diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 37d08d930d..9c88e1568f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -97,6 +97,11 @@ development server encounters.  It runs on top of Django's "manage.py
 runserver" tool, which will automatically restart the Zulip server
 whenever you save changes to Python code.
 
+However, the Zulip queue workers will not automatically restart when
+you save changes, so you will need to ctrl-C and then restart
+`run-dev.py` manually if you are testing changes to the queue workers
+or if a queue worker has crashed.
+
 Using provision.py without Vagrant
 ----------------------------------