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Q1 2022 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. Recent opinions in favor of insurance companies include a March 16, 2022 unpublished Ninth Circuit pane opinion in Steven Baker v.

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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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Who’s Paying for the Great Delivery Wars?

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As the pandemic limited access to restaurants and the government dragged — and continues to drag — on providing financial support for small businesses, consumers were given few options outside of takeout and delivery to eat a meal that they didn’t cook themselves. Delivery apps hurt restaurants.

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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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Ahead of Fire Prevention Week – Is Your Restaurant Safe?

Modern Restaurant Management

Society Insurance has been working alongside restaurant owners for more than a century, seeing first-hand the devastating effects a fire can have on the establishments that make communities great. Cooking equipment is probably the most important thing inside a restaurant – and it’s also a leading cause of fires.

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Ahead of Fire Prevention Week – Is Your Bar/Restaurant Safe?

Modern Restaurant Management

.” Society Insurance has been working alongside business owners for more than a century, seeing first-hand the devastating effects a fire can have on the establishments that make communities great. ” is one word no one wants to hear in a bar or restaurant and it is the call in the night owners and managers never want to receive.

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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. But in light of this, some restaurant owners are stoking fear among customers.

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