It is significantly less productive to hand wash dishes. But that’s fine to do manually if you wish for something that takes up maybe half an hour of your own time every several days. It’s not fine if washing dishes is your job. No company is going to hire an artisanal dish hand washer that refuses to use a dishwasher.

> And other people choose to wash dishes by hand and they're fine with it and not significantly less productive. The use of a dishwasher wasn't forced on everyone.

That's completely, demonstratively false. Our dishwasher broke and we couldn't replace it for a month for different reasons – it was a complete nightmare. Without dishwasher:

- You need to have a space to store dirty dishes

- You must wash them right away, unless you want smell of rotten food that attracts all sorts of nasty from insects to rodents

- You need to have a big enough kitchen sink to wash comfortably

- You need to have a steady supply of hot water in the kitchen

- You need to have a supply of latex gloves, unless you want your hands to look like they're 50 years old

- You need to have a drying rack

- It takes a shitton of time compared to loading dishwasher, starting it and forgetting about it

- You need to clean up everything after you're done

I've worked in dish pit.

I can tell you that I didn't observe a single hand-wash-only holdout.

Perhaps such holdouts existed at a point, but a restaurant can only flatter the ego of their performatively-unproductive seniors for so long. Competition exists.

It's actually less productive for dishwasher-safe dishes, there's simply no question about that.

Hand-washing dishes also, from what I understand, uses more energy and water than the dishwasher does.

It's less productive and it's less water efficient.

i wonder what people in restaurants use and why