Your guide for dealing with restaurant customers who creep you out or sexually harass you.
An all-women team created the Color Code of Conduct system at Homeroom, a mac and cheese restaurant in Oakland, CA. In collaboration with Homeroom CEO Erin Wade, Catalina and Lindsey spearheaded the project from the server side of things.
And the system works. It turns out that very few people head straight to the red-zone. When you identify creepy behavior at the yellow and orange level and change the power dynamics immediately, it prevents code red situations from occurring. Over the last three years, Homeroom has served over a million mac and cheeses with only a handful of code reds on the restaurant floor during that time.
Erin created Not On The Menu to make sure more restaurants had access to this real solution for addressing sexual harassment from customers.
Your guide for dealing with restaurant customers who creep you out or sexually harass you.
An all-women team created the Color Code of Conduct system at Homeroom, a mac and cheese restaurant in Oakland, CA. In collaboration with Homeroom CEO Erin Wade, Catalina and Lindsey spearheaded the project from the server side of things.
Erin created
Not On The Menu
to make sure more restaurants had access to this real solution for addressing sexual harassment from customers.
Erin is both badass and bookworm. Here are a few of her favorite recent reads:
"Success means getting better problems."
"Advancing women means breaking free of a new set of stereotypes and assumptions, not only for women, but also for men. It means challenging a much wider range of conventional wisdom about what we value and why, about measures of success, about the wellsprings of human nature and what equality really means. It means rethinking everything from workplace design to life stages to leadership style."
"Humans don't mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary."
"Successful group decision-making requires a group to take advantage of the full range of experience and skills that reside in its membership. This means encouraging people to speak up. It means inviting difference, not fearing it. It means struggling to understand one another, especially in the face of the pressures and contradictions that typically drive group members to shut down. In short, it means operating from participatory values."
"We learn to deny our longings and our skills, and to do work that occupies our hours without inspiring our greatness."