420 with CNW – Marijuana Industry in Colorado Helping Restaurant Employees
Up to now, the restaurant and cannabis industries have had an interesting relationship. When states started legalizing marijuana and the industry really started picking up, restaurants started feeling the strain. As Kevin Burke, General Manager of Denver-based restaurant Morin says, restaurants were already struggling with what was effectively negative fifteen percent unemployment. The growing popularity of cannabis-infused meals strained the already scarce human resource. "Qualified cooks could walk across the street and get a fifty cents per hour raise, and when cannabis called, they were getting a two, three dollar per hour raise," he says. He acknowledges that the industry…