Latest Restaurant Headlines
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Popular California Restauranteur Fined $71K for Failing to Pay Overtime
Jul 18 2024 // A popular Sonoma County chef denied three workers at its Healdsburg, California establishment of more than $35,000 in overtime wages, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Investigators in the department’s Wage...
Restaurant Workers’ Battle for Higher Minimum Wage Goes National
May 29 2024 // US restaurants grappling with high costs and penny-pinching consumers are making a tough pitch to voters: that boosting pay to millions of workers is a bad idea. At least four states are set to vote on measures to make...
Massachusetts Appeals Court Upholds Restaurants’ COVID-19 Insurance Denial
May 21 2024 // In a ruling against an upscale restaurant chain, a Massachusetts Appeals Court has followed the recipe the state’s high court set forth in 2022 in ruling that the COVID-19 virus does not trigger business interruption...
The Surprising Force Stalling Climate Progress: California Restaurants
May 15 2024 // In the fight to ratchet down climate emissions and soothe the most dangerous effects of an overheating planet, one of the most withering setbacks in recent memory wasn’t delivered by the oil industry or coal...
New Mexico Restaurant Settles Wage-Theft Complaint After Prolonged Legal Battle
May 2 2024 // New Mexico labor announced a legal settlement that resolves longstanding accusations of unpaid wages against a restaurant business in northwestern New Mexico. The Workforce Solutions Department said in a news release that...
California Labor Commissioner Reaches $2M Settlement with Restaurant
Apr 8 2024 // The California Labor Commissioner’s Office reached a $2 million settlement against Pearl B-Star Inc., DBA Lin’s Fusion for underpaying 32 workers. Pearl B-Star violated state labor laws governing recordkeeping,...
Squeezed from All Sides: Restaurants Pressured by Labor, Food, Insurance Costs
Mar 18 2024 // The food services industry is anticipating record sales for 2024. But insurance specialists serving the restaurant and bar sector say that forecast isn’t all good news. With higher sales come higher costs all...
Woman Gets 5-10 Years for Workers’ Comp Scam of Family Dollar, Restaurant
Mar 1 2024 // A Delaware woman will serve 5 to 10 years in state prison for a workers’ compensation scam that spanned 2.5 years, two states, and cost a Pennsylvania employer more than $170,000, according to Pennsylvania Attorney...
Grubhub to Pay $3.5M to Massachusetts Restaurants for Overcharging During COVID
Jan 17 2024 // Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell announced a $3.5 million settlement Friday with the online food delivery service platform Grubhub. The settlement resolves a 2021 lawsuit brought by Campbell alleging Grubhub...
Woman Sues Restaurant Claiming She Found Piece of Human Finger in Chopped Salad
Nov 29 2023 // When Alison Cozzi was eating the salad, she sensed something wasn’t right. It did not take long for her to realize that she was chewing on a portion of a human finger that had been mixed into the salad. It so...
Fraternity and Bar Sued Over 2021 Death of University of New Hampshire Student
Nov 14 2023 // The mother of a University of New Hampshire student who died in an icy swamp two years ago filed a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday against the Durham bar and fraternity her son visited that night. Vincenzo Lirosi, 22, was...
Pennsylvania Restaurant to Pay $269K for Illegal Pay Practices, Child Labor Violations
Oct 25 2023 // A Collegeville, Pennsylvania restaurant and its owners must pay $268,660 in back wages, liquidated damages and punitive damages to satisfy a consent judgment obtained by the U.S. Department of Labor after an investigation...
California Restaurant Mutual Benefit Group Raises $100M
Oct 18 2023 // California Restaurant Mutual Benefit Corp. raised $100 million in capital over the past decade from its members and through fiscal controls. CRMBC is a California self-insured group that provides workers’...
Subway Restaurant Franchise in Manhattan Pays for Wage Violations, Retaliatory Firing
Sep 29 2023 // The operator of a Subway restaurant franchise in Manhattan’s Lower East Side who the Department of Labor said fired an employee during its investigation has paid damages to the employee and back pay to 18 employees,...
Arkansas Restaurant Chain Sued for Sexual Harassment
Aug 14 2023 // Simply Slims, L.L.C., and or Dixie Chicken, L.L.C. d/b/a Slim Chickens in Hot Springs, Arkansas, violated federal law when it subjected a class of teens and young adults to sexual harassment and a sexually hostile work...
Tenn. Security Guard Not Guilty in On-Duty Shooting at Nashville Restaurant
Aug 14 2023 // A jury on Friday found a security guard not guilty of murder and other charges in a fatal shooting outside the Nashville restaurant where he was working, closing a case that hinged on whether he was justified in firing at...
Trial Begins for Security Guard Who Shot Man in Shootout at Nashville Restaurant
Aug 9 2023 // A security guard charged with second-degree murder over a 2018 fatal shooting outside the Nashville restaurant where he was working headed to trial Monday, a case that hinges on whether he was justified to fire at a man...
Car Crashes Into New Hampshire Restaurant, Injures Dozens
Jul 5 2023 // A car crashed into a busy New Hampshire restaurant and injured more than a dozen patrons inside, authorities said. The vehicle struck the Looney Bin Bar & Grill a little after 12:40 p.m. Sunday and came to a stop well...
California Restaurants Offered Priest to Extract Confessions of Workplace ‘Sins’
Jun 14 2023 // Federal wage and hour investigators say a northern California restaurant attempted to use an alleged priest to get employees to admit workplace “sins.” During litigation by the U.S. Department of Labor in...
Florida Sheriff Investigating After 7 Diners at Restaurant Fall Ill from Narcotics Poisoning
Jun 13 2023 // Florida authorities are investigating a steakhouse after seven patrons were hospitalized with what may have been poisoning from narcotics. Santa Rosa County Sheriff said that some type of narcotic was in the food at Nikko...
