![]() ![]() Taco Bell announced Wednesday the introduction of Beyond Carne Asada Steak in collaboration with Beyond Meat. ![]() Sixteen and 17-year-olds can work up to 40 hours a week with 30-minute meal breaks year-round.īe sure to subscribe to First Bite wherever you get your podcasts or on Castos, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts. ![]() They’re allowed to work up to 18 hours a week during school months. Under New Jersey law, 14- and 15-year-olds can work up to 40 hours a week when school is out of session, with 30-minute meal breaks after five hours of work. The settlement is a result of a 2020 audit done by the state of New Jersey into Chipotle that found more than 30,000 violations including instances of minors working past the 40-hour work week and not being given enough meal breaks. also named a child compliance officer and said it will audit its own practices. The fast-casual chain based in Newport Beach, Calif. Hear more from managing editor Leigh Anne Zinsmeister.Ĭhipotle Mexican Grill has agreed to pay the State of New Jersey $7.75 million for thousands of violations of child labor laws, the state announced on Tuesday.Ĭhipotle will require training for managers on the state’s child labor laws under the terms of the settlement. Many operators are also taking consumers’ ongoing interest in off-premises dining into account in their site selection, as they downsize their dining rooms and boost their takeout options with more drive-thru and pickup windows. Others have been taking a closer look at nontraditional locations, such as travel plazas and hotels, or at other sites they might not have considered just a few years ago. Some operators that have long focused on building sites from the ground up have shifted instead to a strategy centered on acquiring closed locations and remodeling them to accommodate their own concepts. Restaurant operators are rethinking their real estate strategies in a challenging market, where top sites are in short supply and costs are rising for both new construction and leased locations. ![]() Plus, catch up on all the top news of the day with our daily news recap at the beginning of each episode.īe sure to subscribe to First Bite wherever you get your podcasts or on Spotify, or Apple Podcasts. Since then, various combinations of Auntie Anne’s, Cinnabon, and Jamba have sprung up nationally, especially in airports and on college campuses. Last year, Focus Brands opened the first Auntie Anne’s drive-thru cobranded with Jamba-simultaneously expanding their presence outside malls and driving home a multi-brand development strategy. Fat Brands CEO Andy Wiederhorn told Nation’s Restaurant News that the company currently has 225 cobranded restaurants, and those locations on average see a 20% increase in average unit volume as compared with traditional units.Īlthough sister brands sharing a location is nothing new, companies are taking it to the next level with new off-premises-focused, tech-forward restaurant formats. Johnny Rockets retro burgers are being paired with Hurricane Grill & Wings’ sister brand, Hurricane Wings, inside a Holiday Inn location.īrand synergy is the name of the game for large restaurant groups these days, many of which are leaning more into mix and match cobranding collaborations and rejecting siloed portfolios. Fat Brands announced Tuesday the grand opening of the first cobranded Johnny Rockets location with Hurricane Wings in Washington, D.C., continuing the global franchising company’s strategy of building up its multi-brand store model that started in 2013 and accelerated earlier this year. ![]()
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