This is Eater Voices, where chefs, restaurateurs, writers, and industry insiders share their perspectives about the food world, tackling a range of topics through the lens of personal experience. I work as a barista and a server at Communitea, in Long Island City, and I am lucky enough to work …

Van Leeuwen, a New York City-born ice cream shop with a nationwide cult following, has set its sights on Houston. A representative for Van Leeuwen confirms to Eater that the chain will expand to Houston, but declined to provide further details on where or when it will open. In early …

Rosenfeld Santiago worked as a dishwasher at one of the hottest bistros in the city. The restaurant was buzzing every night, packed with guests chasing the glow from starred reviews and an award from the James Beard Foundation. The staff would eat twice a day there, once during family meal …

Before the pandemic, eating dinner at Brooklyn restaurant Peaches Hot House meant writing a name on a whiteboard in the vestibule and waiting to be called for a table in a packed dining room. The staff would point guests to the bar while they waited, and despite the fact that …

This is the first week that New York City’s 193,000 jobless food service workers will have to make do without a $600 CARES act check, a stark financial reality that those ex-workers might need to get used to. The federal program that funds that benefit ended last week amid an …