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Famous Gulf Coast Restaurant and Owner Fined $1.5M for Mislabeling Seafood

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...

Wisconsin Pizza Restaurant to Pay $99K Over Child Labor Law Violations

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...

Michigan Culver’s Restaurants Sued for Discriminating Against Transgender Employee

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...

Equipment Breakdown Tops Small Restaurant Claims List

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...

Louisiana Seafood Restaurant Sued for Sexual Harassment

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...

Colorado Battles Hotel, Restaurant Industry Trade Groups Over Climate Rules

Sep 27 2024 // When it comes to climate change, there are two Chipotles.One is the fast-casual burrito chain with a focus on sustainable ingredients, an app that lets customers track the carbon footprint of their orders and a goal to...

Man Drives Car Through Restaurant Patio in Minneapolis Suburb, Killing 2

Sep 4 2024 // ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. (AP) — A man drove his car through a restaurant patio where a group of medical workers were celebrating in a Minneapolis suburb on Sunday, killing two people and injuring at least four, police and...

Popular California Restauranteur Fined $71K for Failing to Pay Overtime

Jul 18 2024 // A popular Sonoma County chef denied three workers at its Healdsburg, California establishment of more than $35,000 in overtime wages, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Investigators in the department’s Wage...

Restaurant Workers’ Battle for Higher Minimum Wage Goes National

May 29 2024 // US restaurants grappling with high costs and penny-pinching consumers are making a tough pitch to voters: that boosting pay to millions of workers is a bad idea.At least four states are set to vote on measures to make...

Massachusetts Appeals Court Upholds Restaurants’ COVID-19 Insurance Denial

May 21 2024 // In a ruling against an upscale restaurant chain, a Massachusetts Appeals Court has followed the recipe the state’s high court set forth in 2022 in ruling that the COVID-19 virus does not trigger business interruption...

The Surprising Force Stalling Climate Progress: California Restaurants

May 15 2024 // In the fight to ratchet down climate emissions and soothe the most dangerous effects of an overheating planet, one of the most withering setbacks in recent memory wasn’t delivered by the oil industry or coal...

New Mexico Restaurant Settles Wage-Theft Complaint After Prolonged Legal Battle

May 2 2024 // New Mexico labor announced a legal settlement that resolves longstanding accusations of unpaid wages against a restaurant business in northwestern New Mexico.The Workforce Solutions Department said in a news release that...

California Labor Commissioner Reaches $2M Settlement with Restaurant

Apr 8 2024 // The California Labor Commissioner’s Office reached a $2 million settlement against Pearl B-Star Inc., DBA Lin’s Fusion for underpaying 32 workers. Pearl B-Star violated state labor laws governing recordkeeping,...

Squeezed from All Sides: Restaurants Pressured by Labor, Food, Insurance Costs

Mar 18 2024 // The food services industry is anticipating record sales for 2024. But insurance specialists serving the restaurant and bar sector say that forecast isn’t all good news. With higher sales come higher costs all...

Woman Gets 5-10 Years for Workers’ Comp Scam of Family Dollar, Restaurant

Mar 1 2024 // A Delaware woman will serve 5 to 10 years in state prison for a workers’ compensation scam that spanned 2.5 years, two states, and cost a Pennsylvania employer more than $170,000, according to Pennsylvania Attorney...

Grubhub to Pay $3.5M to Massachusetts Restaurants for Overcharging During COVID

Jan 17 2024 // Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell announced a $3.5 million settlement Friday with the online food delivery service platform Grubhub.The settlement resolves a 2021 lawsuit brought by Campbell alleging Grubhub...

Woman Sues Restaurant Claiming She Found Piece of Human Finger in Chopped Salad

Nov 29 2023 // When Alison Cozzi was eating the salad, she sensed something wasn’t right. It did not take long for her to realize that she was chewing on a portion of a human finger that had been mixed into the salad.It so happened...

Fraternity and Bar Sued Over 2021 Death of University of New Hampshire Student

Nov 14 2023 // The mother of a University of New Hampshire student who died in an icy swamp two years ago filed a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday against the Durham bar and fraternity her son visited that night.Vincenzo Lirosi, 22, was...

Pennsylvania Restaurant to Pay $269K for Illegal Pay Practices, Child Labor Violations

Oct 25 2023 // A Collegeville, Pennsylvania restaurant and its owners must pay $268,660 in back wages, liquidated damages and punitive damages to satisfy a consent judgment obtained by the U.S. Department of Labor after an investigation...

California Restaurant Mutual Benefit Group Raises $100M

Oct 18 2023 // California Restaurant Mutual Benefit Corp. raised $100 million in capital over the past decade from its members and through fiscal controls.CRMBC is a California self-insured group that provides workers’ compensation...