Latest Restaurant Headlines

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New Hampshire Restaurant Fined After Fatal Crash by Intoxicated Customer

Dec 27 2021 // The New Hampshire Liquor Commission has fined a restaurant in Windham, New Hampshire, $2,500 and suspended its liquor license for 10 days in connection with a fatal vehicle crash in April.Four employees at the Old School...

Special Report: The Charity Issue

Dec 20 2021 // Higginbotham In partnership with the North Texas Community Foundation, Higginbotham created the Higginbotham Community Fund in 2011 to provide monetary support to nonprofits operating in markets where it has offices. Since...

Restaurant Owner, Niece Face Prison for Arson, Insurance Fraud

Dec 16 2021 // A New York restaurant owner and his nephew’s wife are facing up to 25 years to life in prison after being charged with first degree arson.Zef Gjurashaj, of Newburgh, and his nephew’s wife, Marina Gjurashaj, of...

London Turns Into Ghost Town as UK Faces Record-Breaking Wave of COVID Infections

Dec 16 2021 // The owner of Parlez, a pub and restaurant in south London, hoped that sales this Christmas would have bounced back fully from last winter’s COVID-19 lockdown. Instead, every one of this week’s group...

Workers’ Compensation Bureau of California Profiles Restaurant Industry

Dec 1 2021 // Restaurants make up a sizable portion of California’s workers’ comp system, a new report shows.The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California released the first report in its industry...

Fire Causes Estimated $50K in Damage at Delaware Restaurant

Nov 29 2021 // Fire officials in Delaware are investigating a fire that damaged a restaurant in Newark.The Delaware State Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating after the fire at Miller’s Ale House at Center Pointe Plaza,...

Hylant, Obsidian Launch Program for Restaurant Delivery Drivers

Nov 1 2021 // Hylant, a Toledo, Ohio-based insurance brokerage, has launched RoadPilot, a “pay as you go” hired non-owned program designed for the restaurant home food delivery industry.RoadPilot is an app-based technology...

Striking McDonald’s Workers Protest Alleged Workplace Harassment, Violence

Oct 29 2021 // McDonald’s workers in 12 U.S. cities walked off the job Tuesday to protest what they say is an ongoing problem of sexual harassment and violence in the company’s stores.Several hundred workers were expected to...

Arizona Restaurateur Whose Business Was Raided by Sheriff Gets $5M

Oct 22 2021 // Maricopa County, Ariz., officials approved a settlement this week with a restaurant owner in metro Phoenix who claimed in a lawsuit that then-Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office had defamed him and violated his rights about...

Los Angeles Implementing One of Strictest Vaccination Mandates in Nation

Oct 7 2021 // Los Angeles leaders on Wednesday approved one of the nation’s strictest vaccine mandates _ a sweeping measure that would require the shots for everyone entering bars, restaurants, nail salons, gyms or even a Lakers...

Judge Clears Kansas City COVID Business Interruption Claim for Trial

Sep 24 2021 // A federal judge in Kansas City has cleared a restaurant group’s COVID-related business interruption claim for jury trial, finding that an 8th Circuit Court decision that found no coverage was owed in a separate case...

Workers in London’s Financial Services Industry Are Returning to Their Desks in Droves

Sep 20 2021 // On the lower floors of HSBC Holdings Plc’s Canary Wharf headquarters, the desks are filling up.Traders, salespeople and close support staff not currently in the office have been told they are expected to be at their...

Louisiana Restaurant Sued for Pregnancy Discrimination

Sep 16 2021 // Federal authorities have sued a Louisiana restaurant for allegedly violating federal law against pregnancy discrimination in hiring.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit that...

In COVID Automation Boom, Robots and Apps Find Work at Services Firms

Sep 7 2021 // Ask for a roast beef sandwich at an Arby’s drive-thru east of Los Angeles and you may be talking to Tori — an artificially intelligent voice assistant that will take your order and send it to the line...

McDonald’s Franchise Settles Workers’ COVID-19 Lawsuit

Aug 13 2021 // A McDonald’s Corp. franchise in Oakland, California, has agreed to take steps to protect workers from COVID-19 to settle a 2020 lawsuit claiming managers gave employees dog diapers and coffee filters to use as face...

Minnesota Restaurant Workers Shortchanged During COVID Awarded $230K

Aug 9 2021 // Employees of a Minneapolis, Minnesota, restaurant group will receive money they were denied after the company laid off workers during the COVID-19 shutdowns without giving them their final paychecks.A settlement completed...

Massachusetts Sues Grubhub Over Fees Charged During Pandemic

Aug 3 2021 // Online food delivery platform Grubhub charged some Massachusetts restaurants illegally high fees during the coronavirus pandemic, the state attorney general’s office alleged in a lawsuit filed Thursday.The suit,...

Embedded As a Risk, New COVID Cycle Could Challenge Economic Recovery

Jul 22 2021 // Five weeks after dropping its reference to the coronavirus as a weight on the economy, the U.S. Federal Reserve is confronting a challenging new rise in cases that has fueled doubts about the global recovery and is already...

Nebraska Restaurant, Owner Ordered to Pay Overtime, Comply with Wage Laws

Jun 24 2021 // A Kearney, Neb., pizza and burger restaurant and its owner have been ordered to pay $17,216 – $8,608 in back wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages — to 13 workers after the U.S. Department of Labor found...

Labor Crisis Shocking California Restaurants

Jun 23 2021 // Sherry Villanueva’s family of Santa Barbara restaurants employed 350 people before the pandemic took hold and darkened dining rooms across California. Now, with the state’s economy officially reopened, about...