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Who’s Paying for the Great Delivery Wars?

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It’s probably not Uber Eats, Postmates, or Grubhub 2020 was an undeniably big year for food delivery. Benefitting the most from this disruption to an already broken food supply chain are third-party delivery apps, such as UberEats, Grubhub, and DoorDash. When did delivery apps get so powerful? Delivery apps hurt restaurants.

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How DoorDash and Postmates Make an Already Dangerous Job Worse

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With each chapter, she highlights the ways the tipped minimum wage exploits workers from a particular job category, including restaurant servers, delivery drivers, nail technicians, and more. By the time she returned in 2012, she felt that as “an independent artist, I didn’t have funds to pursue my music career.” Monica Burton.

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July/August 2020 Legal Update

Modern Restaurant Management

California’s foie gras ban went into effect in 2012, and provides that “A product may not be sold in California if it is the result of force feeding a bird for the purpose of enlarging the bird's liver beyond normal size.” Under the ruling, California restaurants may still not serve foie gras to California consumers.

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How to Cook a Direwolf

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She is 43, with good hair and full-sleeve tattoos, which makes her a compelling protagonist; when Elizabeth opened in 2012, former Chicago Tribune critic Phil Vettel called her Alice, because “the fields and farms where she forages for ingredients comprise her Wonderland.” We’ve purposefully eliminated all of those elements.

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They Tried to Start a Union During a Pandemic, But They Were Fired. What’s Next?

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More than three months later, Colon, like many of his now-furloughed colleagues, is without a paycheck, without health insurance, and without any job security. “By By them delaying the union and getting ourselves into a contract or negotiating, right now, we don’t have a guarantee to go back to work,” Colon says.

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Q1 2022 Legal Update

Modern Restaurant Management

Insurance Coverage for COVID Claims Largely Rejected by Appellate Courts : Throughout the country, appellate courts are reviewing insurance coverage lawsuits brought by restaurants who were forced to close due to COVID-19 pandemic shutdown orders. Oregon Mutual Insurance Co., Litigation.

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Menu Prices Will Go Up With a Higher Minimum Wage. But You’ve Been Underpaying for Years.

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Fairness has the potential to be a fundamental part of a restaurant’s business plan In 2012, the organization Fight for 15 , composed of fast-food workers who walked off the job to demand a living wage and workers’ rights, formed in New York City. A Fight for 15 protest in New York City | a katz /Shutterstock.