Restaurant Opportunities Center

[2] ROC conducts workplace campaigns to encourage restaurant owners to increase wages and improve working conditions for employees.

Since the split in 2019, ROC has returned to its roots of workplace organizing, local policy work, and workforce development.

In 2020, ROC United raised around one million dollars to support unemployed & underemployed restaurant workers during the height of the pandemic.

[15][16][17] In 2023, ROC United was recognized by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for its work to address dangers and hazards of heat exposure in the restaurant industry.

[18] Later in 2023, ROC United supported employees from the South Park-themed entertainment center in sending a petition to management, demanding more transparency and better communication on a number of issues.