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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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Trash or Treasure? Used Cooking Oil’s Golden Allure Isn’t Just About its Color

Modern Restaurant Management

” Who could imagine the same could be said of smelly, dirty, used-up restaurant grease? billion pounds of used cooking oil is generated annually from restaurants and other foodservice businesses. A garage sale’s success depends on the saying, “one person’s trash is another’s treasure.”

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-February 2020 Edition

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This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the National Restaurant Association's State of the Indusrty Report, food industry pressures, foodservice opportunities, influencer marketing, foot traffic analysis and the dining-out dollar. 2020 State of the Restaurant Industry.

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Changes at McDonald’s and Reducing Food Waste

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of MRM News Bites features McDonalds, the Food Waste Reduction Alliance, OpenTable, Ordermark, Hudson Group, Hakkasan Group , Waitr and Checkers, ICV Partners, Restaurant Technologies, Diebold Nixdorf and Alto-Shaam. " Reducing Food Waste. " Reducing Food Waste. Changes at the Top for McDonald's.

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MRM Plant-Based: Good Food Scorecard and Healthier Hospital Food

Modern Restaurant Management

Please send plant-based news to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. Good Food Restaurant Scorecard. The third annual Good Food Restaurant Scorecard ranks the top 100 restaurant chains in the U.S. This data covers U.S. to its menu.

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NLRB Joint Employer Final Rule and America’s Classics

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The final rule restores the joint-employer standard that the Board applied for several decades prior to the 2015 decision in Browning-Ferris, but with the greater precision, clarity, and detail that rulemaking allows. As a result, the final rule provides clear guidance in this significant area of the law. William Zehnder, Sr.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-February 2021 Edition

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January was encouraging for the restaurant industry. percent, it was the best performance for restaurants since the beginning of the pandemic almost a year ago, according to The Restaurant Guest Satisfaction Snapshot produced by data from Guest Intelligence™, a Black Box Intelligence Product. An Encouraging January.

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