Chef Charlie Hallowell Announces 12 Point Plan to Return to Restaurants | Eater SF

"At Pizzaiolo I report that Charlie Hallowell stepped away without pay in December after allegations surfaced, and in his apology letter he outlines concrete and performative measures tied to the restaurant: he says a monthly dunk tank will be set up in the backyard where anyone can dunk him, he plans to restart a Sunday supper program donating 20% of Sunday-night profits to a home for battered women and survivors of domestic abuse, and he proposes Friday office hours for employees. He also says he has hired a third-party HR company, formed an all-female board of advisers for his company, and added Donna Insalaco as an outright co-owner and managing partner with the power to fire him and set his pay; he writes that he has begun therapy and is working with a men’s accountability group. The restaurant signs off with a note that feeding people is at the core of what it does." - Caleb Pershan