan B for her life and career and what she hopes to do in the future
●The misogyny inherent in the restaurant industry
●The patriarchal oppression of women in the industry
●How Lisa’s complex PTSD is still triggered by what she experienced in the restaurant industry
●Whether the pandemic forced restaurants to shift their mindset on how they treat staff
●Lisa’s thoughts on how to prioritize the health and well-being of workers
Listen To Disarming Data
•https://availableon.com/disarmingdata
Connect with Lisa Lind Dunbar:
● https://lisalinddunbar.com/
Connect with Disarming Data:
●David Biderman on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-t-biderman-3337b45/
●https://www.disarmingdata.com/
●Paige Biderman on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/paige-biderman-07a56a225/
Disarming Data Is Produced By The Podcast Haven
https://thepodcasthaven.com