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A deep dive into Massachusetts’ restaurant labor laws

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Between their relatively high minimum wage and tip credit, wide-ranging state law on tips, and detailed guidelines on employing minors, it can be hard for restaurants to navigate. Basic employee rights in Massachusetts All employees in Massachusetts, including tipped and non-tipped restaurant workers, have a set of basic rights.

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A deep dive into Massachusetts’ restaurant labor laws

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Between their relatively high minimum wage and tip credit, wide-ranging state law on tips, and detailed guidelines on employing minors, it can be hard for restaurants to navigate. Basic employee rights in Massachusetts All employees in Massachusetts, including tipped and non-tipped restaurant workers, have a set of basic rights.

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A deep dive into Massachusetts’ restaurant labor laws

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Between their relatively high minimum wage and tip credit, wide-ranging state law on tips, and detailed guidelines on employing minors, it can be hard for restaurants to navigate. Basic employee rights in Massachusetts All employees in Massachusetts, including tipped and non-tipped restaurant workers, have a set of basic rights.

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8 Reasons Why Restaurant Workers Quit (And How to Retain Them)

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73% of those employees still receive tips. According to Jim Taylor, a restaurant coach at BenchmarkSixty , restaurants can afford to pay employees more by looking for efficiencies in their productivity. Implement a tip pool. Tip pooling is another way that restaurants are changing up compensation more fair across the board.

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How to Reduce your Restaurant Tech Stack

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Pay Historically, paying tips and running payroll has been a manual process that frankly, takes forever to complete (we’ve found time savings of up to 34 hours per month with just Tip Pooling alone). We're doubling down on making our tips and payroll products even more robust.

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Seven Ways HR Leadership Can Reduce Risk for Restaurants During Turbulent Times

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The following seven tips can help restaurant managers and HR professionals navigate risk in this rapidly evolving pandemic, especially as restaurants in many jurisdictions are required to operate solely with take-out or delivery service options. As one industry executive comments, it's unchartered territory for the industry.

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The 5 Things Food Vendors Don't Want You to Know

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Another thing you have to understand that the foodservice distribution world keeps secret is that a “slot” in the warehouse is gold to them. In foodservice distribution, they call them deviations. Some of the laws are changing and it’s changing the way these checks are distributed. Try it a see for yourself.