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Edward Don Welcomes New VP of HR

Mills is responsible for the overall human resources strategy at Don, including talent management, succession planning, employee/labor relations and...

Turning an interesting startup into a major industry player takes a lot of vision, leadership and a taste for the risky. This year, Kevin Reddy made it all look easy.

Continuing high unemployment rates across the U.S. point to a still bumpy road to recovery, but there are signs of hope in the year ahead. Although restaurant traffic was down 1 percent in the third quarter of 2010, visits to restaurants increased during the fourth quarter and growth is forecast to continue into 2011.

If you weren’t scared of Obamacare before going into an NRA session on healthcare reform, you were terrified when you left.

Overlooked in the information torrent of the last week were tidbits relating to everything from the trend in birthday business to why some restaurant hourlies might prefer to say “Welcome to Wal-Mart!”

The reimbursement of tips and back pay was the result of a federal investigation of the six restaurants’ tip policies in mid-2011.

The industry’s pre-Great Recession labor crunch has yet to return, but the numbers suggest a steady move in that direction.

The move is cited by both parties in the debate over franchisors being reclassified as “joint employers” of franchisees’ staffs.

Operators view labor costs as the biggest threat to profitability.

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