The restaurant inside the Walker Art Center is replacing its front-of-house staff with QR codes and a counter service model starting Wednesday.
A spokesperson for DDP Restaurant Group, which owns Cardamom, confirmed employees were notified of layoffs on Thursday. Employees will receive severance pay due to the short notice, according to their email.
Olivia Martin, the DDP Restaurant Group social media coordinator, said in a Saturday email to MPR News the change has been discussed for several years as Cardamom’s guest traffic relies on Walker events and seasonality…