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Peter Romeo

Editor at Large

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Peter Romeo

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Workforce

How the restaurant industry intends to kill the Fast Act, in California and beyond

The business has two years to muster public support in California for recalling the law. There and elsewhere, the plan calls for explaining how the measure will drain consumers' wallets.

Workforce

Does stealing an elf count as naughty, Santa?

Managing a toy workshop must be a breeze compared with running restaurants today. Here's what the Man in Red should slip onto his sleigh to make 2023 a little easier for operators.

Operations

How supper clubs are keeping the past alive

Restaurant Rewind: A true Midwestern peculiarity, establishments that grew out of speakeasies and roadhouses are still going strong. Mix yourself an old fashioned and find out why.

Leadership

Restaurant luminaries we lost in 2022

The notable passings include the deaths of chain founders, a salacious critic and the co-founder of Ronald McDonald Houses.

Financing

New Senate plan would channel aid to restaurants that missed out on RRF money

But the assistance, capped at $25,000, would be available only to small operations.

Operations

Hot restaurant concepts of 2022

The transitional year turned several previously obscure segments into big gainers.

Financing

Father-and-son restaurant team are sentenced for cheating on their PPP applications

Izzat and Tarik Freitekh were sentenced to 36 and 87 months in prison, respectively, for defrauding the aid program.

Workforce

'Joint employer' proposal brings a wave of warnings from the franchise community

Industry associations and about 3,000 franchisees have blasted the redefinition being pushed by the NLRB.

Marketing

Americans are counting on restaurants for their holiday meals, a new study finds

A survey conducted by the National Restaurant Association found that 77% of consumers will have pros do the cooking.

Workforce

Group opposed to the tip credit leans on Applebee's to drop it

One Fair Wage is planning protests and a publicity war to goad the chain into paying servers the full minimum wage.

Operations

The top restaurant trends of 2022

It was a year of transition, with operators adapting to the new realities left by the pandemic.

Financing

The louts we’ve crossed off our holiday gift list

Coal is too good for these restaurant industry scoundrels. Roadkill, maybe?

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