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Protecting Your Restaurant During the Pandemic When Employees Return from Vacation

Modern Restaurant Management

These seven tips can help ensure employees and guests are protected when employees return from vacation: Follow Official Guidance. If you amend your employee handbook or policies, be sure to inform employees, distribute the revised document(s), and have employees acknowledge the changes by requesting a signature receipt.

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New & Notable: TEAM Schostak Celebrates 40, AI in Food Service and Beachy Tech

Modern Restaurant Management

.” 7shifts Launches Tip Pooling. 7shifts launched a new solution designed to help operators and managers streamline the complicated and time-consuming tip tracking and distribution process. " Tip Pooling has been designed to offer three benefits to operators and managers: Create and customize tip pools with ease.

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Easter Eat-In, Potbelly Pantry and #ThePlateFund

Modern Restaurant Management

A vast majority of line cooks, wait staff, dishwashers, bartenders and other restaurant and food-service industry employees rely on every paycheck, as well as tips, to support themselves and their families. ThePlateFund will also provide electronic codes for restaurant owners to distribute directly to workers who are in the greatest need.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Tip Laws in California

7 Shifts

California has some of the strongest, most employee-friendly tip laws in the country. Section 351 gives the most information on gratuities or tips, stating that tips belong to employees, not employers (“declared to be the sole property of the employee or employees to whom it was paid, given, or left for”). Lisa Guerin, J.D.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Tip Laws in California

7 Shifts

California has some of the strongest, most employee-friendly tip laws in the country. Section 351 gives the most information on gratuities or tips, stating that tips belong to employees, not employers (“declared to be the sole property of the employee or employees to whom it was paid, given, or left for”). Lisa Guerin, J.D.

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A Decidedly Un-Rockwellian Thanksgiving

EATER

Last year, I wrote up some tips and tricks for people choosing to host a nontraditional Thanksgiving. Turkey just isn’t as succulent as chicken or duck, and what is the deal with the textural uniformity of casseroles, pumpkin pie, and stuffing?” Tip extra well here, too.). This year, to state the obvious, looks different.

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Breaking Down New York State Tips Laws for Restaurant Owners

7 Shifts

These New York-specific laws include mandatory service charges, tip credits, tip pooling, and the minimum wage. The basics of tip laws in New York New York agrees with federal law on the definition of a tip. Any money a customer leaves voluntarily above the ticket price (including tax) is a tip or gratuity.