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How Restaurant Owners and Managers Can Reduce Workers’ Comp Liability Around the COVID-19 Vaccine

Modern Restaurant Management

While our team is extremely excited about seeing each other in person, as a business owner, it‘s my responsibility to ensure we’re being safe, following appropriate CDC guidelines, and making the best decisions to protect our employees. Further, the Rockefeller Foundation found that 44 percent of 1,339 U.S.

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2021: A Year of Strategic Questions for Restaurants 

Modern Restaurant Management

Perhaps the biggest question on restaurateurs’ minds right now is: “Do I plan for the 2021 I was expecting, or can I just go back to 2019?” My colleagues and I at EPAM Continuum have been thinking of 2021 and the trends that will soon be served to us. What's that mean for restaurant safety? Curbside Appeal.

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Pandemic Pivots Don’t Offset Restaurants’ Need to Manage Looming Risks

Modern Restaurant Management

These virtual brands have allowed restaurants to hone in on hot niche trends (anything chicken related, typically) with consumers. For the 12 months ended March 31, 2021, their pace of digital orders was up by 207 percent, versus 98 percentthrough direct restaurant ordering. Cracker Barrel trialed a chicken and biscuit concept.

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Amy’s Kitchen vs. Its Workers

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“They said, ‘We are like family here,’ and when they said that, they made me feel like I was going to be part of a family work environment,” says Luna, a former Amy’s Kitchen employee. Luna started on the enchilada line at Amy’s San Jose plant in December 2021, and then became a machine operator in the pizza department after four months.

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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. Full-service restaurants are exempt from this law if employees sort organic waste. Litigation. Legislation.

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For a Newly Unionized Starbucks in Buffalo, the Future Looks Grand(e)

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Starbucks employees in Buffalo wait for the results of the union vote count on December 9, 2021. Sam Amato, a Starbucks barista for the past 12 years, is an employee at the Amherst, New York location that filed a petition for a union election back in August; he strongly believes that his fellow workers will vote to unionize. “My

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The Employee Benefits Outlook Post COVID-19

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The Employee Benefits Outlook Post COVID-19. How the pandemic has affected employee benefit trends and expectations in the hospitality industry. In fact, the Annual 2020 Yelp Economic Average report shows that 18,207 new restaurants and food businesses opened nationwide in Q4 2020, down only 4 percent from Q4 2019.