Restaurant Snapshot

Under federal law, tip pooling rules come down to two questions: does the employer take a tip credit, and who is in the pool. If you pay tipped staff less than the full minimum wage and count their tips toward the rest, the pool can include only employees who customarily receive tips. If you pay everyone the full minimum wage in cash, the pool can also includ...

The first restaurant teaches you how to run a restaurant. It doesn’t teach you how to run two, and most owners learn that the hard way about four months after the second one opens.

The food isn’t usually the problem. Neither is the concept, since it already worked once. What catches people out is everything the first location quietly depends on, most of which turns out...

Much of what Americans believe about Chinese American food history is back to front. The fortune cookie came to America by way of Japan. Chop suey grew from a humble Cantonese mixture, not a banquet for a visiting statesman. General Tso’s chicken was created in Taiwan in the 1950s and made sweet in New York. And the MSG scare began with a single letter, not a...

Imagine a chef cooking a dish using local honey and having expectations about its taste, but he or she finds out that the taste is more potent and affects the taste of the dish. This is because the local honey has unique qualities in terms of taste, smell, and texture.

Moreover, it changes with seasons, which makes it difficult for restaurants to be consistent with ...

Products are incomplete without their packaging. Brands aim to develop a solution that is not only high in quality but also long-term. Whatever the option they choose, it’s incomplete without the packaging materials. Here in this blog, we’ll explore some of the sustainable material options and what they’re best for. So, let’s read on.