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WASHINGTON -- Bipartisan backers of a bill introduced in the U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES say it could stem a wave of lawsuits against businesses by clarifying the Fair and Accurate [...]

NEW YORK -- New York City health officials have broadened the scope of their controversial menu-labeling plan to address the limitations that prompted a federal judge in September to block [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge here Monday extended for a maximum of 10 days a temporary restraining order blocking the Bush administration from implementing a plan under which the [...]

WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan bill introduced in the U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday could bring tax relief to many restaurants by reducing the depreciation schedule for new construction or improvements [...]

NEW YORK -- This city's DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE said 94 percent of local restaurants are complying with the first phase of a new trans-fat regulation, and nearly [...]

NEW YORK -- This city's DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE characterized as a temporary set-back Tuesday's federal court invalidation of the agency's controversial rule requiring on-menu disclosure of calorie [...]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION has doubled the fine for selling other species of fish misrepresented as grouper. The change comes as rising prices [...]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Over objections by the California Restaurant Association, the state SENATE on Thursday voted 22-17 to pass a bill that would force chains to post approximate calorie counts [...]

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Albany County, N.Y., and Montgomery County, Md., have followed the lead of New York City and Philadelphia by banning artificial trans fats from restaurants. The 37 Albany [...]

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.--Illinois would become the 19th state to ban smoking in restaurants if Gov. ROD BLAGOJEVICH signs a bill recently passed by both houses of the state Legislature. The law [...]

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Lawmakers in this state have yet to determine how much restaurateurs and other employers here might pay under newly approved paid-leave legislation that is widely expected to [...]

MINEOLA, N.Y. -- Following legal action taken in nearby New York City, Nassau County is reconsidering a ban of trans fats from restaurant kitchens and a mandate that operators post [...]

WASHINGTON -- In the wake of recurrent investor criticisms of purportedly excessive compensation for senior corporate officials, the U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES on Friday approved a bill that would require [...]

WASHINGTON -- Following recurrent investor criticisms of purportedly excessive compensation for senior corporate officials, the U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES is scheduled to vote today on a bill that would require [...]

PATERSON, N.J. -- Diners and quick-service restaurants here are girding for a new anti-crime regulation that will require eateries with fewer than 10 tables to close between 12:01 a.m. and [...]

WASHINGTON -- Congress is poised to increase the federal minimum wage, but legislatures in Kansas, Georgia, Virginia and Idaho have all recently rejected proposals to raise their states' minimum wages. [...]

WASHINGTON -- By a bipartisan 360-45 vote, the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES passed the Small Business Tax Relief Act of 2007 Friday, including $1.8 billion in small-business tax breaks over 10 [...]

PHILADELPHIA -- Mayor JOHN STREET is expected to make this city the second in the nation to regulate the trans-fat content of restaurant fare by signing into law the severe [...]

WASHINGTON -- The NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION has joined the NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHAIN RESTAURANTS and the AMERICAN HOSPITALITY & LODGING ASSOCIATION and other trade groups and businesses in condemning proposed [...]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- State Sen. CAROLE MIGDEN, D-San Francisco, has introduced legislation that would require chain restaurants across California to post the calorie content for each menu item. S.B. 180 [...]

LANSING, Mich. -- A bill in the Michigan Legislature would require the posting of a state-approved health warning about artificial trans fats in restaurants and on menus, and mandate an [...]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Two Florida lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require restaurants in the state to warn customers that their menus contain trans fats. Rep. JOE GIBBONS (D-Hallandale Beach) [...]

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. SENATE voted nearly unanimously Thursday to raise the minimum wage to $7.25 per hour in three phases over a 26-month stretch, but sought to temper the [...]

LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles chapter of the CALIFORNIA RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION reportedly has agreed to a voluntary phase-out of artificial trans fats by local restaurants within 18 months. The [...]

RICHMOND, Va. -- A bill proposed in Virginia's House of Delegates would require restaurants that allow smoking to post signs at entrances disclosing the policy, but would permit them to [...]

PONTIAC, Mich. -- A lawmaker here has proposed that Oakland County, an affluent suburban area outside of Detroit that has a population of 1.2 million, follow the lead of New [...]

