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Peter Romeo

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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.

Operations

Restaurants lean strongly toward a re-election of Trump

A straw poll conducted during the National Restaurant Association's Public Affairs Conference found a nearly 2:1 preference for the Republican ex-president.

Emerging Brands

P.F. Chang's opens a fast-casual Asian bowl concept

A Pagoda by P.F. Chang's is operating in a suburban New York shopping mall. It's the chain's third crack at a fast-casual spinoff.

Operations

Frisch's vies to keep nostalgia from becoming quicksand

You're not going to find boba tea or the latest tech there, says CEO James Walker. But you're not going to be bored with the same old same ole, either, he says.

Workforce

EEOC broadens employers' obligations to pregnant workers

The updated workplace regulations require companies with at least 15 employees to make such concessions as allowing expectant mothers to sit down while working and adjusting schedules to permit time for doctor visits.

Leadership

How the Restaurant Leadership Conference came to be

Restaurant Rewind: The conference has grown from a few hundred attendees to several thousands, without losing the uniqueness of those early days. Here's what's in its DNA.

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