All the headlines from our Restaurant Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 2 2017 // A Massachusetts man has been convicted of burning down a restaurant he owned in Rhode Island.Federal prosecutors say 51-year-old Daniel Saad was attempting to collect on a nearly $1 million insurance policy when he set...
Dec 14 2016 // More than two dozen people were treated by paramedics after showing symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning at the River Ridge Tap House restaurant in Clemmons, N.C.Forsyth County EMS tells local media that about 30 people...
Dec 12 2016 // An Oregon man has filed a $3.9 million wrongful death lawsuit against a Eugene tavern and one of its customers.Julio Ortiz Ahumada of Springfield says the Keg Tavern served alcohol to a “visibly intoxicated”...
Dec 1 2016 // Health officials have closed a suburban Rochester restaurant after dozens of people reported getting sick after eating there on Thanksgiving.The Monroe County Health Department says it closed the Golden Ponds Restaurant...
Nov 22 2016 // It’s a different concept, a way to build at ground level in a flood zone. And it’s working for a business in Jackson County, Miss.DaBayou Bar & Grill may look thrown together, but there is a lot of planning...
Nov 21 2016 // Opponents of a state ruling that would prevent bars and many restaurants in Denver from offering on-site marijuana consumption said the ruling would overturn a law approved by voters and force people to sneak around while...
Nov 16 2016 // A McDonald’s restaurant owned and operated by Mathews Management Co. and Peach Orchard Inc. in Bentonville, Ark., will pay $103,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by...
Oct 19 2016 // McDonald’s will pay a $56,500 settlement after a southeast Missouri restaurant manager refused to interview a deaf job applicant.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced the settlement with...
Oct 17 2016 // Standing on the banks of the Neuse River this week, watching water creep ever-closer to the bottom of the King Street Bridge, crowds of people continually compared what was happening to what Hurricane Floyd wrought here 17...
Oct 7 2016 // Bully’s Sports Bar & Grill has agreed to pay $375,000 in back wages to settle part of a class-action lawsuit with 15 cooks who accused the oldest sports bar chain in northern Nevada of denying them overtime pay...
Oct 3 2016 // Kevin O’Connor, president of McGowan Hospitality, is no stranger to insuring the risks associated with restaurants, bars, taverns and nightclubs. He has spent the past 33 years in the sector as a reinsurance broker,...
Sep 22 2016 // The owner/operator and management company for a Columbus Texas Roadhouse restaurant will pay $1.4 million and furnish significant equitable relief to settle a class sexual harassment suit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment...
Sep 19 2016 // Maintaining a culture of safety is a company-wide initiative for California- based El Pollo Loco, according to Shaun Jackson, director of risk management for the restaurant chain. While employee morale and predatory...
Sep 2 2016 // A worker is dead after police say he was caught in the machinery of a small freight elevator at a New Jersey restaurant.Lakehurst Police Chief Eric Higgins tells the Asbury Park Press 34-year-old Oscar Francisco...
Aug 30 2016 // Restaurant Programs of America LLC has named Peter M. Enos vice president of sales in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Enos has for 25 years provided risk management solutions to clients in a variety of specialties...
Aug 19 2016 // Hawaii authorities are urging diners to be aware of the risks of eating raw and undercooked food after they traced a hepatitis A outbreak to frozen scallops served raw at a sushi restaurant chain.State Department of Health...
Aug 19 2016 // A Leominster, Mass., man who set fire to his own restaurant to collect the insurance money has been sentenced to four years in prison.Jeffrey Cordio, who owned the West End Diner, was also sentenced in federal court to...
Aug 8 2016 // Several restaurants in Northern California were damaged after suspected prank callers tricked workers into testing their fire suppression system. Elk Grove officials said three such incidents were reported in July to the...
Jul 28 2016 // Several restaurants in Northern California are damaged after suspected prank callers tricked workers into testing their fire suppression system.The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Elk Grove officials say three such...
Jul 28 2016 // A federal lawsuit over a South Carolina restaurant’s policy of charging workers to cover the cost of broken glasses and dishes is headed to trial.The Post and Courier of Charleston reports jury selection is set next...