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Peter Romeo

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Workforce

The tip credit survives a legislative challenge in Illinois

Proponents of killing the credit acknowledged this week that legislation outlawing the employer concession is virtually dead for this year.

Workforce

Ohio servers and bartenders sound off on efforts to kill the tip credit

The Ohio Restaurant & Hospitality Alliance airs research showing tipped employees are as opposed as their employers are.

Workforce

Organized labor blasts fast-food chains for employing inmates

Working Lunch: Unions say they want the practice stopped. But their real aim is to alienate the Black community.

Leadership

The Restaurant Show has come a long, long way on diversity

Reality Check: You wouldn't believe what passed for acceptable in earlier iterations.

Workforce

Ohio restaurants try a jujitsu move to protect their tip credit

The industry and its allies are pushing legislation that would raise the state's minimum wage to $15 but keep the credit. The move is intended to thwart an effort to both raise the wage and kill the credit through a ballot initiative.

Leadership

First Watch CEO Chris Tomasso wins operator of the year honors from IFMA

The full-service veteran was named this year's winner of the Gold Plate award from the International Foodservice Manufacturers Association (IFMA).

Workforce

The White House has ideas about how all that AI on the Show floor should be used

Reality Check: President Biden issued a set of guidelines Thursday for protecting workers from the digital onslaught.

Financing

Cracker Barrel plans to invest $700M in a massive 'transformation'

With traffic down 16% year-to-date, the family dining chain is embarking on a rejuvenation effort to enhance its relevance to new and lapsed customers.

Leadership

The restaurant business has produced its share of criminals, including these

Restaurant Rewind: Here's why several prominent chain CEOs got a firsthand exposure to prison foodservice.

Workforce

Cheating on employee drug tests is at an all-time high

The likelihood of workers testing positive, particularly for marijuana use, was particularly high for workers involved in workplace accidents.

Emerging Brands

4 types of hot restaurant concepts muscling their way into the Top 500

Past rankings showed inroads being made by cookie concepts, drive-thru drink brands and a new wave of salad specialists. What sort of restaurants are this year's standout rookies?

Financing

10 largest family-dining chains ranked by systemwide sales

The segment and its sub-sectors like the buffets market haven't had an easy time post-pandemic, prompting many members of the old guard to arm themselves with shiny new upstarts as future growth vehicles. But there's still plenty of effort being spent on helping the longtime leaders keep their footing, as this look at the Top 10 shows.

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