If the Times’ statement about the agreement with the Guild is true, they’re unlikely to end up in court. Escárcega had a chance to challenge her classification and failed to do so.
So far I don’t see that the Guild has issued a statement in support of her claim, though it’s only been a few days.
They paid Addison 50% more because they had to. He was Eater’s national critic. You don’t get someone to leave a plum gig like that by offering them a salary cut and a much smaller expense account.
Not true at all. He covers most of those, but the majority of the reviews he’s written are of inexpensive places. Overall he’s reviewed the same kind of broad range as Jonathan Gold. He cast a similar wide net when he was Eater’s national critic.
Escárcega is a food writer at the Arizona Republic and was the restaurant reviewer at the Phoenix New Times, an alt weekly, for three years