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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

Starbucks and its union are ready to negotiate. What's on the table?

 By Peter Romeo on Oct. 03, 2022

Working Lunch: The give-and-take on scheduling and firings could have repercussions for all chains.

Financing

Not having an ESG strategy can be controversial. Now having one is turning dicey

 By Peter Romeo on Sep. 27, 2022

Conservative groups and politicians say they don't want to do business with those "woke" players.

Workforce

What’s next in the struggle to halt California’s new wage law

By Peter Romeo on Sep. 22, 2022

The industry's Hail Mary is using the 2024 ballot to enlist voters in the cause. Meanwhile, nine states are emerging as future battlegrounds.

Workforce

How 2 CEOs view the industry’s political problems and opportunities

By Restaurant Business Staff on Sep. 14, 2022

Working Lunch: Fat Brands' Andy Wiederhorn and the National Restaurant Association’s Michelle Korsmo team up on the podcast to dissect the industry’s key issues.

Technology

California could be the spoiler on federal legislation restaurants actually want

By Restaurant Business Staff on Aug. 22, 2022

Working Lunch: The state doesn't want its data-security requirements to be undercut by federal rules, leaving restaurants with a potential hodgepodge of state rules.

Workforce

Restaurants win a battle over California's pay disclosure bill, but the war could persist

By Restaurant Business Staff on Aug. 15, 2022

Working Lunch: Here's what's driving the demand that employers post their payrolls

Operations

Restaurants continue to flex their muscles in Washington D.C.

By Restaurant Business Staff on Aug. 08, 2022

Working Lunch: The podcast from Align Public Strategies features a discussion on the restaurant industry’s run of political success.

Financing

An ESG policy could land a company in trouble within these states

By Peter Romeo on Aug. 01, 2022

A new movement aims to counter "woke capitalism" by steering state support away from institutions that favor a commitment to ESG.

Workforce

Chipotle's shutdown of a unit kept it from unionizing. Or did it?

By Peter Romeo on Jul. 26, 2022

Working Lunch: Federal regulators could reverse the move, and the closing could spark more union drives.

Operations

Watch out for servers doubling as lookouts for celebs to protest

By Peter Romeo on Jul. 18, 2022

Activists are offering bounties for a spotting, as they did recently for a heads-up on Brett Kavanaugh.

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