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Post-Pandemic Insurance Liability Considerations All Restaurant Owners Should Be Aware Of

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Many restaurants turned to their insurance policies to provide protection for revenue reimbursement, (i.e., insurance proceeds for loss of revenue), but found the majority of insurance policies, unfortunately, did not / do not provide the coverage they anticipated. How Insurance Policies React.

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Restaurant Hiring: Navigating the Labor Shortage

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Unemployment benefits—augmented by federal government support—are providing security that restaurants have not been able to over the past year. As we start to welcome back workers, doing things as they were before isn't going to work—especially in hiring. That all begins at the hiring level. Writing a good job description.

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Pandemic Reflections: What Lessons Has the Restaurant Industry Learned?, Part Two

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– Peter Kellis, CEO of TRAY Since the pandemic, it has been complicated managing through government issues, supply chain issues, manufacturing shortages of restaurant equipment and, of course, hardest of all the loss of great staff and managers who were forced to leave the hospitality industry.

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Safety Training and a Strong Safety Culture: The Recipe for Mitigating Restaurant Risk

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Safety training and creating a culture of safety are both critical for mitigating these risks, helping restaurants establish environments that protect staff and customers, which also goes a long way toward keeping insurance premiums low and protecting the bottom line.

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

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If you’re fortunate enough not to have been on the receiving end of a civil or administrative complaint from an employee or a government employment agency, you may not realize just how deep the downside risk can be in employment disputes or just how high the stakes are for non-compliance.

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Emerging Trends in Restaurant Benefits

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This is a blend of medical inflation (the year over year cost of an x-ray), utilization (the number of x-rays that are performed), and government cost shifting (mandated benefits and restricted reimbursement by Medicaid and Medicare). In 2021, smaller plans that are often fully insured (fewer than 500 participants) saw a 9.6-percent

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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.