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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.

Operations

Restaurants make progress on credit card fees at the state level

 By Restaurant Business Staff on Aug. 26, 2024

Working Lunch: The political podcast featuring Align Public Strategies features Brennan Duckett, director of technology and innovation policy for the National Restaurant Association.

Workforce

The No Taxes on Tips issue refuses to go away

 By Peter Romeo on Aug. 20, 2024

Working Lunch: Its appeal as a policy talking point is going to mandate some sort of action when tax changes are taken up next year, regardless of which party wins in November.

Leadership

Here's a restaurateur's guide to what the summer's extraordinary politics signal for the business

By Peter Romeo on Aug. 06, 2024

Working Lunch: It's hardly been politics as usual. The implications might be equally as surprising.

Marketing

What restaurants should take away from last week's Republican convention

By Peter Romeo on Jul. 24, 2024

Working Lunch: The tone of the gathering was decidedly anti-corporate. Blame J.D. Vance for the puzzling twist.

Operations

How will the Supreme Court’s Chevron ruling affect restaurants?

By Restaurant Business Staff on Jul. 15, 2024

Working Lunch: The podcast from Align Public Strategies also delves into an idea to eliminate taxes on tips as well as developments in Ohio and Massachusetts.

Workforce

Trump's promise to end taxes on tips could put Democrats on their heels

By Peter Romeo on Jun. 24, 2024

Working Lunch: The effort may be more of a feint, but it's a visible test of the pro-labor party's true commitment to boosting worker incomes.

Workforce

Here's what the presidential candidates are promising for the restaurant business

By Peter Romeo on Jun. 17, 2024

Working Lunch: Both Trump and Biden are pledging moves that the industry would readily feel.

Operations

How Michigan restaurants beat back a minimum-wage ballot measure

By Restaurant Business Staff on Jun. 10, 2024

Working Lunch: Justin Winslow, CEO of the Michigan Restaurant and Lodging Association, joins the podcast to talk about his group’s successful fight against a state ballot initiative.

Workforce

Another fine-dining star faces unionization, stoking fears of a Starbucks-like organizing blitz

By Peter Romeo on Jun. 03, 2024

Working Lunch: "We may be on the verge of having an organizing effort in the fine-dining segment."

Workforce

A regulatory change promises to make the unionization of restaurants even easier

By Peter Romeo on May 29, 2024

Working Lunch: The new process is already being used against single-unit operations.

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