Labor
Another robot will take your order now. White Castle joins 7 other fast-food restaurants using AI at the drive-thru — see the full list.
Insider 8/6
White Castle is the latest fast-food chain replacing humans with voice bots in its drive-thru lanes.
San Jose flooring company owner sentenced for shorting workers $1 million in overtime wages
The Mercury News 8/7
SAN JOSE — The owner of a San Jose flooring company has been sentenced to four months in jail — and ordered to pay over $580,000 in restitution — after failing to pay his employees $1 million in overtime wages.
Food Industry Policy
Restaurant Chains Look Toward Expansion in Recovery From Pandemic
CoStar 8/7
Executives of major restaurant chains are hungry for location expansion as some get enough long-awaited relief from soaring food and supply costs to make up for still-elevated construction expenses.
‘This is absurd’: A Los Angeles restaurant adds 4% onto every bill to cover staff health insurance — here are 3 ways to cover your own rising health care costs
Yahoo! Finance 8/6
Chances are good you pay for your own health insurance coverage each month — but should you be covering the coverage of service workers too?
On the Side
The Biz Beat: San Jose restaurant unlocks beauty and depth of Venezuelan cuisine
San Jose Spotlight 8/6
Joanna Torres is on a mission to popularize Venezuelan food with her Willow Glen restaurant, Arepas. And if her recent catering job of serving 1,400 arepa sandwiches for Intuit is any indication, she is succeeding.
Dine Out Farmers Market Week kicks off
KRON4 8/6
(KRON) — The second annual Dine Out Farmers Market Week has kicked off in San Francisco.
