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What unionized Starbucks employees are demanding in their contracts

Working Lunch: The big ask is for a guarantee of 37 scheduled hours per week, set months in advance.

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‘Erratic’ best describes restaurant tipping for servers post-pandemic

Inflation, guest expectations and a customer’s mood all play into how generous or stingy a tip will be. Good service may have nothing—or a lot—to do with it.

The American style of tipping your server emerged during reconstruction and took decades to be accepted. But it became entrenched during Prohibition and is now a deeply ingrained social norm.

The pandemic and its aftermath have upended tipping etiquette in America, leaving consumers frustrated and confused even as many pony up for the extra charges.

A review of recent legislative and regulatory activity finds government officials eyeing a number of measures with implications for restaurants.

Food services and drinking places added nearly 70,000 jobs in February, according to new federal data. They are now 100,000 jobs short of pre-pandemic levels.

Triple B, a Black-owned foodservice provider for workplaces, schools and event venues, will help Aramark clients overcome labor challenges and improve their diversity.

Third-party couriers now stand to earn $19.96 an hour by 2025, nearly $4 less than what was originally proposed.

Deliveries have been added on Saturdays and Sundays to provide more scheduling flexibility to employees, but customers have discovered a labor benefit as well.

For franchises, growth is paramount. But accomplishing that is proving more difficult thanks to rising interest rates, construction costs and labor issues.

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