Latest Restaurant Headlines

All the headlines from our Restaurant Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Squeezed from All Sides: Restaurants Pressured by Labor, Food, Insurance Costs

Mar 18 2024 // The food services industry is anticipating record sales for 2024. But insurance specialists serving the restaurant and bar sector say that forecast isn’t all good news. With higher sales come higher costs all...

Woman Gets 5-10 Years for Workers’ Comp Scam of Family Dollar, Restaurant

Mar 1 2024 // A Delaware woman will serve 5 to 10 years in state prison for a workers’ compensation scam that spanned 2.5 years, two states, and cost a Pennsylvania employer more than $170,000, according to Pennsylvania Attorney...

Grubhub to Pay $3.5M to Massachusetts Restaurants for Overcharging During COVID

Jan 17 2024 // Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell announced a $3.5 million settlement Friday with the online food delivery service platform Grubhub. The settlement resolves a 2021 lawsuit brought by Campbell alleging Grubhub...

Woman Sues Restaurant Claiming She Found Piece of Human Finger in Chopped Salad

Nov 29 2023 // When Alison Cozzi was eating the salad, she sensed something wasn’t right. It did not take long for her to realize that she was chewing on a portion of a human finger that had been mixed into the salad. It so...

Fraternity and Bar Sued Over 2021 Death of University of New Hampshire Student

Nov 14 2023 // The mother of a University of New Hampshire student who died in an icy swamp two years ago filed a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday against the Durham bar and fraternity her son visited that night. Vincenzo Lirosi, 22, was...

Pennsylvania Restaurant to Pay $269K for Illegal Pay Practices, Child Labor Violations

Oct 25 2023 // A Collegeville, Pennsylvania restaurant and its owners must pay $268,660 in back wages, liquidated damages and punitive damages to satisfy a consent judgment obtained by the U.S. Department of Labor after an investigation...

California Restaurant Mutual Benefit Group Raises $100M

Oct 18 2023 // California Restaurant Mutual Benefit Corp. raised $100 million in capital over the past decade from its members and through fiscal controls. CRMBC is a California self-insured group that provides workers’...

Subway Restaurant Franchise in Manhattan Pays for Wage Violations, Retaliatory Firing

Sep 29 2023 // The operator of a Subway restaurant franchise in Manhattan’s Lower East Side who the Department of Labor said fired an employee during its investigation has paid damages to the employee and back pay to 18 employees,...

Arkansas Restaurant Chain Sued for Sexual Harassment

Aug 14 2023 // Simply Slims, L.L.C., and or Dixie Chicken, L.L.C. d/b/a Slim Chickens in Hot Springs, Arkansas, violated federal law when it subjected a class of teens and young adults to sexual harassment and a sexually hostile work...

Tenn. Security Guard Not Guilty in On-Duty Shooting at Nashville Restaurant

Aug 14 2023 // A jury on Friday found a security guard not guilty of murder and other charges in a fatal shooting outside the Nashville restaurant where he was working, closing a case that hinged on whether he was justified in firing at...

Trial Begins for Security Guard Who Shot Man in Shootout at Nashville Restaurant

Aug 9 2023 // A security guard charged with second-degree murder over a 2018 fatal shooting outside the Nashville restaurant where he was working headed to trial Monday, a case that hinges on whether he was justified to fire at a man...

Car Crashes Into New Hampshire Restaurant, Injures Dozens

Jul 5 2023 // A car crashed into a busy New Hampshire restaurant and injured more than a dozen patrons inside, authorities said. The vehicle struck the Looney Bin Bar & Grill a little after 12:40 p.m. Sunday and came to a stop well...

California Restaurants Offered Priest to Extract Confessions of Workplace ‘Sins’

Jun 14 2023 // Federal wage and hour investigators say a northern California restaurant attempted to use an alleged priest to get employees to admit workplace “sins.” During litigation by the U.S. Department of Labor in...

Florida Sheriff Investigating After 7 Diners at Restaurant Fall Ill from Narcotics Poisoning

Jun 13 2023 // Florida authorities are investigating a steakhouse after seven patrons were hospitalized with what may have been poisoning from narcotics. Santa Rosa County Sheriff said that some type of narcotic was in the food at Nikko...

Sick Restaurant Workers Linked to 4 in 10 Food Illness Outbreaks

Jun 1 2023 // Sick restaurant and food-store workers were linked to four in 10 US foodborne disease outbreaks in recent years, yet few establishments had comprehensive policies in place to prevent contamination, a government analysis...

Frequency Declines But Lost Time Claims Costs Rise in Restaurant Workers’ Comp: Marsh

May 22 2023 // A shortage of workers in the restaurant industry is leading to more expensive and complex claims in workers’ compensation even as claim frequency declines, according to a recent report and webinar. Marsh recently...

McDonald’s Kentucky Franchises Fined for Working 10-year-olds at Restaurants

May 5 2023 // Two 10-year-olds are among 300 children who worked at McDonald’s restaurants illegally, a Labor Department investigation of franchisees in Kentucky found. Agency investigators found the 10-year-olds received little...

Court Throws out Berkeley, California’s Ban on Natural Gas

Apr 26 2023 // A federal appeals court overturned Berkeley, California’s first-in-the-nation ban on natural gas in new construction, agreeing with restaurant owners who argued the city bypassed federal energy regulations when it...

Restaurants Affected by Ransomware Attack on Payment System Firm NCR

Apr 18 2023 // Atlanta-based NCR Corp., one of the largest makers of payment systems, self-checkout technology and ATMs, said it had been targeted this week by a ransomware attack, affecting some customer restaurants. An NCR data center...

South Carolina Supreme Court Clarifies Law on Uninsured Motorists, Liquor Liability

Mar 30 2023 // The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday handed down three opinions that resolve two questions about insurance law. One decision will probably disappoint auto insurers; another will please carriers in the liquor...