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Workforce

Restaurants are already bracing for a wave of wage-related ballot measures in November

 By Peter Romeo on Apr. 15, 2024

Working Lunch: The trend promises to cost employers plenty of money and sweat if they hope to prevail.

Technology

Back-office tech supplier Restaurant365 acquires ExpandShare training system

 By Joe Guszkowski on Apr. 09, 2024

ExpandShare is designed to simplify and digitize restaurant employee training with readymade modules and a mobile app.

Workforce

Florida eyes controversial pro-employer legislation

By Peter Romeo on Apr. 09, 2024

In another example of state-level efforts to limit workplace obligations, the state is looking to prohibit local jurisdictions from requiring heat protections and predictive scheduling.

Workforce

First Watch may have hit on a major way of reducing last-minute shift cancellations

By Peter Romeo on Apr. 05, 2024

The daytime dining chain has added backup child and elderly care as an employee benefit. Workers pay as little as $10 a day for the service.

Workforce

Restaurants and bars add 28,300 jobs in March

By Peter Romeo on Apr. 05, 2024

The addition matches the job creation figure for February, but marks a turnaround from the decreased employment registered in January, according to government data.

Leadership

WFF at 35: Progress made, more to accomplish

By Heather Lalley on Mar. 27, 2024

Attendees of this year’s Women’s Foodservice Forum Leadership Conference heralded the advances (and made the business case) for moving women into leadership roles. But there’s still work to do.

Workforce

There's another big restaurant chain in organized labor's sights

By Peter Romeo on Mar. 25, 2024

Reality Check: The union behind California's $20 fast-food wage is now pushing Waffle House for a $25 pay floor and a change in its employee meal policies. But all restaurant employers should be concerned.

Workforce

Taco Bell franchisee Charter Foods sued for sexual harassment

By Heather Lalley on Mar. 06, 2024

Two women allege the company knowingly hired a registered sex offender, who harassed them when they were 17-year-old high school students.

Workforce

U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear an appeal from Starbucks

By Peter Romeo on Jan. 12, 2024

The coffee chain wants the nation's highest court to decide if employees were truly dismissed because of their union activities.

Emerging Brands

How Steve Ells' new Kernel aims to change the labor equation

By Lisa Jennings on Jan. 11, 2024

Expected to open in February, Kernel will attempt to reinvent the team member experience. Brand president Stephen Goldstein describes how the concept is designed to benefit both the planet and workers.

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