> Many restaurant owners in the bay area are annoyed at Google and Facebook, because they keep on hiring away their line cooks and other staff with higher pay a

> Many restaurant owners in the bay area are annoyed at Google and Facebook, because they keep on hiring away their line cooks and other staff with higher pay and better benefits. To be fair, and this is certainly the case in the UK for all but the 0.1% of absolute best restaurants, this is not a terribly high bar for Google and Facebook to stagger over. Restaurant pay is, by and large (and even in restaurants that serve good food), not good at all.