Martha Hoover has removed “bro culture” from the recipe of her restaurant empire with good benefits and anti-bias training. Inhale … exhale. Servers, cooks and bartenders sit in rows of chairs in an Indianapolis restaurant doing a square breathing exercise. They’re here for a mandatory training session, and their boss wants to create a calm atmosphere in the space. This afternoon, they’ll do some role-playing. The mere fact that Patachou Restaurant Group’s employees are here sets them apart: Restaurant culture, long male-dominated with a fast pace and boozy late nights, is not typically friendly toward implicit bias training. But Martha Hoover, a former sex crimes prosecutor, is not the typical restaurant CEO. After the square breathing is done, she takes the microphone to tell her employees that recognizing their own bias is the first step toward overcoming it. | 