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Peter Romeo

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Peter Romeo

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Rising food-safety danger puts restaurants on defense

A spike in the number of Shigella cases reported across the nation have turned attention on the potential risk to restaurants, as one shuttered place in California can attest.

Yum! opts for a Chinese spinoff

The parent of Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut will create a publicly traded second company to operate stores in the Asian nation as a franchisee.

States move to reverse ‘joint employer’ redefinition

At least five more will follow the three that have already legislatively defined franchisees as sole employers of their staffs, according to the IFA.

Subway proposes settlement in mega class action

The deal could involve any customers who purchased a six-inch or footlong sub over a 12-year period.

Yum says it's close to a yea-or-nay on a breakup

The company has expanded its board to include a shareholder who has favored a change. The strategic assessment is close to completion, Yum said.

This week’s 5 head-spinning moments: What’d Danny Meyer say?

His announcement about tipping sent tremors through the full-service sector, but how he made it holds lessons for every restaurateur.

McDonald’s draws heat for messaging to school kids

Critics say two programs are really marketing campaigns masquerading as do-good efforts.

McDonald’s feels effects of all-day breakfast

A new value menu is next on management’s turnaround list.

The good and bad of admitting mistakes

If the restaurant industry reflects what’s happening in society, parents will soon be out-bragging one another about whose kid is the biggest screwup.

Financing

How the industry is fighting back against a rising minimum wage

The call to increase minimum wage is ringing louder and louder across the country. Here's how restaurants and industry interest groups are responding.

What does the Labor Board's franchisor liability decision mean?

If any upshot of the National Labor Relations Board’s bombshell ruling is a certainty at this point, it’s that lawyers are going to make a lot of money.

Leadership

Remembering Subway Co-founder Fred DeLuca

Fred DeLuca never reduced the formula for building the world’s largest restaurant chain into a neat sound bite of a philosophy, but he was quick to cite two pillars to his thinking, be it about ...

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