All the headlines from our Restaurant Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 17 2025 // Simply Slims, L.L.C., doing business as Slim Chickens, will pay $300,000 and provide other relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency...
Sep 26 2025 // CIC Services LLC and the Ragnar Group Inc. have launched a captive domiciled in Utah focused on the hospitality sector.The companies say the captive is intended to solve the challenge of being misclassified. The new group...
Sep 22 2025 // The California Labor Commissioner’s Office cited J BBQ, a Koreatown restaurant, more than $680,000 for wage theft violations.A total of 48 workers were impacted by the violations, which included unpaid wages, denied...
Sep 8 2025 // The California Labor Commissioner’s Office cited J BBQ, a Koreatown restaurant, more than $680,000 for wage theft violations.A total of 48 workers were impacted by the violations, which included unpaid wages, denied...
Aug 25 2025 // Braxton Kimura dreads eating at restaurants. The California teenager is severely allergic to peanuts, shellfish and most tree nuts. Consuming even a tiny amount could send him to the emergency room.“Eating out is...
Jul 23 2025 // Austin, TX., July 23, 2025 — The Risk & Insurance Education Alliance is proud to announce the launch of the Restaurant RiskPRO Certification, the latest specialized program in its innovative RiskPRO Certification...
Jun 12 2025 // The former owner and manager of the Royal India Cuisine restaurants in Kirkland and Lynnwood, Washington, face multiple felony theft charges for failing to pay employees nearly $45,000 from 2021 to 2023.Mohammad Rashid...
May 22 2025 // SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP)— One of Rhode Island’s most famous restaurants has been damaged after a fire broke out early Tuesday morning.Union Fire District Steve Pinch says firefighters arrived at 3:45 a.m. to find...
Mar 24 2025 // A Southern California restaurant has been fined more than $1.1 million over wage theft and sick leave violations. The California Labor Commissioner’s Office took the action against Food Source LLC, a Buena Park...
Mar 24 2025 // This year restaurants and bars continue to grapple with many of the same challenges they faced in 2024. The rising cost of labor and food, along with the ongoing struggle to recruit and retain employees, remain among the...
Mar 7 2025 // A Southern California restaurant has been fined more than $1.1 million over wage theft and sick leave violations. The California Labor Commissioner’s Office took the action against Food Source LLC, a Buena Park...
Dec 27 2024 // Four Minneapolis restaurants with shared ownership will pay $105,784 in back wages, damages and penalties to resolve violations identified by U.S. Department of Labor, including illegally firing an employee who cooperated...
Dec 23 2024 // A federal court has ordered the owner of three West Michigan taco restaurants to pay 177 workers a total of $823,326 after the court granted the U.S. Department of Labor’s request for summary judgment, concluding...
Dec 20 2024 // The U.S. Department of Labor obtained a consent judgment and order in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Dec. 2, 2024, that requires D’Nuez Corp. and owners Antonio Rendon and Albino...
Dec 16 2024 // Courts across the country have overwhelmingly ruled in favor of insurance carriers in claims disputes following the government-ordered closures of businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. The North Carolina Supreme Court...
Nov 20 2024 // GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi Gulf Coast restaurant and its co-owner it were sentenced Monday on federal charges of mislabeling inexpensive imported seafood as local premium fish.Mary Mahoney’s Old French...
Nov 15 2024 // A Wisconsin pizza restaurant has agreed to pay $99,000 in fines after a Department of Labor investigation found the business assigned teenage employees to dangerous duties.Investigators found Pizza Parlor and owner...
Oct 29 2024 // Five related entities operating Culver’s restaurants in Michigan violated federal law when they fired a transgender employee and three of his colleagues after they complained about harassment, the U.S. Equal...
Oct 21 2024 // With restaurant sales projected to top $1 trillion and reach record-breaking heights this year, a California-based insurance technology company versed in the space recently analyzed data from more than 30,000 small...
Oct 1 2024 // Minden Seafood, LLC, a seafood restaurant in Minden, Louisiana, violated federal law when it failed to stop a male worker from repeatedly sexually harassing a female employee and refused to rehire her after she quit, the...