If the government won't help restaurant workers, David Chang will go on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
In a dire illustration of America’s inability to serve its citizens during a deadly pandemic, celebrity chef and TV host David Chang went on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? to help an ailing restaurant industry that continues to be ignored by an ineffectual government.
The good news is that he won $1 million for the Southern Smoke Foundation, a crisis relief organization serving imperiled hospitality workers. The bad news is that restaurant workers who can’t work without putting themselves or their customers in danger have to rely on game show winnings to give them a break. Chang’s win comes just as millions are preparing to lose their unemployment benefits the day after Christmas. Hope everyone in Congress had a great Thanksgiving break!
Chang knew the stakes going in. “Since the government won’t help out restaurant workers,” Chang tweeted on Sunday, “we have to do what we can to help out.”