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Peter Romeo

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Peter Romeo

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Financing

Skippers has a new owner and growth plan

The onetime cult favorite has shrunk to five full-fledged restaurants and 128 stations in c-stores and supermarkets. The buyer, the distribution company Harbor Wholesale, intends to grow the brand.

Workforce

Another union setback may not be the worst of Starbucks' labor problems

Reality Check: Units aren't using the sophisticated tech that's been installed to alleviate GM's personnel burdens.

Workforce

Starbucks loses another round in its struggle to halt unionization

Three more stores in Buffalo, N.Y., will vote at the end of the month on union representation. In all, organizing activities are underway in about 25 stores.

Workforce

Why the Supreme Court’s vaccine decision is bad for restaurants

Reality Check: Sure, complying with Biden's mandate would have cost time, money and aggravation. But might the alternative be even worse?

Workforce

Biden administration shifts its emphasis to voluntary workplace vaccination and testing

Hours after the Supreme Court struck down a mandate that employees of large companies be vaccinated against COVID-19, the U.S. Department of Labor indicated it would urge companies to make the move on their own volition.

Workforce

Supreme Court blocks Biden's employee vaccine mandate

The matter is still not dead because of pending deliberations at the circuit-court level, but the nation's highest court said it expects the requirement to be shot down.

Operations

Ready for a vaccine requirement? Here’s how to tell.

Take this test to see if you've thought of everything that could be involved.

Workforce

Illinois bets Biden's employee vaccine mandate will hold

While the U.S. Supreme Court deliberates, the state is mandating compliance, starting Feb. 24.

Financing

California proposes tax breaks for restaurants, but new burdens, too

Under Gov. Newsom's proposals, PPP and RRF aid would not be taxed, but paid leave would be reinstated.

Workforce

Union organizers make more headway at Starbucks

A second store has unionized, and a vote on organizing starts at a third on Friday.

Operations

4 issues percolating on the government front for restaurants

Reality Check: And—surprise, surprise—some of them are good news for an industry that’s taken its lumps.

Workforce

Restaurant employment inched upward in December

But the numbers crunched by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics don't fully reflect the impact of omicron.

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