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Peter Romeo

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Peter Romeo

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Marketing

What's in a name? Often not restaurants' most impressive work

Reality Check: Emerging markets tend to cycle through some clunker IDs until a label sticks.

Workforce

California brings back extended paid leave, gives restaurants a tax break

Workers are now entitled to up to 80 hours of pay while they nurse themselves or a family member back from a case of COVID-19.

Financing

Sysco doesn't foresee a quick end to omicron's impact

The distributor told investors that it also doesn't have a read on when food inflation will drop back down into single digits.

Operations

Restaurants to governments: Ditch the mask mandates, but to-go booze can stay

As omicron ebbs, the industry is leaning on governments to end some emergency measures and make others permanent.

Financing

Pennsylvania eyes more aid for small businesses

Gov. Wolf says $225 million of $1.7 billion in funding from the federal government should go to restaurants and other enterprises with less than $1 million in pre-pandemic revenues.

Leadership

Sonic's Claudia San Pedro named 2022 Restaurant Leader of the Year

The one-time Oklahoma state official was honored by Restaurant Business for leading the 69-year-old drive-in brand to new heights, before and during the pandemic.

Operations

Why Dave Thomas chose square burgers for Wendy's

Reality Check: McDonald's is going to give that shape a try, but for a radically different reason.

Operations

Look for big changes in to-go packaging—including the price

Reality Check: New environmental rules are coming in a flurry. Is the industry ready?

Workforce

Restaurant hiring accelerates despite omicron, new stats show

Eating and drinking places again led the nation in job creation, onboarding about 108,000 new workers, the federal figures show. The elevated demand drove up wages by 13% from a year ago, the Labor Department found.

Consumer Trends

Consumers now care more about how employees are treated, study finds

Patrons will readily shift their loyalties on the basis of how staffs are handled, particularly on COVID safety issues, according to the findings.

Workforce

Landmark fast-food bill advances in California

The FAST Act would put employees and union proponents on a board that could set wage rates. It would also legislate that franchisors and franchisees are joint employers.

Operations

Organizers upshift their efforts to unionize Starbucks

Sixteen more stores have just petitioned authorities to schedule union votes, a big leap from the prior rate of about five per week. Meanwhile, two already-unionized stores are beginning the collective bargaining process.

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