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Byline: Hamza Shaban The nation's largest burger chain has backed away from a lobbying campaign to fend off minimum-wage increases, a decision being hailed as a significant victory by workers [...]

McDonald's Corp. is mobilizing its U.S. restaurant owners to fight a measure in Congress supported by President-elect Barack Obama that would make it easier for workers to unionize. In a [...]

Feb. 19--RICHMOND -- A House of Delegates committee endorsed legislation Monday that would allow concealed handguns in establishments that serve alcohol, but punish gun-carrying patrons who get caught drinking. Senate [...]

Feb. 16--RICHMOND -- A Senate committee voted Thursday to approve a bill that stops short of requiring restaurants to ban smoking but is intended to put economic pressure on them [...]

CHICAGO -- Mayor RICHARD DALEY has voiced support for a proposed repeal of the city's controversial ban on the sale of foie gras. Two alderman introduced the repeal plan, and [...]

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 [...]

WASHINGTON -- The NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION lauded President Bush for his proposed immigration reforms, saying they are necessary to stabilize the nation's workforce. 'Our country's immigration policies should reflect that [...]

CHICAGO -- An Illinois state lawmaker said he is planning to introduce in January legislation banning obesity-related lawsuits. REP. JOHN FRITCHEY of Chicago said restaurants are a key part of [...]

WASHINGTON -- A week after steakhouse chain leaders asked Agriculture Secretary ANN VENEMAN to lift the ban on cattle from Canada to ease price-inflating demand for U.S. beef, the federal [...]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California lawmakers have passed a bill requiring restaurateurs and other employers with 50 or more workers to pay at least 80 percent of the cost of health [...]

WASHINGTON -- An attempt to stop the DEPARTMENT OF LABOR from considering changes to its overtime regulations was narrowly defeated in Congress Thursday. The House voted 213-210 to kill an [...]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A proposed California law requiring quick-service and full-service chain restaurants to provide consumers with nutrition profiles for all menu items died in a legislative committee. The California [...]

Several restaurant chains, including McDonald's Corp., are lobbying New York City Council member Peter F. Vallone Jr. because he plans to introduce a measure to regulate trans fats that is presumably less stringent than the one currently under consideration.

WASHINGTON -- The NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION and other business groups claimed victory in persuading the U.S. SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION not to alter its 'small business' definition, a move the NRA [...]

WASHINGTON -- The NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION praised the U.S. House of Representatives' passage of a bill that would enable foodservice operators to accelerate depreciation on building improvements from the current [...]

LANSING, Mich. -- The MICHIGAN RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION officially has thanked state Senate Majority Leader KEN SIKKEMA for leading an effort that resulted in defeating a proposed liquor tax increase that [...]

CHICAGO -- Approximately 100 members of the ILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION who own businesses in the city rallied against two proposed restaurant and bar smoking bans at a City Council Health [...]

CHICAGO -- Citing a poll of 500 Chicagoans indicating that 71 percent support a ban on smoking in restaurants, a coalition of 20 health and community groups on Thursday began [...]