A new report from One Fair Wage outlines the unsafe and unfair treatment of tipped service workers during the pandemic, and as is unfortunately expected, the current state of affairs is bleak as hell. The survey of 1,675 tipped service workers in New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and …

As COVID-19 infections surge throughout the country again — with the virus causing nearly 1,500 daily deaths on average — the restaurant industry is preparing for further shutdowns, job losses, and permanent closures. Los Angeles has ended all restaurant dining except for takeout and delivery. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo …

A lawsuit alleges managers at a Waterloo, Iowa plant ignored safety concerns, while holding a betting pool on how many workers would get sick According to a truly stomach-churning report by the Iowa Capital Dispatch on a wrongful death lawsuit against Tyson Foods, managers at a pork processing plant in …

Mike Isabella decamped from D.C. to Florida a year ago, but the fallout from a 2018 sexual harassment scandal and the business failures that followed continues to shadow the one-time celebrity chef years after his prolific D.C. restaurant group crumbled. Three former employees at Requin, the contemporary French restaurant on …

Congressional Democrats remain at odds with the White House over the next trillion-dollar stimulus, while the Republican-controlled Senate, necessary to pass any deal, adjourned until November 9 after ramming through a Supreme Court nominee. Translation: Any sort of fiscal relief won’t reach taxpayers until later this fall in a best-case …