Labor
How to Address Today’s Severe Restaurant Staffing Challenge
QSR Magazine 7/1
Unable to reimplement pre-COVID-19 operating hours, restaurants must rethink, retool, and revitalize how to attract and retain employees.
Labor Advocates Use West Coast Heat To Press For More Say On Fast-Food Pay
Restaurant Business 6/29
The bill, called the Fast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery Act, would establish an 11-person Fast Food Sector Council to set and review workplace standards in the state’s quick-service market.
Food Industry Policy
East Bay diners may remain unmasked, for now
Berkeleyside 6/30
If recent headlines have you wondering if you’ll need to tighten your mask protocols when dining indoors, the answer (for now) is no.
Los Angeles Wants All Restaurant Customers And Staffs To Mask Up Again
Restaurant Business 6/29
Authorities say they’re trying to tamp down the spread of the Delta coronavirus before it morphs into a vaccine-resistant form.
On the Side
Is Food Inflation Real?
AG Web 6/30
Food prices for consumers are higher. Wholesale costs for restaurants are higher. Is inflation a real or transitory issue for agriculture and food?
Expanding To-Go Beverage Service Permanently: What to Know
FSR Magazine 6/29
After COVID-19 changed the world, stay at home orders and safety precautions decimated the restaurant industry. Governors across almost all 50 states, including Florida, issued emergency executive orders changing the status-quo of the treatment of “to-go beverages.”
