Department of Justice Makes Millions More Restaurant Workers Eligible For Overtime Pay
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Up to now, US employers have only been required to issue overtime pay to employees who make less than $35,568 a year. But as of July 1, that salary cap bumps to $43,888 a year for certain executive, administrative and professional employees, according to the US Labor Department. At the start of next year, the cap rises to $58,656 and automatically increases every three years in pace with inflation. This new threshold is the largest federal expansion of overtime pay in decades, making millions more restaurant workers eligible to increase their wages. Of course, the National Restaurant Association opposes the rule, as restaurateurs are already burdened with rising food costs and labor challenges. But paying employees for overtime hours is simply the right thing to do, isn't it?
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São Paulo's Janaína Torres Named World's Best Female Chef 2024
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"The World's 50 Best" organization ranks Brazil's A Casa do Porco the world's #12 restaurant, and recently named its chef, Janaína Torres, the World's Best Female Chef for 2024. Torres' temple of pork features wood-fired slow-roasted whole pig, artisan sausages, and other odes to porcine passion. The chef opened her first restaurant, O Bar da Dona Onça, in 2008, and now also runs Hot Pork (an organic hotdog kiosk), Sorveteria do Centro ice cream shop, and the Merenda da Cidade canteen, all in downtown São Paulo where she grew up. This award is voted on by 1,080 independent restaurant industry experts worldwide and will help Torres continue her work widening the culinary table as an advocate for dining accessibility, social inclusivity, and food education. Congrats Chef!
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The Restaurant Empire Strikes Back
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You have opinions about restaurants? Chefs have opinions about you too. Dozens of restaurant chef-owners (some high-profile) spill the beans with Yelp-style digs and straight talk about entitled customers, high food costs, long hours, and hard labor. Most chefs hate the practice of tipping and think culinary school is a waste of money. Is the customer always right? No. Are restaurants improving their track record on work-life balance, respect in the workplace, and fair pay? Yes.
Wine Worth $1.6 Million Stolen From La Tour d'Argent In Paris
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During a routine inventory check, a sommelier at La Tour d'Argent in Paris found 83 bottles of rare wine missing. The 442-year-old restaurant is among the most famous in France and inspired the fictional restaurant in the animated Disney film Ratatouille. The missing bottles are a fraction of La Tour d'Argent's 300,000-bottle collection, but they are worth about $1.6 million and include Bordeaux from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, one of the world's most expensive wines. The restaurant was closed for renovations from spring 2022 to fall 2023, but Parisian police say the theft could have taken place anytime between 2020 and 2024. Bottles coming soon to a wine auction near you.
McDonald's Opens CosMc’s, A New Drive-Thru Restaurant
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McDonald's is hoping to capture some Starbucks magic. Its new spinoff restaurant, CosMc's, is a drive-thru-only cafe featuring customizable sweet coffee and tea drinks, sodas, slushies, and soft serve ice cream, as well as cookies, snacks, and a few egg sandwiches. Berry Hibiscus Sour-Ade, Turmeric Spiced Latte, or Popping Pear Slush, anyone? Want dragonfruit with that? How about pretzel bites with hot mustard or ranch dip on the side? Full menu here. The first CosMc's location opened in December in the Chicago suburbs and plans are afoot to open nine more locations in Texas later this year. What's with the name? CosMc was a robot-surfer-alien character that Mickey D's introduced back in the 1980s. In the space age of the 2020s, what's old is new again.
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