Feeding The Giant

An award-winning mini-documentary series that tells the stories of restaurant workers across America. Although geographically disparate, each story told of a similar struggle – a struggle to survive on a tipped minimum federal wage that has not been raised in 26 years – a struggle to live in a system of economic oppression in which low wages act as a catalyst for other forms of hardship, such as sexual harassment, lack of paid sick leave, and racial and gender discrimination. And yet each story brought with it an underlying joy in working to bring others together over a shared meal. Feeding The Giant was a selected project on the 2016 Millennial Trains Project, received a grant from Comcast NBCUniversal, and was a Communication Arts Webpick. Chef Samin Nostrat, Netflix host of Salt Fat Acid Heat, tweeted about Feeding The Giant, saying, “Everyone who works in food or eats food in America needs to watch these videos.”