Latest Restaurant Headlines
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Southern California Restaurant Fined $1.1M for Labor Violations
Mar 24 2025 // A Southern California restaurant has been fined more than $1.1 million over wage theft and sick leave violations. The California Labor Commissioner’s Office took the action against Food Source LLC, a Buena Park...
Restaurants, Insurance Agents Strive for Stability as Costs Continue to Rise
Mar 24 2025 // This year restaurants and bars continue to grapple with many of the same challenges they faced in 2024. The rising cost of labor and food, along with the ongoing struggle to recruit and retain employees, remain among the...
Southern California Restaurant Fined $1.1M for Labor Violations
Mar 7 2025 // A Southern California restaurant has been fined more than $1.1 million over wage theft and sick leave violations. The California Labor Commissioner’s Office took the action against Food Source LLC, a Buena Park...
Minnesota Restaurant Owner to Pay $105K in Back Wages
Dec 27 2024 // Four Minneapolis restaurants with shared ownership will pay $105,784 in back wages, damages and penalties to resolve violations identified by U.S. Department of Labor, including illegally firing an employee who cooperated...
Michigan Taco Restaurant Owner Ordered to Pay $823K in Back Wages
Dec 23 2024 // A federal court has ordered the owner of three West Michigan taco restaurants to pay 177 workers a total of $823,326 after the court granted the U.S. Department of Labor’s request for summary judgment, concluding...
Chicago Restaurant Owners to Pay $125K in Overtime Back Wages
Dec 20 2024 // The U.S. Department of Labor obtained a consent judgment and order in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Dec. 2, 2024, that requires D’Nuez Corp. and owners Antonio Rendon and Albino...
NC Supreme Court Bucks Trend, Finds COVID Caused Physical Loss to Restaurants
Dec 16 2024 // Courts across the country have overwhelmingly ruled in favor of insurance carriers in claims disputes following the government-ordered closures of businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. The North Carolina Supreme Court...
Famous Gulf Coast Restaurant and Owner Fined $1.5M for Mislabeling Seafood
Nov 20 2024 // GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi Gulf Coast restaurant and its co-owner it were sentenced Monday on federal charges of mislabeling inexpensive imported seafood as local premium fish. Mary Mahoney’s Old French...
Wisconsin Pizza Restaurant to Pay $99K Over Child Labor Law Violations
Nov 15 2024 // A Wisconsin pizza restaurant has agreed to pay $99,000 in fines after a Department of Labor investigation found the business assigned teenage employees to dangerous duties. Investigators found Pizza Parlor and owner...
Michigan Culver’s Restaurants Sued for Discriminating Against Transgender Employee
Oct 29 2024 // Five related entities operating Culver’s restaurants in Michigan violated federal law when they fired a transgender employee and three of his colleagues after they complained about harassment, the U.S. Equal...
Equipment Breakdown Tops Small Restaurant Claims List
Oct 21 2024 // With restaurant sales projected to top $1 trillion and reach record-breaking heights this year, a California-based insurance technology company versed in the space recently analyzed data from more than 30,000 small...
Louisiana Seafood Restaurant Sued for Sexual Harassment
Oct 1 2024 // Minden Seafood, LLC, a seafood restaurant in Minden, Louisiana, violated federal law when it failed to stop a male worker from repeatedly sexually harassing a female employee and refused to rehire her after she quit, the...
Colorado Battles Hotel, Restaurant Industry Trade Groups Over Climate Rules
Sep 27 2024 // When it comes to climate change, there are two Chipotles. One is the fast-casual burrito chain with a focus on sustainable ingredients, an app that lets customers track the carbon footprint of their orders and a goal to...
Man Drives Car Through Restaurant Patio in Minneapolis Suburb, Killing 2
Sep 4 2024 // ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. (AP) — A man drove his car through a restaurant patio where a group of medical workers were celebrating in a Minneapolis suburb on Sunday, killing two people and injuring at least four, police and...
Popular California Restauranteur Fined $71K for Failing to Pay Overtime
Jul 18 2024 // A popular Sonoma County chef denied three workers at its Healdsburg, California establishment of more than $35,000 in overtime wages, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Investigators in the department’s Wage...
Restaurant Workers’ Battle for Higher Minimum Wage Goes National
May 29 2024 // US restaurants grappling with high costs and penny-pinching consumers are making a tough pitch to voters: that boosting pay to millions of workers is a bad idea. At least four states are set to vote on measures to make...
Massachusetts Appeals Court Upholds Restaurants’ COVID-19 Insurance Denial
May 21 2024 // In a ruling against an upscale restaurant chain, a Massachusetts Appeals Court has followed the recipe the state’s high court set forth in 2022 in ruling that the COVID-19 virus does not trigger business interruption...
The Surprising Force Stalling Climate Progress: California Restaurants
May 15 2024 // In the fight to ratchet down climate emissions and soothe the most dangerous effects of an overheating planet, one of the most withering setbacks in recent memory wasn’t delivered by the oil industry or coal...
New Mexico Restaurant Settles Wage-Theft Complaint After Prolonged Legal Battle
May 2 2024 // New Mexico labor announced a legal settlement that resolves longstanding accusations of unpaid wages against a restaurant business in northwestern New Mexico. The Workforce Solutions Department said in a news release that...
California Labor Commissioner Reaches $2M Settlement with Restaurant
Apr 8 2024 // The California Labor Commissioner’s Office reached a $2 million settlement against Pearl B-Star Inc., DBA Lin’s Fusion for underpaying 32 workers. Pearl B-Star violated state labor laws governing recordkeeping,...