CINCINNATI, Ohio -- PENN STATION EAST COAST SUBS, a Philadelphia-inspired sandwich chain based here, inked franchise deals for seven stores in western Illinois, just east of St. Louis, Mo. Franchisees [...]

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Just two days after a lawmaker in neighboring Massachusetts introduced a measure seeking to ban artificial trans fats in restaurants across the state, two senators here proposed [...]

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- The E. coli outbreak involving TACO JOHN'S units here and in Minnesota has been linked to lettuce, according to local press reports. The findings mark the [...]

NEW YORK -- An amendment that could allow more time for this city's 20,000 restaurants to replace partially hydrogenated oils could be formalized when the DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL [...]

NEW YORK -- MCDONALD'S CORP. chief executive JIM SKINNER told investors here Wednesday that the chain would be prepared to comply with New York City's expected enforcement by next July [...]

NEW YORK -- The city's health department has proposed changing the health code to ban most artificial trans fats in all restaurants and requiring quick-service operations that already offer calorie [...]

WASHINGTON -- PERSHING SQUARE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LP received antitrust clearance Wednesday from the Federal Trade Commission for Pershing's three funds to buy more than $793.8 million, or about 1.6 percent, [...]

CHICAGO -- The ILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION brought two expert witnesses before the City Council's Committee on License and Consumer Protection to testify against its proposal to require restaurant companies with [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Extending health insurance coverage will be a top priority of GOV. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER in 2007 and an issue to be watched closely by the CALIFORNIA RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION, [...]

WASHINGTON -- DARDEN RESTAURANTS INC., in a filing here with securities regulators, said the FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION had notified it last Wednesday that the company was violating a law prohibiting [...]

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES passed a bill Friday on a bipartisan 230-180 vote that would raise the federal minimum wage 41 percent--from $5.15 to $7.25 an hour--over [...]

CHICAGO -- City Council leaders here have threatened such chains as MCDONALD'S and STARBUCKS COFFEE with possible nonrenewal of business licenses for O'Hare and Midway airport outlets unless they agree [...]

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to extend indefinitely a suspension of the estate tax, a levy on business holdings and properties left to heirs. Dubbed the [...]

WASHINGTON -- Sen. TOM HARKIN of Iowa introduced a bill June 8 that would require chain restaurants and contractors offering vending services to post full nutritional profiles of the foods [...]

WASHINGTON -- An advisory council set up by the U.S. SECURITIES & EXCHANGE COMMISSION in late 2004 is expected to propose next week that smaller public companies be exempted from [...]

ATLANTA -- Georgia GOV. SONNY PURDUE has signed into law a statute that levies toughened penalties on restaurateurs and other employers who hire illegal aliens. The measure also requires operators [...]

SACRAMENTO, Calif.--State health regulators, citing their inability to review within a one-year limit 'voluminous' public comments about plans to require that manufacturers and restaurants post warnings about the chemical acrylamide [...]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California restaurateurs and other employers would see the state's minimum wage rise from $6.75 to $7.75 per hour during the next 15 to 27 months under four [...]

WASHINGTON -- The RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON said it had succeeded in keeping an initiative off the November ballot that if passed would have prohibited smoking in all restaurants [...]

DENVER -- GOV. BILL OWENS signed a bill into law Monday that will prevent people from suing restaurants or other food purveyors in Colorado for obesity or weight gain problems. [...]

ORTLAND, Ore. -- Contending that a new regulation unfairly requires restaurateurs to act as neighborhood police or risk reduced business hours, two operators here are suing the city to get [...]

MINNEAPOLIS -- City Council member GARY SCHIFF said he plans to introduce a bill Friday that would ban smoking in bars and restaurants in Minneapolis, according to published reports. Lawmakers [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The OHIO SENATE, on a 20-12 vote, approved a bill to grant civil immunity from liability to restaurants and food companies for allegedly causing obesity and related [...]

WASHINGTON -- Restaurant industry representatives welcomed the U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR's formal issuance Tuesday of revisions to federal overtime regulations, which will go into effect in August. The DOL had [...]