All the headlines from our Restaurant Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 20 2019 // A data breach may have compromised the personal information of customers who patronized any of 50 Arizona businesses last month.North Country Business Products says an investigation of “suspicious activity” led...
Jan 28 2019 // Robots aren’t replacing everyone, but a quarter of U.S. jobs will be severely disrupted as artificial intelligence accelerates the automation of existing work, according to a new Brookings Institution report.The...
Jan 16 2019 // A North Carolina restaurant has been fined by federal officials who say it violated minimum wage and child labor laws. The U.S. Department of Labor announced in a news release that Max’s Pizza in Surf City was fined...
Jan 15 2019 // Providence, R.I., officials have temporarily shut down a restaurant where a patron opened fire.The city Board of Licenses says they held an emergency meeting Sunday and approved a request from city police to shut down La...
Jan 4 2019 // There is a trend in residential construction to build condominium communities that go beyond the traditional amenities we’re used to. We are accustomed to work out rooms, pools, game rooms and the like in...
Dec 28 2018 // Restaurant workers miss about a month from work from a variety of injuries, on average, but for coffee shop workers, wrist injuries are the biggest danger. In fact, Barista Wrist, can keep café workers sidelined for more...
Dec 26 2018 // I hope that you’re having a wonderful holiday season. I’m still out for Christmas, but I wanted to make sure that I added a little humor to your week with a Christmas installment of Holiday Policy Language so...
Dec 13 2018 // A popular upscale restaurant in North Dakota’s capital city is being sued for allegedly firing a server after she became pregnant.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed the federal lawsuit against...
Dec 10 2018 // With a growing number of apps and on-demand services, millennials in particular are increasingly ordering take-out food from their favorite restaurants.As more restaurants expand services into delivery, risk managers must...
Dec 4 2018 // A new computer model is proving significantly more accurate in identifying potentially unsafe restaurants when compared with existing methods of consumer complaints and routine inspections.The model uses machine learning...
Dec 3 2018 // The federal Department of Labor is suing the owners of two Kentucky brunch restaurants it says failed to pay workers more than $130,000 in overtime. The Courier Journal reported Wednesday that the department says the...
Oct 25 2018 // A Chinese restaurant in New Hampshire accused of over-serving alcohol to three men who later died in a 2016 crash is now on trial.Prosecutors argue 21-year-old Malachi Davis, 21-year-old Hunter Vars and 20-year-old Jack...
Oct 24 2018 // Three years ago, Allen Startz found himself in an unwanted kinship with thousands of other oilfield workers in South Texas’ Eagle Ford shale — laid off with few prospects nearby.The Houston Chronicle reports he...
Oct 19 2018 // A Louisiana company is recalling 15 tons of packaged ready-to-eat chicken and pork products produced since January 2017 for five restaurants or chains in Louisiana and Texas.A La Carte Foods of Belle Rose made the six...
Oct 16 2018 // Chicago-based Rosebud Restaurants Inc. will pay $160,000 to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).The EEOC’s lawsuit charged Rosebud,...
Oct 15 2018 // There is a trend in residential construction to build condominium communities that go beyond the traditional amenities we’re used to. We are accustomed to work out rooms, pools, game rooms and the like in...
Oct 1 2018 // Restaurants must pay waiters and bartenders minimum wage when they are engaged in tasks such as cleaning toilets that are unrelated to their main jobs and do not offer tips, a divided U.S. appeals court ruled last month.At...
Sep 21 2018 // Restaurants must pay waiters and bartenders minimum wage when they are engaged in tasks such as cleaning toilets that are unrelated to their main jobs and do not offer tips, a divided U.S. appeals court ruled this week.At...
Sep 17 2018 // Small business owners across the U.S. who are cleaning up from this year’s various catastrophes will find there’s no one formula for recovery.The same disaster can hurt businesses in divergent ways — a...
Sep 13 2018 // Section 5(a) of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act provides the damages an employer must pay for work-related injuries. It specifies a worker injured in the line of duty cannot sue her employer or its other...