Overlawyered » restaurants http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:11:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Employment law roundup http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/employment-law-roundup-3/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/employment-law-roundup-3/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:12:54 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27399
  • Fueled by liberal foundation grants and federal money, “Restaurant Opportunities Center” launches litigation campaign against chain-eatery leader Darden [Orlando Sentinel] Still to be explained: why the Detroit Chamber of Commerce would be so happy to announce a business-backed non-profit’s funding for ROC.
  • Major employment plaintiff’s firm Outten & Golden promotes Hearst magazine intern class action [Romenesko, Reason]
  • “Retaliation Charges Pose Growing Threat to Free Speech” [Hans Bader, CEI]
  • Debate: “Should state outlaw requirements that job applicants be employed?” [Pia Lopez/Ben Boychuk, Sacramento Bee]
  • “Is it time to do away with McDonnell Douglas?” [burden-shifting test in job bias cases; Jon Hyman]
  • Supposed exemption from OSHA for under-10-employee businesses is mostly myth [Eric Conn, EBG]
  • WSJ is kind enough to pick up my item on Italian labor law professors as a “Notable and Quotable” today;
  • New York Times fires 23 employees after searching their emails and finding that they had forwarded blonde and ethnic jokes and other common forms of workplace humor [eleven years ago on Overlawyered]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/employment-law-roundup-3/feed/ 1     NYC diner owner decides to record food inspection on cellphone http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/nyc-diner-owner-decides-to-record-food-inspection-on-cellphone/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/nyc-diner-owner-decides-to-record-food-inspection-on-cellphone/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:54:22 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=26875 And soon finds cause for regret [NY Post via Radley Balko, to whom congratulations are in order; related]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/nyc-diner-owner-decides-to-record-food-inspection-on-cellphone/feed/ 1     “Chick-fil-A Is Worried You Can’t Tell Kale From ‘Chikin’” http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/chick-fil-a-is-worried-you-cant-tell-kale-from-chikin/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/chick-fil-a-is-worried-you-cant-tell-kale-from-chikin/#comments Sat, 03 Dec 2011 05:37:08 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=26043 The slogan “Eat More Kale” gets a Vermont t-shirt silk-screener in trouble with the fast-food chain. [Gothamist]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/chick-fil-a-is-worried-you-cant-tell-kale-from-chikin/feed/ 3     “The 6 Most Poorly Thought Out Attempts At Insurance Fraud” http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/the-6-most-poorly-thought-out-attempts-at-insurance-fraud/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/the-6-most-poorly-thought-out-attempts-at-insurance-fraud/#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2011 05:08:13 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25613 Cracked has a selection that includes disgraced Pennsylvania judge Michael Joyce (on whom), the pro wrestler on disability, a church with leaders who “have had so many X-rays that I wouldn’t be surprised if they glowed in the dark,” and — eeeeuw! — a couple of deliberately glass-eating restaurant-goers.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/the-6-most-poorly-thought-out-attempts-at-insurance-fraud/feed/ 2     Bastianich: I’m through with NYC due to wage/hour suits http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/bastianich-im-through-with-nyc-due-to-wagehour-suits/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/bastianich-im-through-with-nyc-due-to-wagehour-suits/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:04:00 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25144 Entrepreneurial lawyers have filed numerous suits against New York City restaurants over alleged violations of tip-splitting and overtime rules, a trend helped along by wage rulings from the state Labor Department. Now one of the town’s best-known restaurateurs says he’s had enough, per the New York Post:

    “Money-hungry lawyers, through frivolous lawsuits, are shaking down the very foundation of Manhattan’s restaurant industry,” fumed Joe Bastianich, co-owner of Eataly, Del Posto and Babbo.

    Bastianich said the litigation — he has been sued twice — has left such a bitter taste that he’s done with setting up new ventures in New York.

    “We opened Eataly and put 700 jobs in the New York economy. Since then we haven’t opened another restaurant in New York, nor will we,” Bastianich told The Post. “We opened three other restaurants, in California and Connecticut, worth 1,000 jobs that could have been here in New York. Someone in Albany needs to understand the agenda, what this is really costing the greatest restaurant city in the world.”

    Earlier here, etc.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/bastianich-im-through-with-nyc-due-to-wagehour-suits/feed/ 12     Food law roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/food-law-roundup-2/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/food-law-roundup-2/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:56:43 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24546
  • Feds fund Boston campaign bashing sweetened drinks [Globe; see also on NYC] More on ObamaCare “Public Health Fund” subsidies to local paternalist initiatives on diet [WLF]
  • Thanks to federal funding priorities, New York education department had 40 experts on school lunches, only one on science education [Frederick Hess via Stoll]
  • Grocers hope to escape federal menu labeling mandate [FDA Law Blog] How regulations exasperate midsize restaurant operators [Philip Klein, Wash. Examiner]
  • “The Eight Dumbest Restaurant Laws” [Zagat]
  • Proposed federal standards on kid food ads extreme enough that many USDA “healthy” recipes would flunk [Diane Katz, Heritage] Do FTC’s guidelines violate the First Amendment? [WSJ]
  • Compared with what? “Egg farm regulations still skimpy” [Stoll] Deer blamed for E. coli in pick-your-own strawberries [USA Today]
  • U.K.: Your kids are too fat so we’re taking them away [Daily Mail; earlier here, here, etc.]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/food-law-roundup-2/feed/ 1     “White Castle sued by overweight burger-lover” http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/white-castle-sued-by-overweight-burger-lover/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/white-castle-sued-by-overweight-burger-lover/#comments Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:03:07 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24584 New York: “A 290-pound diner claims the White Castle chain has violated the civil rights of its more sizable clientele by not following through on promises to make its tight booths bigger to accommodate their bellies.” [S.F. Chronicle]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/white-castle-sued-by-overweight-burger-lover/feed/ 8     “CA bars may soon be able to serve infused alcohol” http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/ca-bars-may-soon-be-able-to-serve-infused-alcohol/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/ca-bars-may-soon-be-able-to-serve-infused-alcohol/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:40:16 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24405 A victory for California consumers and producers in search of artisanal tippling. [San Francisco Chronicle, last year]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/ca-bars-may-soon-be-able-to-serve-infused-alcohol/feed/ 0     Long hair as religious accommodation http://overlawyered.com/2011/08/long-hair-as-religious-accommodation/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/08/long-hair-as-religious-accommodation/#comments Fri, 05 Aug 2011 05:16:13 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24157 Taco Bell finds itself at odds with the EEOC. [Jon Hyman]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/08/long-hair-as-religious-accommodation/feed/ 14     Tales of the California business climate http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/tales-of-the-california-business-climate/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/tales-of-the-california-business-climate/#comments Wed, 20 Jul 2011 05:37:40 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23912 The CEO of the Carl’s restaurant chain “said he’s had to fire managers who insisted on working more hours than state allows.” [David Houston and Jot Condie, San Jose Mercury-News]

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