Labor
Insights from the NRA Show: Starbird CEO Aaron Noveshen
QSR Magazine 5/24
This edition features Aaron Noveshen, founder of The Culinary Edge and CEO of fast casual Starbird.
Julie Su’s opponents downtown home in on Senate swing votes
Politico Influence 5/24
BUSINESS GROUPS MOBILIZE TO BLOCK LABOR NOMINEE: Trade associations representing a range of sectors across the business community are mobilizing to put the final nail in the coffin of Julie Su’s nomination to be U.S. labor chief.
Food Industry Policy
San Diego restaurant operators indicted in alleged PPP loan fraud
Restaurant Business 5/24
The owners of several restaurants in San Diego have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of wire fraud and money laundering in connection with an alleged scheme to scam funding from the Covid-related Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP.
The Fight Over Taco Tuesday Is Backfiring
The Takeout 5/24
The monster who wields the Taco Tuesday trademark is only continuing to feed off the attacks against it, reports Nation’s Restaurant News. In a plot twist we would not have guessed, Taco Bell’s efforts to strip Wyoming-based Taco John’s of its Taco Tuesday trademark have actually resulted in bigger success for the home of the Potato Olés.
On the Side
Chris Jarosz, owner of multiple Sacramento-area restaurants, identified in deadly Highway 50 crash
KCRA3 6/25
SACRAMENTO, Calif. Sacramento County officials identified a man who died in a Highway 50 crash Wednesday morning as 55-year-old Chris Jarosz, a well-known restaurant owner in the area.
Cooking up automation: 4 labor-saving tech solutions at the NRA Show
Restaurant Dive 5/23
CHICAGO — The restaurant industry needs 500,000 more workers by the end of the year to ease a chronic undersupply of labor, National Restaurant Association CEO Michelle Korsmo said during the keynote event at the NRA Show on Sunday.
