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Financing

How restaurants can avoid becoming a political football

 By Jonathan Maze on Oct. 19, 2022

A Deeper Dive: Joe Kefauver, managing partner with Align Public Strategies, joins the Restaurant Business podcast to talk about ESG, unions and the Fast Act.

Financing

SEC wants public restaurant companies to give a farm-to-fork carbon assessment

 By Peter Romeo on Oct. 18, 2022

The financial securities watchdog is considering disclosure requirements that go beyond what industry lobbyists say is feasible.

Workforce

Restaurant chains pour money into effort to kill California's fast-food wage act

By Peter Romeo on Oct. 18, 2022

Chains like In-N-Out, Starbucks and Chipotle are contributing millions to a drive that would put the Fast Act on the 2024 ballot.

Food

USDA proposes a new strategy for keeping salmonella out of chicken

By Peter Romeo on Oct. 14, 2022

It intends to adopt a new regulatory framework that could keep contaminated product out of the supply chain.

Financing

How Canada’s restaurants intend to fix some familiar-sounding problems

By Peter Romeo on Oct. 13, 2022

The top challenges are the same ones facing operators on this side of the border. The solutions, not so much.

Food

The FDA sours on sugar

By Patricia Cobe on Sep. 30, 2022

In its new proposed rule that defines “healthy” on packaged food labels, the Food & Drug Administration is cracking down on sugar and nutrient fortification of junk foods.

Operations

Biden wants to end hunger and diet-related disease by 2030

By Lisa Jennings on Sep. 28, 2022

White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health kicks off strategy to eliminate hunger in America by 2030 and reduce diet-related disease.

Workforce

California mandates more pay transparency from employers

By Peter Romeo on Sep. 28, 2022

Help Wanted ads will be required to carry a pay range, and potential hires can't be asked about their past pay levels.

Food

Feds take aim at high meat costs, but for the long range

By Peter Romeo on Sep. 27, 2022

The USDA has started funding the startup of more processors in hopes of curbing prices through competition. The program is one of several revealed by the White House with implications for restaurants.

Financing

Minn. restaurateurs are charged with scamming $250M in pandemic aid

By Peter Romeo on Sep. 27, 2022

The operators allegedly hatched and executed a scheme to cheat a feeding program for children.

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