One of Seattle’s most celebrated restaurants temporarily closed this week after a labor dispute moved from the bargaining table to the sidewalk, with management claiming customer harassment from the picket line.
The latest: Workers and management reached a tentative agreement Wednesday evening that is expected to end the strike at The Walrus and the Carpenter restaurant, Ford Nickel, secretary-treasurer of United Creatures of the Sea told Axios.
The big picture: The acclaimedBallard restaurant, which helped define fine dining in Seattle, is the flagship of James Beard-winning chef Renee Erickson’s Sea Creatures restaurant group…