Destigmatizing Mental Illness in the Restaurant Industry Is an Ongoing Fight | Eater

"A Sacramento restaurant known for pioneering farm-to-fork practices and aggressively cutting food waste, with a notable back room used for high-level meetings. After a string of deaths in the local hospitality community, the owner launched a peer-led mental health initiative called “I Got Your Back,” partnering with health and philanthropic organizations to train identifiable peer mentors (marked by a purple hand) to spot distress, check in with coworkers, and provide near-peer support. The restaurant also hosts seminars and is developing online resources, aiming to scale the program across all types of eateries and into other states." - J. Ama Mantey