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Peter Romeo

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Peter Romeo

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Workforce

Are restaurant cashiers headed for extinction?

Reality Check: The job of taking orders and settling bills may be one of the tech boom's first casualties or major benefits, depending on your perspective.

Financing

Here's who we're leaving off our holiday gift list

Insurers, landlords, the SBA, mask deniers, Mother Nature and the guy who wrote "Fancylike" are all those that should receive coal this year.

Leadership

What were they thinking???

Politics, poorly considered comparisons, bad texts and poorly conceived relief plans: The biggest restaurant blunders of 2021.

Workforce

Push to unionize Starbucks spreads to Arizona

A handful of employees at a unit in the city of Mesa say they intend to organize. The game plan follows what worked for union advocates in Buffalo, N.Y.

Marketing

Restaurant gift cards abound on holiday wish lists this year, study finds

About 2 of 3 consumers hope to get one, according to the National Restaurant Association.

Workforce

Legal challenges to Biden's vaccine mandate intensify

On one front, industry groups and state attorneys general are suing to block the measure. On another, unions are suing to expand the scope to smaller businesses. Other stakeholders say the situation is too fluid to halt preparations.

Workforce

Tipping finds new life as a fast-food labor remedy

Reality Check: More quick-service restaurants are providing ways for guests to tip employees. Heck, even unions are suddenly for it.

Financing

Los Angeles County launches program to pay overdue rents

Restaurants and other small businesses in unincorporated areas can apply for grants of up to $40,000.

Workforce

After 3.5 years, Burgerville and its employees' union have a labor contract

The negotiations stretched across 51 meetings, all the way back to June 2018.

Workforce

Court extends postponement of Biden's vaccine mandate

The federal appeals court did not rule on the legality of the requirement, but called it "staggeringly overbroad."

Workforce

Restaurant workers continued to quit their jobs in September

About 6.6% of the hospitality industry's workforce voluntarily exited their positions during the month, according to new federal data.

Workforce

Will Starbucks' union vote touch off a new labor crisis?

What happens in Buffalo, N.Y., during the next few weeks could yield an answer. And the situation isn't looking good for the coffee giant.

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