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Working Lunch

Working Lunch is a podcast from Align Public Strategies devoted to explaining the so what and now what about key issues impacting the restaurant and retail industries.

Financing

Are the labor and supply chain issues scaring off investors?

 By Restaurant Business Staff on Jan. 21, 2022

Working Lunch: Mike Halen, senior restaurant industry analyst with Bloomberg Intelligence, joins Align Public Strategies to talk about the impact of current labor and supply chain issues on valuations.

Operations

SCOTUS sidelines the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate

 By Restaurant Business Staff on Jan. 14, 2022

Working Lunch: RB Editor-at-Large Peter Romeo joins Align Public Strategies to talk about the Supreme Court decision killing the vaccine mandate and growing unionization efforts

Operations

The restaurant industry’s legislative agenda for 2022

By Restaurant Business Staff on Jan. 07, 2022

Working Lunch: Mike Whatley, VP of state affairs and grassroots advocacy, discusses the industry’s key issues. Also, President Biden’s vaccine mandates, actions by governors and mayors.

Workforce

Boston becomes Starbucks’ newest battleground

By Restaurant Business Staff on Dec. 17, 2021

Working Lunch: This week’s episode of the podcast from Align Public Strategies features Tori Bedford with WGBH in Boston and Phil Wilson, president and general counsel of the Labor Relations Institute.

Operations

Starbucks has a new partner in Buffalo: The SEIU

By Restaurant Business Staff on Dec. 10, 2021

Working Lunch: This episode of the podcast from Align Public Strategies features a deep dive on Starbucks’ new union, as well as McDonald’s investment in new franchisees and the impact on Amazon.

Workforce

Introducing the 'Working Lunch' podcast

By Jonathan Maze on Oct. 29, 2021

Restaurant Business will start publishing the weekly politics-focused show from the public affairs firm Align Public Strategies. The first episode: On In-N-Out’s vaccination pushback.