{"id":315306,"date":"2026-08-06T16:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T16:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315306\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T16:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T16:34:17","slug":"vital-city-complexity-on-the-menu-the-state-of-new-york-citys-restaurant-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315306\/","title":{"rendered":"Vital City | Complexity on the Menu: The State of New York City’s Restaurant Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vital City | Complexity on the Menu: The State of New York City’s Restaurant Industry <\/p>\n

\"A Ian Berry \/ Magnum Photos Jamie talks to Andrew Rigie about how New York’s restaurants, which employ nearly 280,000 people, still face high bureaucratic hurdles. <\/p>\n

Andrew Rigie was 5 years old when he started rolling rugelach at his grandfather’s Brooklyn bakery at 4:30 in the morning. Now he runs the New York City Hospitality Alliance, which represents an industry that employs more than a quarter-million people, pays more than $11 billion in wages and generates around $2.8 billion a year in sales tax revenue. In this episode of “After Hours with Jamie Rubin,” Rigie explains why the handful of restaurants you can’t get a table at is a misleading picture of the other 24,000, how Bloomberg’s letter-grade rating system saw Health Department fines spike without a corresponding drop in foodborne illness \u2014 and how a $30 minimum wage threatens to turn a busy neighborhood restaurant’s $100,000 profit into a $380,000 loss.<\/p>\n

As always, you can listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts<\/a> or Spotify<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jamie Rubin<\/a> is the chief investment officer of Aligned Climate Capital and chairman of the board of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA). <\/p>\n

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