All the headlines from our Restaurant Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 7 2011 // Reality shows have taken over television. Every network has at least a few each week. They range from absurd spin-offs of Japanese game shows to personal challenges/competition to a day-in-the-life of somebody in New...
Mar 7 2011 // Many businesses have not updated their insurance to keep pace with today’s world of cyber liability. Restaurants are no exception. Today restaurants use the Internet. A restaurant will likely have its own Web site, a...
Mar 7 2011 // It is no secret that the restaurant industry has been in a slump. As families have cut back on eating out, restaurants have suffered three straight years of a decline in business: -.2 percent in 2010, -2.8 percent in 2009...
Mar 7 2011 // Restaurant industry sales are expected to reach a record $604 billion and post positive growth in 2011 after a three-year period of negative real sales growth. The 2011 forecast from the National Restaurant Association...
Feb 18 2011 // The latest electronic novelty popping up in local bars in Alabama might spare someone a night in jail or even save a life — or it might just become another drinking game.Breathalyzer machines have been installed at...
Feb 17 2011 // Agents across the country — except in Texas and neighboring states — agree that construction and related trades have been hardest hit by the recession. Restaurants appear to be the second hardest hit.In terms of lines...
Feb 7 2011 // Chartis has introduced Prime Express with XSEnhanced, a suite of coverage endorsements developed by its Growth Enterprises Division to provide industry-specific enhancements to Growth Enterprises’ Prime Express...
Feb 7 2011 // Agents across the country — except in Texas and neighboring states — agree that construction and related trades have been hardest hit by the recession. Restaurants appear to be the second hardest hit.In terms of lines...
Feb 4 2011 // Americans will consumer 30 million slices of pizza on Sunday, making Super Bowl Sunday one of the busiest day of the year for pizza chains. Papa Johns, the official pizza sponsor for Super Bowl XL, expects to have its...
Jan 6 2011 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced a $2,130,561 dividend to the Texas Restaurant Association (TRA) workers’ compensation purchasing group. The dividend was based largely on the group’s overall loss...
Dec 7 2010 // Aon Risk Solutions, Aon’s global risk management division, announced that it has developed an insurance policy that provides a greater level of protection than has previously been available from the insurance market...
Oct 21 2010 // A federal judge has barred New York City from hiring new firefighters after criticizing its handling of a discrimination lawsuit against the fire department.Judge Nicholas Garaufis (GEHR’-ah-fuhs) said Tuesday his...
Aug 12 2010 // National claims and risk management service provider Avizent has launched Restaurant Franchise Captive Program II, a risk-sharing captive for restaurant franchisees covering all lines of business – workers’...
Jul 30 2010 // A Baltimore jury has awarded $34.3 million to 23 employees of an Inner Harbor steakhouse who suffered brain damage as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning.The plaintiffs worked for the Ruth’s Chris Steak House at...
Jul 6 2010 // Oklahoma City-based Midlands Management Corp. announced it has been selected as the endorsed workers’ compensation program provider for members of the Oklahoma Restaurant Association (ORA).In choosing Midlands as its...
Jun 25 2010 // Affinity Benefits Partners, a Hotchkiss Insurance Programs LLC (HIP) company, has teamed up with Pan-American Benefits Solutions to offer an exclusive health benefits program for restaurants in Texas.PanaMed, underwritten...
Jun 17 2010 // The Gulf of Mexico oil spill will cost Mississippi’s coastal counties nearly $120 million in lost tourism and service industry revenues this summer season, even though the state’s beaches have not been hit by...
Jun 15 2010 // Here’s an unappetizing thought: A review of restaurant food safety practices found that a typical kitchen worker cross-contaminates food with potentially dangerous pathogens about once per hour.Among the risky...
May 21 2010 // Gov. Phil Bredesen this week vetoed a renewed effort to allow Tennessee handgun carry permit holders to bring their weapons into bars and restaurants that serve alcohol.The Democratic governor said in a letter to...
May 3 2010 // The beer industry, like many others, has been impacted by the economy with one notable exception: craft brewers. The microbrewery, brew pub and brewery industries have actually seen sales jump in the last few years while...