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Many restaurant owners believe that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) should be reformed or eliminated because the agency issues burdensome regulations. The Job Creation and Wage Enhancement Act, sponsored by Republicans, would require OSHA to conduct comprehensive risk and cost analysis before implementing any new regulations. Democrat Sen Edward Kennedy and former Rep William Ford propose expanding OSHA's coverage to government employees and streamlining standard-setting protocols., DEATH CAME TRAGICALLY EARLY for Orlando Colicchio, but at least it was swift. On Dec. 16, Colicchio, day manager of the Silver Bullet restaurant in New York City, was crushed [...]

With only about 16 months left until key elements of the sweeping federal health care reform kick in, restaurant operators are voicing their frustration with the government for leaving crucial [...]

National parks concessionaires are facing problems with service contracts, after the Senate voted to rewrite how such contracts are written and awarded. Concessionaires were viewed as making too much profit and contributing little to the government, so profit levels were cut. However, concessionaires argue that such cuts will result in fewer incentives for concessionaires to invest their efforts in such activities., 'I think the real loser will be the visitor, not Congress, and the concessionaire only a bit. But the people voting for laws like this very often fail to see [...]

Food safety issues are subject to political maneuvers, especially since different sectors of society want to voice their own concerns about the matter. The confusion created by such procedures sometimes results in tragic consequences which benefit neither the public nor the restaurateurs. Ambiguous aspects of food safety policies include state health code exemptions, health pernmit fees, lack of uniformity and the issuance of managerial certification. A debate also stems from how restaurant owners can balance food safety compliance with consumer preferences., CHRISTMAS IN DENVER WASN'T SO MERRY LAST YEAR: Sixty local citizens came down with Hepatitis A, apparently transmitted by an infected worker at a catering company. And it wasn't long [...]

The restaurant sector was worried about the impact of the first phase of Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) regarding the establishment of barrier-free access to public facilities for the benefit of those with walking, seeing or hearing problems. Restaurateurs, however, are starting to realize that the second phase of the ADA regarding employment discrimination, would create more legal and financial problems than the first phase., IT WAS FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN THAT created so much apprehension in the restaurant industry when the first, or 'accommodations,' phase of the Americans with Disabilities Act took effect in [...]

Artificial intelligence, robotics and other emerging technologies are beginning to change the way restaurant businesses operate--and the impact on the U.S. workforce isn't far off. The so-called technology-induced displacement of [...]

LAWENCE HYATT KNEW when it was time to give up. 'Maybe I'm a good enough poker player that I know when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em,' says [...]

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney signed a bill making his city the first in the nation to require local restaurants and other businesses to accept cash if a customer chooses that [...]

A recent proposal to require high-sodium foods to be appropriately labelled with language indicating the product contains a high concentration of sodium was criticized and opposed by both public health [...]

BUSH AND CLINTON FIGURE IT DOES, BUT A WARY RESTAURANT INDUSTRY ISN'T QUITE THAT SURE FORGET THE SOUND-BITE INSULTS, THE numbers that don't add up, and the promises that will [...]

Restaurateurs attending the Western Restaurant Show, running Aug 15-18, 1992, in San Francisco, CA, are facing many legislative proposals in their home states. There is a split-roll property tax initiative in Oregon, a Health Department inspection fee proposal in Idaho, teenager employment regulations in Washington and an American Medical Association-sponsored initiative on small business health insurance in California. Restaurateurs are concerned that state budget balancing problems will be resolved in the form of new taxes and fees on small business.

ATLANTA -- Restaurateurs are fighting city officials over proposed legislation that would require businesses here to make their establishments more eco-friendly and drive up costs significantly. The ordinance, which is [...]

Since President Barack Obama's calls earlier this year to improve the safety of the U.S. food supply, agency officials recently have issued several draft guidelines related to specific types of [...]

WASHINGTON -- While restaurant operators and association officials agree that the industry needs a uniform national nutrition-labeling standard to avoid a complex patchwork of state and local regulations, some chain [...]

WASHINGTON -- As the battle over immigration reform heats up, restaurant association officials say they are hopeful the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will proceed with its recent decision to [...]

NEW YORK -- One year after New York City officials began requiring that chain restaurants display calories on menus, operators and nutrition experts alike say the data's impact on ordering [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan agreement by three U.S. lawmakers that combines key elements of two existing Senate menu-labeling bills is drawing wide praise from inside and outside the [...]

Restaurateurs cautiously are supporting legislation set to snuff out smoking in two states that are strongholds of the tobacco industry, an indication of just how widespread anti-smoking sentiment has become. [...]

As menu-labeling legislation spreads from New York City to the Pacific Northwest and from the state of California to other parts of the United States, many restaurant companies are grappling [...]

You and the Law: ANY ESCAPE? Worker's comp claims got you down? Concerned about spiraling healthcare costs, or new business taxes aimed at refunding the nation's drained unemployment reserves? How [...]

BOSTON -- Health watchdogs urged an alliance of activists and public-health officials meeting here recently to push the envelope of the legal system even harder to address the obesity epidemic, [...]

NEW YORK -- Nearly nine out of 10 residents of this city favor its new menu-labeling mandate because they believe chain restaurants' calorie disclosures for all regularly offered food and [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WASHINGTON -- As credit card usage within the foodservice industry climbs, operators and foodservice association officials are hopeful that a measure introduced in Congress would give them the [...]

Congress Wants You...to pay and pay and pay 'It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for,' Will Rogers used to joke. Were he alive today, [...]

Los Angeles -- Proposals to overhaul California's health care system are among several swords of Damocles hanging over the heads of restaurant operators as they gather here this week for [...]

Consumer demand for restaurant brands is re-energizing a 69-year-old federal program that trains blind and visually impaired entrepreneurs to manage food-service operations that ring up hundreds of millions of dollars [...]

WASHINGTON -- Foodservice industry officials are cautiously optimistic that a seemingly comprehensive bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives could help jump-start the stalled federal legislative initiative on immigration [...]

Two little words--'in China'--deleted from a franchising law could make a big difference between profits or perils for American restaurant chains that have yet to open in the world's fastest-growing [...]

New York -- New York health department officials said actions taken by Wendy's International would not exempt the chain from a new law requiring that its restaurants here post calorie [...]

In early December, New York's Board of Health voted in favor of a ban on trans fats in all of the city's restaurants. It is the first large city in […]

The decision of the Sacramento County to conduct health inspections of restaurants to ensure food safety is discussed. Red, yellow and green color coded inspection passes will represent levels of compliance by restaurants.

Increases in the local minimum wage, foreign immigration to California and lawsuits over labor issues are hot-button business concerns among foodservice operators in the nation's most populous state and the [...]

NEW YORK -- On the heels of a scramble among major chains to revamp lease accounting procedures and restate earnings, a new lease-related regulatory directive in February left operators scurrying [...]

California restaurateurs have focused for nearly a year on defeating Proposition 72, a November ballot measure that aims to endorse a law that soon will require employers of 50 or [...]

The head of the training department and a regional training manager for a fast-food chain had been drinking when they slid into a car with the new area director, sandwiching [...]

A scorned woman may be the height of hellish fury, but restaurateurs can become nearly as hot and bothered if they believe elements of their business identities are being ripped [...]