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California’s Kitchen Nightmare: Union Demands Rise as Enrollment Falls

Imagine a restaurant that is losing customers. Instead of cutting back, the owner hires more servers. As revenues decline, the waiters demand higher pay and more busboys to help them serve fewer customers. That might sound like the premise of an episode of Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. But something very similar is happening right now...
By Michael Hartney | March 19, 2026