Why Banning Tips Can Be a Risky Strategy for Restaurants

Getting rid of tipping can be bad for business. There’s a growing movement among restaurants to forbid tipping and instead raise wages so that earnings get spread more evenly among workers, among other reasons. But that policy may make the restaurants less appealing to customers, according to new …

Last summer, she likewise put her foot down when her older daughter wanted to pursue a restaurant job. … Teens make up 18% of restaurant workers and have been involved in dozens of sexual-harassment suits filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity …. —Jim Oberman contributed to this article.

Staying in a lovely hotel is complicated emotionally. It’s wonderful while you’re there, but time quickly passes and before you know it you’re back at home, noticing the imperfections of your own surroundings. An increasing number of people are getting round this feeling by making their homes more like …

On Sept. 5, 2017, 100,000 young Americans got dressed, brushed their teeth and headed to local restaurants where they work as servers, chefs, managers and operators. It should have been like any other day. But on that day, the Trump administration announced an end date for the Deferred Action for …

WEST ORANGE, NJ – Things are heating up in the West Orange retail, restaurant and school scene this spring as numerous new projects around town move forward and stores on Main Street open their doors or expand their offerings. “With the opening of the Edison Battery Factory building in the coming …

Bertucci’s Corp., the Massachusetts-based pizza chain, has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and plans to sell its business in a deal valued at roughly $20 million. The company said Monday that an affiliate of Chicago-based investment firm Right Lane Capital LLC has agreed to purchase the …

With technology evolving on multiple fronts in today’s foodservice industry, restaurant operators are facing more pressure than ever to improve their business operations. The good news, however, is that making tech improvements can help restaurants thrive, said Robert Grimes, International Food …

The culinary thread running from Greenland to Copenhagen and thence to Hokkaido and the rest of Japan may not be immediately obvious. But those are some of the key points on the line of inspiration behind a new restaurant that will open in Tokyo in late June. Called Inua — from the Inuit term for the life …