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Our Wage Models are Broken

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It’s no secret that with a workforce mass exodus and rising minimum wages, the restaurant industry is long overdue for an overhaul of its business structure and compensation model. Our coalition of restaurant owners across the country come together to share best practices about wages and benefits. Rethinking Wages: Where to Start?

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September/October 2020 and Elections Legal Update

Modern Restaurant Management

Nair, a partner at Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP compiles recent legal news affecting the restaurant, food and beverage and hospitality industries for Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine. Under California law, app-based gig workers would have been considered employees. Election Results. Legislation.

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CIVILITY LOST

Culinary Cues

How many restaurants suffer from employees not showing up to work, failing to step in the kitchen ready to work, failing to respect the standards of excellence that a restaurant is basing its reputation on, or failing to do a job to the best of their ability? PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. Is this still the case? Be the example.

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How to Put Employees First, From 4 Restaurateurs

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We invited 4 restaurant operators to discuss how they put their team first. It's bad morale if you bring someone in who isn't very good, doesn't know what they're doing,” says Kelly Phillips, Founder of Destination Unknown Restaurants. Fork is one of five restaurants under HSHG. I think that's really a crucial part of it.”

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#MeToo, Still

EATER

Allison Vu /Eater Five years after I went public with my #MeToo experiences in the restaurant industry, has anything really changed? In 2017, when #MeToo — a movement originally founded by activist Tarana Burke in 2006 — went viral, several exposes revealed examples within the entertainment, business, and restaurant industries.

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Ultimate Restaurant Payroll Guide 2023

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Did you know that payroll/labor makes up almost one-third of a restaurant's operating costs ? Understanding the ins and outs of paying employees, observing labor laws, and complying with the tax code is critical to running a business. Restaurant payroll is a system for calculating and managing the salaries of employees in a restaurant.

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Responding to the Growing Age-Gap in the Workplace

Modern Restaurant Management

But, declining rates of retirement savings and employees’ need for continuing healthcare are also major drivers in employees working into their later years. In the restaurant industry, Older adults have been the fastest-growing cohort of employees , according to the National Restaurant Association.