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Pizza Hut pledges to drop some chicken antibiotics by 2022

Jun 20, 2018 | Archive

NEW YORK, June 19 (Reuters) – Yum Brand Inc’s Pizza Hut chain will fully phase out chickens raised with certain antibiotics in its U.S. restaurants by 2022, in the latest push by a major restaurant chain to follow healthier food practices. The restaurant had announced in 2016 plans to remove antibiotics important to human medicine from chicken for its pizzas by the end of March 2017. (Reuters)

Starbucks lowers profit forecast, speeds closures of poorly performing stores

Jun 20, 2018 | Archive

Starbucks said its profits will be lower than previously expected this year, and it will close more underperforming stores as part of a multipronged response to what chief executive Kevin Johnson on Tuesday called unacceptably slow growth. The company said comparable sales growth at existing stores, a key measure of retail performance, was expected to be just 1 percent in the current quarter, despite a booming economy and a broadly healthy restaurant industry. (Seattle Times)

Tip Pooling Policies – Survey Results

Jun 20, 2018 | Archive

Tip pooling policies are a controversial topic in the restaurant industry – we decided to learn more about tip pooling policies and the effect they have on workers and customers. With the need to raise wages for kitchen workers, plus recent changes to federal regulations and laws governing the distribution of tips, tip pooling policies are an issue everyone in the restaurant industry is familiar with. (Poached)