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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. Legislation.

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MRM at Five: What Issues Have Impacted Restaurants?

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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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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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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. billion in 2018. It is incontestable that more Americans are looking to integrate plant-based proteins into their diets.

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Debt-Free Fine Dining

Modern Restaurant Management

Blake Aguillard and Trey Smith started with $30,000 and no outside investors when they opened Saint-Germain in New Orleans' Bywater neighborhood in 2018. The duo transfomed a dilapidated cottage themselves entirely by hand into an intimate 12-seat restaurant that has received numerous accolades. It did in multiple ways.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-February 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

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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