Posting health inspection letter grades in the front window or on the door of the restaurant seems to be picking up steam everywhere. California has been doing it for years. I don’t think it’ll be long before this is the norm. From a consumer perspective it’s great. There are a bunch of apps that you …
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Millennial eating demands are splitting in two
I have seen and read a bunch of articles about millennials in the workplace and how to manage them etc. But this is the first I have seen about their eating habits and it’s potential effect on the restaurant business. The Indy Star had an article on this topic that was very interesting. Here are …
FDA: 3 People Die from Foodborne Illness Linked to Ice Cream
Blue Bell Creamery is being tied to a listeria outbreak. 5 people in Wichita were hospitalized, 3 of them wound up dying due to the foodborne illness. Blue Bell has stopped production and distribution of the products linked to the illness. They say it’s related to one piece of equipment in one production plant. The …
Tipping the scales: Wage increase gets mixed reaction from restaurant industry
Read another article today, kind of a follow up to the Glens Falls article we discussed a week or so ago, about the effects of NY State upping tipped workers’ minimum wage by 50% by the end of the year. The Saratogian talked to restaurant owners, tipped workers, and customers to get a perspective on …
New rules for servers worrying restaurant owners
The article below from the Glens Falls Post-Star showed up in my feed. Glens Falls is a small resort town in the Adirondack mountains in NY. Very heavy summer traffic. The rest of the year is sporadic. Foliage in the fall, some ski traffic in the winter and that’s about it. The article is focusing …
Restaurant Industry Added 58,700 Jobs in February
The good news keeps on rolling in for the restaurant industry. Preliminary figures estimate that 58,700 jobs were added by the restaurant industry in February. Here are some of the highlights: 60th consecutive monthly increase and strongest gain since December 2012 December – February will represent the strongest three-month payroll expansion on record if the figures …
Restaurant Industry Remained in Growth Mode During January
The good news continued through January for the restaurant industry. Foodservice Equipment & Supplies magazine posted an article on the National Restaurant Association’s Restaurant Performance Index for January 2015. The restaurant industry again showed expansion in January with an RPI of 102.7. Here are some of the highlights from the article: Seventy percent of restaurant …
Businesses Balk at Obamacare Definition of Full-Time Work
US News and World Report posted an article today discussing the new provision in the Affordable Care Act that 30 hour work weeks are considered full time and it’s effects on the service industry and others. There’s a lot of debate on this topic in a lot of industries, but this hits the restaurant and hospitality …
Proposed R.I. bill to regulate restaurant tips draws a crowd
Below is an article from the Providence Journal regarding some proposed state legislation in RI around tips. Here are a few of the items the bill covers: Would prohibit employers from deducting a credit card service fee from a tip left for an employee Would also ban required tip pools Would require that the employee …
Feds roll out new way to analyze food outbreak data
Interesting article from the University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy about the US Government improving methods for sifting through data to estimate which foods are contributing to outbreaks. They focused the report on the four main outbreaks: Salmonella, Escherichia coli O157, Listeria monocytogenes, and Campylobacter. It’s great that the government is focusing on …