‘The Bear’ is not trending here

Earlier this week, American comedy-drama The Bear won big at the 81st Golden Globe Awards, clinching the Best Television Comedy, with lead stars Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri also winning in the acting categories. Chef Thomas Zacharias, founder of the multi-format culinary outfit, The Locavore who has worked with The Bombay Canteen in Mumbai and pan-India restaurant-chain Olive Group, says that the problematic aspects of the hospitality industry can range from gruelling work hours to a “sense of servitude” in the chain of command. “That entire mindset is shifting—people now understand that without a happy workforce, the restaurant is going to suffer, guests are going to suffer, and there’s going to be a lot of attrition,” says Shah, who started his all-vegetarian, South-East Asian diner three years ago. “I know chef friends who have had hires saying that they didn’t want to continue working at their previous jobs because of the culture,” he says. And that’s a change I would definitely want to see in the community,” says Apoorva Kohli, 21, winner of the prestigious 50 Best Bars The Blend Scholarship and a mixologist with famed Delhi bar Sidecar, summing up the new perspectives of a generation of F&B warriors on the precipice of what hopefully is a new dawn.