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Working Lunch

Working Lunch is a podcast from Align Public Strategies devoted to explaining the so what and now what about key issues impacting the restaurant and retail industries.

Operations

Why the FTC is coming after restaurant service charges

 By Restaurant Business Staff on Oct. 16, 2023

Working Lunch: The podcast from public affairs firm Align Public Strategies features a discussion on Biden’s “junk fees” proposal and more on the tip credit.

Operations

A small NYC board game concept tests new labor organizing rules

 By Restaurant Business Staff on Oct. 09, 2023

Working Lunch: This week's podcast from Align Public Strategies features a discussion on a unionization effort at Hex and Co., a three-unit cafe-game concept out of New York. Also, how the GOP meltdown could affect small business.

Workforce

What can Congress do to ease restaurants' labor struggles?

By Peter Romeo on Oct. 02, 2023

Working Lunch: A group called the Critical Labor Coalition has some ideas its pushing on the Hill. Here are a few of the would-be aids.

Leadership

How Chicago restaurants got burned by their own advocate

By Peter Romeo on Sep. 22, 2023

Working Lunch: The Illinois Restaurant Association threw in the towel without so much as making a fist.

Workforce

Restaurants might have dodged a bullet with DOL's overtime-pay proposal. Here's why.

By Peter Romeo on Sep. 08, 2023

Working Lunch: Restaurants will feel the impact, but the new rules could have been far worse.

Workforce

Here's what last week's change in union regulations could mean for all restaurants

By Peter Romeo on Aug. 28, 2023

Working Lunch: "This fundamentally changes labor relations in the U.S," says host Franklin Coley.

Food

New pork rules could affect more than the cost of chops and ribs

By Peter Romeo on Aug. 21, 2023

Working Lunch: The strategy that changed what items can be sold in California, Massachusetts and New Jersey could be refocused on other protein sources, driving up the cost of beef and poultry.

Workforce

How Ohio's controversial abortion vote could be a blow for restaurants

By Peter Romeo on Aug. 14, 2023

Working Lunch: Proponents of killing the tip credit through referendum were spared a tougher fight.

Workforce

Artificial intelligence could mean more litigation for restaurant employers

By Peter Romeo on Jul. 31, 2023

Working Lunch: Relying on a computer brain to sift through resumes for the ideal candidate could raise challenges about the criteria that are set by the employer.

Workforce

What restaurants can expect under California's resurrected plan for setting restaurant wages

By Peter Romeo on Jul. 21, 2023

Working Lunch: The Industrial Welfare Commission has until October 2024 to issue its recommendations for changing pay within specific trades. Here's how that process will work.

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