Restaurant dishwasher is often mistaken for an easy entry job, but it’s fast-paced hard work that is among a dining establishment’s most important roles. “Nobody talks about these unsung ...

Sophia Velador grabs a stack of plates in the dish pit at Alder & Sage in Long Beach on Jan. 2, 2025. She takes three buses from Anaheim to Long Beach and travels about one and a half hours to get ...

“No thank you,” she tells them. “I’m fine where I am.” To outsiders, the job of a dishwasher is the bottom rung in a restaurant, a gross, difficult and ultimately undesirable job. But it's arguably ...