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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.  

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Workforce

Tomorrow's aspiring industry leaders strut their stuff at ProStart's national competition

The program's best went head to head for a weekend in Baltimore, with 96 teenaged teams vying for $200,000 in scholarships to continue their restaurant educations.

Food

How we all came to scream for ice cream

Restaurant Rewind: 'Tis the season to break out the sprinkles and split a few bananas. Join us as we look at the origins of ice cream and how it evolved to the sales-driver it is today.

Financing

5 bonbons from Denny's not-so-sweet quarterly update

Traffic slumped, but the family-dining stalwart offered a few aha moments in its recount of what happened.

Financing

The odds for keeping delivery fees and large-party gratuities aren't looking good

Working Lunch: The Biden administration doesn't get that those aren't true "junk fees."

Workforce

New York mandates a new employee benefit: Paid leave for expectant parents

The state's nearly $400 billion budget also obliges restaurants and other employers to provide paid half-hour breaks for nursing mothers.

Marketing

Meet the restaurant industry's new government adversary

Reality Check: The FTC wants the business to change several longstanding operating conventions. Has it heard why that's a bad idea?

Marketing

NYC asks for input on a new menu-labeling requirement

Items with high sugar content will need to be flagged, but only if they're exactly what's available in packaged retail form. The targets are beverages.

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.

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