Latest Restaurant Headlines
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2 People Injured After Ceiling Collapses Inside Atlanta Airport Restaurant
Feb 18 2020 // Part of a restaurant ceiling collapsed inside Atlanta’s airport Thursday, leaving a large chunk of it draped over countertops in the dining area. One person was taken to a hospital, and a second person was treated at...
Arkansas Restaurant to Pay $300K to Settle Federal Sex Harassment Lawsuit
Feb 7 2020 // Pei Wei Asian Diner LLC, doing business as Pei Wei Fresh Kitchen in Little Rock, Arkansas, will pay $300,000 to former employees as part of a settlement of a sexual harassment and constructive discharge lawsuit. The U.S....
W. Virginia Girl’s Fall Into Restaurant Grease Pit Prompts Legislation to Toughen Fines
Feb 6 2020 // Kara Cvechko recalled her heart pounding as she scrambled headfirst down into an outdoor grease pit to save her 5-year-old daughter who had fallen through an unsecured opening at a West Virginia restaurant. Kambria...
18 Sickened After Private Function at Popular New Hampshire Restaurant
Dec 30 2019 // Eighteen people were sickened with a gastrointestinal illness after attending a private function last month at a restaurant co-owned by a Democratic congressman that’s popular with presidential candidates, state...
Vermont Bar Owners Settle Lawsuit with Woman Injured in Shooting
Dec 18 2019 // The owners of a Vermont bar settled a case Monday with a woman who was accidentally shot in the lung outside their establishment in 2018. Chelsi Parker, 26, and the owners of Nectar’s bar in Burlington resolved a...
McDonald’s Wins Battle With Labor, Avoids Joint Employer Liability with Franchises
Dec 13 2019 // McDonald’s Corp. has won a huge victory in a multiyear legal battle over whether it should share responsibility for alleged labor violations in its franchisees’ restaurants, a case that posed a major threat to...
McDonald’s Has Friends in High Places in High-Stakes Labor Fight
Dec 12 2019 // In a television commercial that’s become part of the lore surrounding Donald Trump’s affinity for McDonald’s Corp., he embraced a purple, lumpy denizen of the fast-food chain’s...
McDonald’s Will Pay $26 Million to Settle California Wage, Overtime, Break Claims
Dec 2 2019 // McDonald’s Corp. agreed to pay $26 million to settle a nearly seven-year-old lawsuit accusing the fast food chain of underpaying U.S. staff at its corporate-owned restaurants in California. The preliminary settlement...
McDonald’s Will Pay $26 Million to Settle California Wage, Overtime, Break Claims
Nov 26 2019 // McDonald’s Corp. agreed to pay $26 million to settle a nearly seven-year-old lawsuit accusing the fast food chain of underpaying U.S. staff at its corporate-owned restaurants in California. The preliminary settlement...
Health Department Links Salmonella Outbreak to North Carolina Restaurant
Nov 26 2019 // Health officials say a barbeque restaurant in North Carolina may have sickened about a dozen people with salmonella. A press release from the Nash County Health Department says the operating permit for Doug Saul’s...
Employee Lawsuit Claims McDonald’s Fails to Address Sexual Harassment
Nov 13 2019 // Mc Donald’s Corp. was sued on Tuesday by workers in Michigan who accused the fast-food chain of allowing pervasive sexual harassment to flourish at its restaurants nationwide. The proposed class action lawsuit filed...
Arkansas Restaurant Faces Charges of Sex Harassment of Teens, Young Adults
Oct 25 2019 // Pei Wei Asian Diner LLC, doing business as Pei Wei Fresh Kitchen in Little Rock Ark., has been charged with subjecting a class of female teens and young adults to sexual harassment and a sexually hostile work environment...
Two Women Allege Sexual Harassment, Abuse at Connecticut-Based Restaurant Chain
Oct 7 2019 // Two former employees of a Connecticut-based restaurant chain say in a lawsuit that they were subjected to a pattern of sexual harassment and abuse by a manager. Gianna Aconfora and Maizzy Douchette allege in the suit filed...
Stealing Is Contagious
Oct 7 2019 // The restaurant industry, like many cash industries, is ripe for theft. One thing to take note of is just how contagious bad behaviors like stealing tend to be inside food establishments. New research by three researchers...
Feds Fine Popular New Orleans Restaurant $238K for Unpaid Overtime
Oct 4 2019 // The U.S. Department of Labor has ordered a popular New Orleans restaurant to pay $238,000 in back wages to 222 employees who weren’t properly paid for overtime work. News outlets report an agency investigation...
150-Plus Eateries Cited for Violating Louisiana Seafood Label Law
Oct 4 2019 // More than 150 Louisiana restaurants have been cited for not disclosing to customers they were selling imported rather than domestic seafood. The citations from the Louisiana Department of Health stem from a new law...
How Restaurant Employees Who Steal Learn From Their Peers
Oct 1 2019 // Plenty of workplace research shows that people with helpful, mentoring colleagues tend to be helpful and perform better themselves. Few researchers have looked at whether bad behavior spreads among workplace...
New Orleans Restaurant Pays $55.2K for Labor Law Violations After Child Injured
Sep 30 2019 // A New Orleans restaurant has paid more than $55,000 after an investigation revealed it had violated multiple U.S. child labor laws by hiring a 13 year-old, who subsequently was severely injured at the workplace. The U.S....
Trial Begins in East Village Gas Explosion That Killed Two
Sep 11 2019 // A construction scheme to service high rent tenants created a virtual bomb, causing the 2015 gas explosion in Manhattan’s East Village that killed two people, injured 19 others and leveled three buildings, prosecutors...
McDonald’s Expands Training to Address Workplace Harassment, Violence Prevention
Sep 4 2019 // The world’s biggest restaurant company, facing complaints from employees and advocacy groups over workplace policies, said it is expanding its training program for restaurant supervisors and crew. McDonald’s...
