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Mastering Worker Classification: Seven Essential Tips for Restaurant Owners

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Benefits and Protections Full-time employees are often entitled to benefits such as health insurance, paid leave and retirement plans, whereas part-time and temporary employees may not be. Independent contractors usually have greater flexibility, provide their own tools, and are often hired for specific projects or short-term engagements.

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Restaurant Safety: How Restaurateurs Can Improve their Risk Profiles

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These issues have translated to the industry’s insurers as well – causing even more headaches for restaurant owners. The restaurant insurance market has seen rising costs to insure and as a result, carriers have come and gone from the market.

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Nine Critical HR and Payroll Steps to Prepare Your Restaurant for 2025

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Simplify Health Insurance Open Enrollment Health insurance is one of the most valuable benefits you offer, so make open enrollment a central, streamlined year-end activity. Bonus Tip : Create a simple FAQ document to address common employee questions about coverage options.

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Four Questions to Ask When Evaluating Third-Party Delivery Services

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The food is then delivered by drivers hired by the service. In that case, there may not be any insurance outside the driver’s personal auto insurance. If you’re contracting with a third-party delivery service, let your insurance agent know. Ask how the service screens its potential drivers.

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The Employment Landscape is Messy: How Restaurants Can Ensure Compliance with Limited Resources

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Often the upsell from franchisors and service providers includes seemingly convenient, useful, and “free” extras like employee handbooks, wage and hour policies, and employment forms, but these one-size-fits-all documents are often tailored to federal law and don’t account for changes in California law.

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Everything Restaurants Have Ever Wanted to Know About the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)

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Will the loan be forgivable if the proceeds are used to pay franchise fees, property taxes, or insurance? Instead, as long as you maintain your overall employee count and total payroll costs, you can continue to make business decisions with respect to hiring and firing employees. For what purposes can a restaurant use the PPP funds?

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Damage Control: How Recent Changes to the FLSA and NLRA May Affect Your Status as a Joint Employer

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Whether one acts “ directly or indirectly ” can be determined by a four factor balancing test – the main change to the FLSA implemented by the USDL – which relate to the control of one over the employer’s employee by the Benefited Party: Hiring/firing employee. Maintaining employee’s employment records.