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Reality Check

Peter Romeo

The blog from award-winning journalist, RB Editor-at-Large Peter Romeo. Peter taps into his decades of experience covering the restaurant business at a variety of publications to discuss any number of issues related to the operations and general direction of restaurants.

Workforce

Tech's labor benefits may be different from what you think

 By Peter Romeo on Sep. 20, 2022

Reality Check: Technology's big payback isn't eliminating jobs, it's making current job holders happier.

Workforce

In drives to kill the tip credit, voters could prove the assassins

 By Peter Romeo on Sep. 19, 2022

Reality Check: Opponents of the wage break for employers are using ballot initiatives to get their way.

Workforce

Why aren't restaurants losing sleep over the new labor threat?

By Peter Romeo on Sep. 12, 2022

Reality Check: The industry nodded through the takeaway of key employer powers. Is it just going to roll over as the setbacks continue?

Workforce

Restaurants need to make some noise about 'quiet quitting'

By Peter Romeo on Sep. 02, 2022

Reality Check: The trend of the moment for employers should be particularly worrisome for the foodservice business.

Leadership

Is this Starbucks' next CEO?

By Peter Romeo on Aug. 30, 2022

He checks many of the boxes on Starbucks' list of ideal characteristics, and his education background could be the labor remedy that's eluded the brand.

Workforce

Unionization is no longer a looming worry for restaurant chains—it's here

By Peter Romeo on Jul. 13, 2022

Reality Check: A variety of brands are now contending with organizing efforts, and the tally is growing quickly.

Workforce

California eyes a new way of setting fast-food wages, and the industry yawns

By Peter Romeo on Jul. 11, 2022

Reality Check: Wake up to the very real possibility of employees having a say on their pay.

Workforce

What the unionization of Starbucks could mean for customers

By Peter Romeo on Jun. 14, 2022

Reality Check: Management is worried the focus on employees will temper the importance of patrons. It may not be giving the workers enough credit.

Leadership

6 innovations that trace back to Howard Johnson's

By Peter Romeo on Jun. 06, 2022

Reality Check: If you think the now-defunct brand did little more than popularize fried clams, read on.

Operations

4 big questions raised by the National Restaurant Association Show

By Peter Romeo on May 23, 2022

Reality Check: The industry's largest gathering provided nearly everything an operator could want, but it posed some tough questions as well.

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