Reality Check

Peter Romeo

The blog from award-winning journalist, RB Editor-at-Large Peter Romeo. Peter taps into his decades of experience covering the restaurant business at a variety of publications to discuss any number of issues related to the operations and general direction of restaurants.

Operations

This week’s 5 head-turning moments: Politics as un-usual

Restaurants found themselves knee-deep in the swamp of politics and social controversy this week. Here are the gloppy details.

Workforce

This week’s head-spinning moment: Restaurants shout, 'Enough!'

New York City operators push back with an angry-sounding manifesto for Mayor Bill de Blasio.

As if supply and demand weren’t enough of a labor problem for restaurants, along comes a pummeling from unions and their fellow travelers, including the vote by a Burgerville unit's staff to unionize.

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