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Stopping Post-COVID Chargeback Abuse in the F&B Space

Modern Restaurant Management

Back in December 2019 , I wrote a piece commenting on the rapid increase in chargebacks in the food and beverage industry. The pandemic forced shutdowns at tens of thousands of restaurants across the country. Chargeback Abuse Creating Problems for Restaurants. Food poisoning or items with undisclosed allergens.

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Give Some, Take Some: How the Community Fridge Fights Food Insecurity

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When restaurants, bars, and nonessential businesses closed as a mandate of the state-imposed shutdown on April 29, millions of people found themselves out of jobs, unable to pay rent, and lacking the food they needed to survive. We didn’t ask for permission before we looked into the food laws or liability laws,” he told me.

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March/April 2021 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. The law will become effective on March 29, 2021, and applies retroactively to sick leave taken beginning on or after January 1, 2021.

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The Burden of Eating in ‘America’

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A study by the Environmental Research: Health journal found that between 2014 and 2019, wildfire smoke in “South America” was responsible for 12,000 premature deaths each year, with a disproportionate impact occurring in Indigenous lands. I wish we had a similar law in the “U.S.” But I also ate so much delicious food in the “U.K.”

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#LifeOrDeathRecipe Challenge and ‘A Woman’s Place’

Modern Restaurant Management

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature a new documentary on women in the culinary world, the loss of an industry legend, a contest to create healthy recipes and products and services to help restaurant in the pandemic. 'A 'A Woman's Place' on Hulu. It comes straight from our subjects.”

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-October-2019 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features dismal restaurant sales traffic, best foodie cities , top breakfast foods in America, food fraud and why Brits love chicken shops. percent for the third quarter of 2019, it doesn’t show much of a decline from the average 0.8

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