Chefs and Restaurants

Download Plate’s Naxolone Resources and Overdose-Reversal Posters

Caroline Hatchett

The opioid crisis disproportionately affects the restaurant industry. Of all professions, America’s restaurant workers are the second most likely to die of an overdose. And with the rise of fentanyl contamination of the U.S. drug supply, bar, club, and restaurant owners now have to prepare for the day when a customer will overdose on-premise. As daunting as it sounds, restaurants can also play an outsized role in reversing opioid deaths by training workers how to...