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Best practices for improving recruitment, retention and training

Staff as tour guides

By Sara Rush Wirth on Feb. 12, 2018

Want customers to buy in to new flavors? Start with servers’ selling skills.

Understanding the argument over tip sharing

By Peter Romeo on Feb. 12, 2018

A proposal to allow tip sharing between front- and back-of-house employees has touched off a firestorm. Here is what the two sides are saying about the plan, which is awaiting action from the Department of Labor.

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Restaurants find an ally in their fight to keep the tip credit: Servers

By Peter Romeo on Feb. 16, 2018

A newly formed national organization is aiming to combat proposals for disallowing the credit.

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Oakland mayor warns of another immigration crackdown

By Peter Romeo on Feb. 27, 2018

The civic leader made the extraordinary move of warning local businesses and residents, saying she hoped to avert panic.

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Noodles beefs up its benefits package

By Jonathan Maze on Mar. 02, 2018

Amid a worker shortage, the company is offering six weeks paid maternity leave and adoption assistance.

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A major labor complication and 4 other head-spinning moments

By Peter Romeo on Mar. 08, 2018

New twists added surprising complications to the familiar challenges of securing labor and managing food costs. And those weren't the only new facets of longstanding problems to come to light.

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