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Working Lunch

Working Lunch is a podcast from Align Public Strategies devoted to explaining the so what and now what about key issues impacting the restaurant and retail industries.

Workforce

A regulatory change promises to make the unionization of restaurants even easier

 By Peter Romeo on May 29, 2024

Working Lunch: The new process is already being used against single-unit operations.

Workforce

Organized labor blasts fast-food chains for employing inmates

 By Peter Romeo on May 23, 2024

Working Lunch: Unions say they want the practice stopped. But their real aim is to alienate the Black community.

Workforce

Labor is testing whether California's new fast-food wage-setting process would work elsewhere

By Peter Romeo on May 13, 2024

Working Lunch: Minneapolis is essentially testing the portability of the controversial Golden State model.

Financing

The odds for keeping delivery fees and large-party gratuities aren't looking good

By Peter Romeo on May 01, 2024

Working Lunch: The Biden administration doesn't get that those aren't true "junk fees."

Workforce

Restaurants are already bracing for a wave of wage-related ballot measures in November

By Peter Romeo on Apr. 15, 2024

Working Lunch: The trend promises to cost employers plenty of money and sweat if they hope to prevail.

Operations

Why restaurants should take advantage of a portable benefits program

By Restaurant Business Staff on Apr. 08, 2024

Working Lunch: The podcast from Align Public Strategies features a discussion of a portable benefits pilot program as well as the media uproar over California’s $20 fast food wage.

Financing

Restaurants have good reasons for not turning cartwheels over the credit-card deal

By Peter Romeo on Mar. 29, 2024

Working Lunch: The offer from MasterCard and Visa doesn't look so good when you dive into the details.

Operations

The restaurant service fee situation is getting dicey

By Restaurant Business Staff on Mar. 18, 2024

Working Lunch: Add-on charges are now under scrutiny at both the federal and state levels and could be in danger of drawing even more unwanted attention.

Operations

SEC drops its plan to require field-to-fork environmental reporting

By Peter Romeo on Mar. 11, 2024

Working Lunch: The agency realized the mandate was too unwieldy and extensive.

Workforce

Countdown to California's new fast-food wage is triggering some strangeness

By Peter Romeo on Mar. 04, 2024

Working Lunch: Why the sudden controversy over some provisions, and the backtracking by the new law's sponsor?

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