{"id":58584,"date":"2017-03-30T06:40:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T10:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58584"},"modified":"2017-03-30T05:07:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T09:07:52","slug":"restaurant-workers-in-denver-are-asking-why-work-in-a-stressful-kitchen-when-you-can-make-22-an-hour-in-a-pot-greenhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58584","title":{"rendered":"Restaurant workers in Denver are asking: Why work in a stressful kitchen when you can make $22 an hour in a Pot greenhouse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to think of an American city that isn\u2019t experiencing a restaurant boom these days. Put Denver at the top of that list: By some accounts, 30 spots will have opened this spring, including the new Departure Denver, a popular Asian small-plates spot recently transplanted from Portland, Ore., and an outpost of the beloved New York bar, Death &#038; Company on the way.<\/p>\n<p>However, the city is facing a major problem as a result of one of its biggest recent tourism drivers. The pot industry is taking a toll on local restaurant work forces and in some cases, liquor sales. \u201cNo one is talking about it,\u201d said Bobby Stuckey, the James Beard award winning co-owner of Frasca Food and Wine in Boulder and the soon-to-open Tavernetta in Denver. \u201cBut Colorado\u2019s restaurant labor market is in Defcon 5 right now, because of weed facilities.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-03-29\/denver-s-pot-industry-has-unexpected-downside-for-restaurants\">Read it all<\/a> from Bloomberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to think of an American city that isn\u2019t experiencing a restaurant boom these days. Put Denver at the top of that list: By some accounts, 30 spots will have opened this spring, including the new Departure Denver, a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58584\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,149,597,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drugsdrug-addiction","category-economy","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58587,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58584\/revisions\/58587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}