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[Updated for 2023] The State-by-State Guide To Tip Pooling Laws

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It's a constant conversation in the restaurant industry. But one can't deny that tips make up a majority of restaurant workers' take-home pay. There have been several ways in which restaurant owners have tried to create a more equitable system for employees to earn consistent, fair wages and improve retention. Tip Pooling Laws.

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November/December 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. For the most part, courts have upheld dining restrictions due to public safety concerns. Litigation. In its ruling in McGee v.

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Pastry Chefs Aren’t Disappearing — We’re Evolving

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Joules Garcia /Eater Pastry chefs may be leaving restaurants, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing for the profession For the last several years, I’ve noticed a terrifying trend: Major magazines and food publications say that pastry chefs are going extinct. As a pastry chef myself, this is bad news, to say the least.

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How Mattenga’s Pizzeria Simplifies Labor Management—and Gets Back to Family Life

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It's been six years that we've been in this business, and in 2018 we opened our second location in San Antonio.” 2 hours per week When Mattenga’s bought the restaurant in 2014, they had been using spreadsheets to keep track of their weekly schedules. Making fresh pasta, making pizza for people from scratch.

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COVID-19 Is the Opportunity Plant-Based Alternatives Have Waited For

Modern Restaurant Management

Typically made of legumes, vegetable and assorted grains, these “meat substitutes” are now popular in grocery stores, as well as fast-food restaurants and even fine dining establishments. Also, significant: supplies of meat at the retail level are dwindling. agriculture supply chain are felt.

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MRM at Five: What Issues Have Impacted Restaurants?

Modern Restaurant Management

As Modern Restaurant Management Restaurant (MRM) magazine celebrates its fifth anniversary this month, we reached out to industry insiders to garner their insights on what issues have impacted the industry over the last five years and what issues they feel will impact restaurants in the years to come.

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Will Tipping at Restaurants Make Sense in a COVID-19 World?

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Tipping at restaurants has always been a contreversial issue. Since the US government and state authorities started shutting down restaurants, millions of workers were laid off. Tipping Laws. Tipping laws vary across different states. But rarely, the arbitrariness of tipping may surprise restaurant workers.