Labor
More than half of U.S. states will raise their minimum wage in 2022, but employers are hiking pay faster
CNBC 12/29
California’s largest businesses will be required to pay workers a minimum of $15 an hour in January.
C.D.C. Faces Pressure to Change Isolation Guidelines for Sick Workers
New York Times 12/28
Barbara Sibley’s four New York restaurants had already weathered the city’s initial Covid-19 wave, the pre-vaccine surge last winter and this summer’s Delta spike when, last weekend, it finally happened: Fearing an outbreak and struggling with staffing after one of her workers got sick with COVID, she temporarily shut down one of her locations.
Food Industry Policy
As omicron surges, some Los Angeles restaurants, bars closing temporarily
ABC 7 News 12/29
LOS ANGELES (KABC) — With Los Angeles experiencing another COVID-19 surge, some restaurants and bars are halting indoor operations even though they don’t have to.
Restaurants, Bars Across California Prepare To Introduce More To-Go Options For New Liquor Law
California Globe 12/28
This week across California, restaurants and bars are hurrying to finish more permanent alcoholic beverage to-go for when Senate Bill 389 comes into effect on Saturday.
On the Side
Go-To Restaurants of 2021 in the San Francisco-Bay Area
Eater SF 12/28
I’m usually running around to try new places, but when I want real comfort food, I crave a crispy-edged WesBurger or a cozy meal at Mama Ji’s just over the hill from my house.
‘Profit Doesn’t Exist Anymore.’ Restaurants That Barely Survived COVID-19 Closures Now Face Labor, Inflation and Supply Chain Crises
Time 12/28
It’s easy to poke fun at terrible restaurants, like the one on Gordon Ramsay’s show Kitchen Nightmares that served a mayonnaise-and-cheese sushi pizza, or the Washington D.C. Popeyes that went viral after a video revealed the franchise was overrun with gargantuan rats.
