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Peter Romeo

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Workforce

A 4-day workweek test cut turnover by 57%

Fifty-six of the 61 participating employers have stuck with the model, and 15% of the workers said no amount of additional pay would lure them back to a five-day week.

Topics

Thinking of starting a tip pool? Read this first

The regulations have actually been simplified at the federal level. But they remain sufficiently complicated to require some navigating.

Workforce

California's fast-food industry faces another landmark change

Legislation has been introduced to designate restaurant franchisors and franchisees as joint employers of a unit's staff.

Operations

Reports of mid-market restaurants' death may be greatly exaggerated

Sweet & Sour: The pandemic has fostered doubts about the viability of mid-priced dining. But isn’t the pandemic fading fast?

Leadership

Norms names Eric Wyatt CEO

Wyatt joins the 73-year-old regional chain after working for such brands as Starbucks and Panera.

Operations

With 2 new concepts coming, 50-year-old Golden Corral refuses to act its age

The buffet operation is commemorating its golden anniversary with initiatives aimed at keeping it around for the next 50 years. That includes the launch of fast-casual and steakhouse concepts.

Operations

White House reveals plans to outfit more restaurants with electric-vehicle chargers

The efforts to build a recharging infrastructure involve Starbucks and a number of truck stop operators.

Operations

Denny's embraces new ways of broadening its customer base

The diner chain is trying a number of initiatives to keep its core business fresh and growing. Meanwhile, its parent is getting ready to expand Keke's.

Workforce

Bernie Sanders summons Starbucks' Howard Schultz to talk unions

The famously liberal U.S. senator has asked the coffee chain CEO to appear before a Senate committee and answer questions about Starbucks’ handling of an organizing drive.

Workforce

Why immigration isn't solving restaurants' labor problems—at least in the U.S.

All stakeholders seem to agree that comprehensive reform is needed. But that’s where agreement ends.

Operations

The attacks on ServSafe badly need a scrubbing

Sweet & Sour: Critics are blasting the life-saving program as a con job. They apparently prefer to kill the truth instead of germs.

Workforce

The IRS is eyeing high-tech ways of computing tipped workers' taxes

The new process could also yield a more precise calculation of how much in payroll taxes a restaurant employer should be paying.

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