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July/August 2020 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 the ruling, California restaurants may still not serve foie gras to California consumers. Litigation.

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How DoorDash and Postmates Make an Already Dangerous Job Worse

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Those disparities only worsened during the pandemic, as restaurants closed and the prospect of earning a living from tips became even more precarious. 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.

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Delivering Dinner in the Dark

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Across the country, delivery app couriers for Caviar, DoorDash, and UberEats face confusion (and the risk of arrest) during citywide curfews James* works as a courier for four different app-based delivery services, but in 2012, he drove a yellow cab in New York City during Hurricane Sandy. Luckily I picked up a fare right away.”.

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xtraCHEF’s List of Support Resources for the Restaurant Industry

Xtra Chef

At xtraCHEF, empowering restaurant owners and operators is at the core of what we do. The National Restaurant Association is also compiling an ongoing list of resources tailored to restaurant owners and operators , focusing on sanitation and the food supply chain. . This article was last updated on March 1 8 , 2020. .

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

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Together with the hospitality-industry union Unite Here, the veteran employee and his colleagues helped garner majority support of about 800 workers at the airport’s other HMSHost-operated restaurants, such as Chili’s and Starbucks, with an election slated for late March to determine whether the union would officially represent the staff.