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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.

Workforce

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.

Financing

Restaurants turn to the states for relief on credit-card fees

Working Lunch: The argument against including sales taxes in the fee base is gaining traction.

Working Lunch: The podcast, from Align Public Strategies, features a discussion on the upcoming testimony by Starbucks’ interim CEO in front of Sanders’ U.S. Senate committee.

Working Lunch: Sanders may indeed be able to compel a Senate appearance by the outgoing chain CEO, but that's just one of the issues that Starbucks faced in the last week or so.

Working Lunch: The CEO is quick to shift responsibility to societal trends. So why is the brand making so many operational changes?

Working Lunch: "I see the fine hand of the anti-tipping lobby at play here," says co-host Joe Kefauver.

Working Lunch: The industry is under attack in the political arena, with battles forming on a host of fronts.

Working Lunch: Proposals in Massachusetts and Virginia are proof the wage-setting model called for by California's first-of-its-kind law is spreading geographically and across job types.

Working Lunch: The recent New York Times story was a hit piece. There was so much more that should have been in it.

Working Lunch: The EVP of public policy for the National Restaurant Association joins the podcast to discuss the legal situation with the controversial law.

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