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After victories in his battles against tobacco, trans fats and soda, outgoing New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is waging one last battle with his…

Thousands of restaurant and foodservice managers across Illinois who are just starting to navigate changes to the state’s Food Handling Regulation Enforcement Act are getting…

California is taking it slow on the state’s new law banning bare-hand contact with prepared food. At the urging of the California Restaurant Association, the…

New Year’s Day brought good tidings and higher hourly wages for workers in the 13 states that increased their minimum wage on Jan. 1. Of…

Apparently, a lot of voices want to be heard on regulating trans fat. Because of a larger-than-anticipated number of stakeholder requests for speaking time, the…

It just got a little easier to navigate the rules, regulations and red tape of the New York restaurant scene for the city’s diverse operators.…

The national dialogue to raise the minimum wage, boosted by legislation in more than a dozen states, continues in the United States. But the conversation…

While much of the country digs out of the snow, California is facing a severe drought, likely the worst and most prolonged period of dry…

Where does the U.S.’ uneaten food go? Every year the country’s 312.7 million people are disposing of approximately 80 billion lb. of food waste—that’s more…

Late-night comedians like to dig up and mock antiquated rules and laws that local governments never knew about. They, and everyone else, missed this one…