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An analysis of federal and state databases sheds new light on the prevalence and scale of wage theft in New York #restaurants and other industries, placing the total wages stolen in one five-year period at more than $203 million.
Restaurants in America are in crisis because they can't hire and retain qualified workers. To stave off oblivion, restaurateurs are exploring options like replacing tipping with mandatory service fees, reducing waitstaff in favor of counter ordering, and dynamic pricing, where you pay more or less according to demand. Business Insider's food reporter Corey Mintz delves into the issues, concluding: "The fundamental problem is that restaurants have long mistreated their workers. So when many veteran employees had a chance to get out of the industry during the pandemic, they did." Which of these solutions would you be prepared to swallow?
Dear #OpenStreetMap, #android, and #vegetarian folks, do you have an app to find vegetarian and #vegan#restaurants?
I used to have OpenMultiMaps that gave me access to OpenVegeMap but the project was discontinued and now I have to use #HappyCow and #VegoResto and I really don't like them...
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: ideally I'd like to discriminate vegan-only/vegan-friendly tags
I was chatting with folks at my gym today about restaurants, when I said it was a shame there weren’t any Indigenous restaurants in the city. Someone looked all confused and said, “what food would they have?” I said, “most of the food in a thanksgiving dinner comes from Indigenous cuisine.” She said, “even the marshmallow salad?” Well, maybe not that. That seems pretty darned white to me. Haha! But seriously, Indigenous cuisine includes beans, cranberries, potatoes, mushrooms, strawberries, pumpkin, tomatoes, wild rice, corn, quinoa, maple syrup, venison, bison, game birds, fish, mattaq, and the delicious (but not very good for you) NDN taco. If you live on stolen Indigenous lands and there are no Indigenous restaurants where you live, maybe consider why that is. #Indigedon#Indigenous#IndigenousFoodSovereignty#Food#Restaurants#Colonization
Liebe #vegane Leuts & #Allies, wenn ihr zusammen #essen geht, bitte geht in vegane #Restaurants. Bei Gruppen von veganen + nichtveganen Leuten geht's meist in "Gemischtwarenläden", weshalb vegane Läden weniger Zuspruch haben. Sie sind aber — neben ihrem ethischen Beitrag — eine der wenigen Zufluchtsorte für die veganen Freundys, wo sie einmal nicht mit all dem #Tierleid konfrontiert werden.
Derzeit gehen viele vegane Läden kaputt.
Bitte helft diese Orte zu erhalten.🙏
Teilen erwünscht. #fedihelp
Attention, U.S.-based folk who are looking for restaurant reviews and other food news that is relevant to where they live! @Eater has federated all of its local Magazines. Here's how to discover all their stories.
Dwell's Alice Wolfe is fed up with the prevailing aesthetic of coffee shops: sterile, minimalist, and intentionally less welcoming. She writes with nostalgia about the homey feel of early '90s and 2000s cafes that were built for socializing, open after 6 p.m., and designed to encourage patrons to stay a while.
Do you still like to spend time in cafes? Tell us in the comments what type of places people just... hang out in these days.
OpenTable says it won't allow anonymous reviews anymore. In an email to those who've previously posted comments, the reservations platform said the goal of including first names and photos on all reviews was to "give you even greater confidence in the reviews — and when booking a new restaurant.” Initial reports said that old reviews would be retroactively updated, but after a user backlash, these will remain anonymous. Here's more from Bleeping Computer. What do you think of the plan to remove anonymity from reviews?
Heat exchangers are very exciting. This article looks at a swedish company who install a heat exchanger in a restaurant which captures the waste heat from cooking and uses it to drop their heating bills by 90% a year and its carbon footprint by 30 tonnes!
What is it with #restaurants putting a tiny thimbleful of tartare sauce on your plate with the #fish n chips like it’s some kind of exceptionally precious commodity? Give me a bloody bottle of the stuff on the table and stop being such cheapskates! Less is not more. I want enough to put on every one of my #chips! And on the fish too! Is that so hard to understand?
North Korean nationals continue to run a restaurant in Laos to earn income for the Pyongyang regime, a new U.N. report shows, despite international sanctions that ban such activity....
One of two #Ottawa#restaurants that have been fighting to continue selling takeout beer and wine has announced it's closing its doors, saying it was "unfairly targeted" by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of #Ontario (#AGCO).
Mercato Zacconi includes a full-service dining area with a wood-fired pizza oven in a market that sells fresh produce, grocery items and prepared foods. Until recently, its shelves were also stocked with beer and wine.
"The lawmakers — Nguyen and Reps. Hoa Nguyen, Hai Pham, Khanh Pham and Thuy Tran — who are all Democrats, wrote that the code, as it stands, is discriminatory and unfair, particularly to more vulnerable communities.
'We believe that, as currently written and enforced, the city’s odor code is discriminatory and not objective by any known standards, leaving out certain, minority-owned small businesses,' the lawmakers wrote."
Tipping culture in North America is getting more complex — you're asked to tip in new situations, give a higher percentage, and use new technologies too. @TheConversationUS is sharing this guide to etiquette. What are your feelings on tipping these days?
America's dining scene has been overtaken by chains — not just Chipotle, Chili's and Starbucks but local restaurants that open up multiple spin-offs in cities, neighborhoods and even streets. Is all this flattening and homogenizing the dining experience? Or are there upsides too? @Eater has built this @Flipboard Storyboard exploring the issue from all angles. Tell us in the comments what you think.
It used to be common wisdom in Japan's restaurant industry that you couldn't sell ramen for over 1000 yen a bowl. That's changing quickly. Learn why more shops are emphasizing quality over quantity in our latest.
North Koreans still running restaurant in Laos to earn cash for regime: UN report (www.nknews.org)
North Korean nationals continue to run a restaurant in Laos to earn income for the Pyongyang regime, a new U.N. report shows, despite international sanctions that ban such activity....
North End restaurant (Monica’s Trattoria) owner wanted for Hanover Street shooting (www.boston.com)
No one was hurt, but a bullet went through the front window of Modern Pastry. The shooting is reportedly tied to an ongoing feud.