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Peter Romeo

Editor at Large

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Peter Romeo has covered the restaurant industry since 1984 for a variety of media. As Editor At Large for Restaurant Business, his current beats are government affairs, labor and family dining. He is also the publication's unofficial historian.  

Articles by
Peter Romeo

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Marketing

New research shows a wait for a table can be a potent restaurant draw

A Penn State study found that a queue of fellow customers is taken as proof a patron has chosen the right place to eat.

Operations

Hitting resistance elsewhere, ghost kitchens and virtual concepts find a happy home in family dining

Reality Check: Old-guard chains are finding the alternative operations to be persistently effective side hustles.

Financing

Oberweis Dairy finds a buyer

The principal of another Illinois food manufacturer has offered to buy the chain of ice cream shops and its sister businesses.

Workforce

Biden administration kills the non-compete agreement

The FTC voted Tuesday to ban contractual limits on where a departing employee can work next, a move it says will foster startups and innovation.

Operations

Group aiming to lower swipe fees steals a page from the opposition's playbook

Restaurants and their allies argue that a bill intended to reduce processing charges would enhance data security, not undermine it.

Workforce

Overtime pay to be extended to salaried employees earning less than $43,888

The pool of managers entitled to time-and-a-half pay will jump again on Jan. 1, then increase every three years.

Marketing

There's enough color in TGI Fridays' past for a month of Sundays

Restaurant Rewind: With the casual-dining greybeard set to begin a new chapter as a British-owned concept, it’s a good time to remember the brand’s decidedly American past.

Workforce

Negotiations between Starbucks and its employees' union are set to begin

Simultaneously, the coffee chain's U.S. Supreme Court case commences Tuesday. It challenges certain of the NLRB's regulatory policies.

Operations

Check what ground beef is in your freezer, USDA advises

The agency's food safety arm has been alerted that ground beef products possibly contaminated with E. coli have made it to market.

Leadership

Restaurants bring the industry's concerns to Congress

Nearly 600 operators made their case to lawmakers as part of the National Restaurant Association’s Public Affairs Conference.

Financing

Restaurateur who stole $3.2 million in COVID aid is sentenced to 2 years in prison

Donald Finley, owner-operator of the now-closed Jekyll & Hyde eatertainment concept in New York City, has already repaid the funds he received from the Paycheck Protection Program and another government program.

Financing

Midwestern favorite Oberweis Dairy declares bankruptcy and cuts staff

The ice cream chain intends to lay off staff in June and cut its costs in other ways, but to remain in operation following a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. It is struggling to find a buyer.

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