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Our Wage Models are Broken

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It’s no secret that with a workforce mass exodus and rising minimum wages, the restaurant industry is long overdue for an overhaul of its business structure and compensation model. Our coalition of restaurant owners across the country come together to share best practices about wages and benefits. Rethinking Wages: Where to Start?

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Best Practices for Handling a Data Breach

Modern Restaurant Management

What can restaurant operators learn from this experience? What makes restaurant chain breaches unique compared to other industries? Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine reached out to Matt Green , partner and Deputy Chair of Obermayer’s Litigation Department, for insights on this topic. Are there any similar cases?

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Mental Health Month and The State of Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

May is Mental Health Month – and it’s clear that millions of restaurant workers need help. Despite a clinical difference, the law makes no distinction between the two so long as your mental health or illness can be considered a serious condition. Department of Labor, FMLA can be used for mental health or mental illness.

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Why Your Restaurant Needs Marketing and PR Now More Than Ever

Modern Restaurant Management

When people are being urged to stay home except for essentials like food, healthcare, medications, and fuel, heading to a favorite restaurant for a sit-down meal is unlikely, and sometimes, impossible. Keeping a restaurant in business, let alone the top of mind during this crisis requires getting innovative.

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The State of New York Restaurants in 2020

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Never before has our local market experienced such a massive disruption to the restaurant industry as we are experiencing with the Coronavirus pandemic. Every restaurant has been forced to adapt their operations in order to survive and ultimately grow for the future. What support is available for New York restaurants 1.

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Why Restaurant Benefit Structures Are Unique

Modern Restaurant Management

Please send questions to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. The logic with high deductible plans and consumer-driven strategies in healthcare used to be that participants would be more judicious in spending their dollar for medical services.

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CIVILITY LOST

Culinary Cues

How many restaurants suffer from employees not showing up to work, failing to step in the kitchen ready to work, failing to respect the standards of excellence that a restaurant is basing its reputation on, or failing to do a job to the best of their ability? Is this still the case? Yet, this is where we are.

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