(6 Sep 2024)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
West Hollywood, California – 6 September 2024
1. Wide of One Fair Wage team, LadyHawk staff with (L-R) Saru Jayaraman, Chrissy Teigen, June Diane Raphael, Keegan-Michael Key, Bozoma Saint John, Matt Bomer, Nischelle Turner and Ike Barinholtz
2. Wide of celebrity servers walking into restaurant
3. Tight of Keegan-Michael Key
4. Tight of June Diane Raphael with Meena Harris
5. Wide of Meena Harris chatting with the crowd
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Chrissy Teigen, model/television personality
Chrissy Teigen: "I actually worked in the service industry. I started at age 17, working in the service industry. I was a hostess and I was a part of the sub-minimum wage. But where I was working, we were strongly dependent on tips. I was working at Hooters. So, for me, it was really a game of chance. Every single day. I never knew what I was going to come home with. It was really a rollercoaster. I didn’t knew, week by week, or every two weeks, when we got our check if it would be enough to get through the month. It was just a weird way to live for a few years. And then you really realise this is happening to so many people for so long now. 30 years now the sub-minimum wage has been $2.13 cents and it is an unbelievably low amount."
7. Various of Chrissy Teigen serving customers
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair Wage and Chrissy Teigen, model/television personality
Chrissy Teigen: "Tonight is all about having fun, raising awareness for this issue and for these measures. And we’re just going to have a really good time doing it and maybe a little bad at it, a little rusty. But that’s not what tonight is about. People are going to get great food ’cause we’re here at beautiful LadyHawk. Yeah, right in the heart of West Hollywood, which also is amazing because they are supporting something like this. Of course a lot of restaurants aren’t going to want to support something like this."
Saru Jayaraman: "Yes, it’s very unique."
Chrissy Teigen: "It’s very cool of them to host us and let us have it here and I’m going to do the best I can."
9. Tight of Meena Harris with Saru Jayaraman
10. Wide of Matt Bomer
11. Wide of Keegan-Michael Key inputting orders
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair Wage and Chrissy Teigen, model/television personality
Chrissy Teigen: "Yeah, I was working in Newport Beach, living in Irvine, and I was driving, I remember it was 33.3 miles every single day up to auditions in Los Angeles, and all of my money went to gas. And at that time, gas was low. So I spent everything on gas. I was hustling. I would literally do modeling jobs for clothing trade and then I would sell the clothing to Buffalo Exchange and then that would pay for my gas because I could not afford to pursue my dreams. I mean, every single day was a battle, a struggle. And more than anything, it was a surprise. Like I never knew what I was going to come home with. And it was just a really like haywire way to work and live. And it’s stressful."
Saru Jayaraman: "Stressful."
Chrissy Teigen: "And yeah, it was just difficult. It was really difficult."
(Reporter: "It’s hard to tap into your creativity when you’re worried about finances.")
"You’re worried about money. My parents had, like, moved to Thailand and I was really on my own."
13. Wide of Ike Barinholtz making drinks
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair Wage:
15. Wide of United States Senator Kirsten Gillibran addressing crowd
16. Wide of Ike Barinholtz and Jesse Tyler Ferguson
17. Wide of Chrissy Teigen addressing crowd
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