All the headlines from our Restaurant Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 26 2019 // Health officials say a barbeque restaurant in North Carolina may have sickened about a dozen people with salmonella. A press release from the Nash County Health Department says the operating permit for Doug Saul’s...
Nov 13 2019 // Mc Donald’s Corp. was sued on Tuesday by workers in Michigan who accused the fast-food chain of allowing pervasive sexual harassment to flourish at its restaurants nationwide.The proposed class action lawsuit filed...
Oct 25 2019 // Pei Wei Asian Diner LLC, doing business as Pei Wei Fresh Kitchen in Little Rock Ark., has been charged with subjecting a class of female teens and young adults to sexual harassment and a sexually hostile work environment...
Oct 7 2019 // Two former employees of a Connecticut-based restaurant chain say in a lawsuit that they were subjected to a pattern of sexual harassment and abuse by a manager.Gianna Aconfora and Maizzy Douchette allege in the suit filed...
Oct 7 2019 // The restaurant industry, like many cash industries, is ripe for theft. One thing to take note of is just how contagious bad behaviors like stealing tend to be inside food establishments.New research by three researchers...
Oct 4 2019 // The U.S. Department of Labor has ordered a popular New Orleans restaurant to pay $238,000 in back wages to 222 employees who weren’t properly paid for overtime work. News outlets report an agency investigation...
Oct 4 2019 // More than 150 Louisiana restaurants have been cited for not disclosing to customers they were selling imported rather than domestic seafood.The citations from the Louisiana Department of Health stem from a new law...
Oct 1 2019 // Plenty of workplace research shows that people with helpful, mentoring colleagues tend to be helpful and perform better themselves. Few researchers have looked at whether bad behavior spreads among workplace colleagues.But...
Sep 30 2019 // A New Orleans restaurant has paid more than $55,000 after an investigation revealed it had violated multiple U.S. child labor laws by hiring a 13 year-old, who subsequently was severely injured at the workplace.The U.S....
Sep 11 2019 // A construction scheme to service high rent tenants created a virtual bomb, causing the 2015 gas explosion in Manhattan’s East Village that killed two people, injured 19 others and leveled three buildings, prosecutors...
Sep 4 2019 // The world’s biggest restaurant company, facing complaints from employees and advocacy groups over workplace policies, said it is expanding its training program for restaurant supervisors and crew.McDonald’s USA...
Aug 20 2019 // Three former table servers are suing owners and managers of an iconic Louisiana restaurant, claiming managers pressured them to work for no pay.The Advocate reported the lawsuit against The Chimes was filed last week in...
Jul 22 2019 // The death of a 3-year-old boy in a restaurant’s underground grease collection tank has prompted two state lawmakers to draft new safety legislation.Police say the child fell through an unsecured plastic cover over a...
Jul 16 2019 // Chubb has added small business insurance to cover risks faced by the food service industry to its digital platform – the Chubb Marketplace, which features a suite of products for businesses with up to $30 million in...
Jul 9 2019 // A federal judge will allow a waitress who claims she was fired because of her pregnancy to join a lawsuit against a Bismarck restaurant. The judge decided Erica Davidson is within her rights to intervene in the Equal...
Jul 7 2019 // A vacant pizza restaurant exploded Saturday in a thundering roar at a South Florida shopping plaza, injuring more than 20 people as large chunks of concrete flew through the air.The blast flung debris widely along a busy...
May 22 2019 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance announced multiple fraud enforcement actions during the month of April 2019.Insurance fraud costs American consumers approximately $80 billion dollars a year. According to North...
May 21 2019 // Massachusetts health officials say a seafood restaurant worker has tested positive for hepatitis A and are warning customers they may have been exposed to the disease. The state Department of Public Health and local health...
Apr 17 2019 // Distinguished Programs, a national insurance program manager headquartered in New York, has acquired Minneapolis, Minnesota-based ProHost USA, a specialty insurance program for restaurants and related risks.Distinguished...
Apr 8 2019 // Food safety inspectors in New York state failed to take action in response to hundreds of serious health code violations, according to a state audit published Friday.Officials from state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s...