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What happened to all the restaurant workers? 'Brave Little State' serves up an answer

A picture of a restaurant with red booths and a black and white checkered floor
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The Guilty Plate Diner in Colchester reopened under new ownership in September 2022. This hour, Vermont Edition airs a recent Brave Little State on staffing and the local restaurant industry.

What happened to all the restaurant workers? This was the winning question asked by Khrista Trerotola of Waitsfield on a recent episode of Brave Little State. We'll listen to the full episode on today's Vermont Edition and follow that with a conversation between host Connor Cyrus and a local restaurant owner about their own staffing story.

Our guest:

  • Allison Stratton, co-owner of in Fairfax, Charlotte, Richmond, and Waterbury

Broadcast Friday, Jan. 6, at noon.

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Connor Cyrus was co-host and senior producer of Vermont Edition from 2021-2023.
Matt Smith worked for ¿ªÔÆÌåÓý from 2017 to 2023 as managing editor and senior producer of Vermont Edition.
Andrea Laurion joined ¿ªÔÆÌåÓý as a news producer for Vermont Edition in December 2022. She is a native of Pittsburgh, Pa., and a graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine. Before getting into audio, Andrea worked as an obituary writer, a lunch lady, a wedding photographer assistant, a children’s birthday party hostess, a haunted house actor, and an admin assistant many times over.