by Amber Ballog | May 30, 2018 | Manage My Restaurant
May at NMRA was all about how restaurants give back. Check out how these 10 New Mexico restaurants give back to support their communities and beyond. 1. Yanni’s Mediterranean Bar & Grill After Hurricane Harvey swept through Texas, several New Mexico...
by Lawrence Baker | Jun 17, 2021 | BLOG, Industry Voice, Notes from the CEO and Chair, Uncategorized
Restaurants were blessed to have money carved out just for the losses suffered by the industry in the American Rescue Plan. The Restaurant Revitalization Fund set aside $27 billion for an industry that lost $270 Billion. It was not enough, but it was something. I...
by Lawrence Baker | Apr 16, 2021 | BLOG, Manage My Restaurant, Notes from the CEO and Chair
Restaurants can’t find workers—why and what you might do about it. In New Mexico, seventy-nine thousand five hundred seventy-eight (75,578) people are still unemployed, yet we can’t get anyone to work. What the heck? There are many reasons for this phenomenon. The...
by Lawrence Baker | Sep 18, 2020 | BLOG, Industry Voice, News, Scams, Alerts, Notes from the CEO and Chair, Restaurant Regulations
Here are some Sobering Statistics from September 2020. So much has changed for all of us in the last six months. It is time to take a look at the raw numbers of our industry and how we are all being affected. To be sure, restaurants are taking the virus seriously. We...
by Lawrence Baker | Oct 28, 2019 | Manage My Restaurant, Member Benefits, Notes from the CEO and Chair
In regards to membership, President Theodore Roosevelt said, “Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man has a moral right to withhold his support from an organization that is striving to improve conditions...
by Carol Wight | Sep 4, 2019 | Alerts, BLOG, Legal and Regulatory Alerts, Notes from the CEO and Chair
Bernalillo County Commission Amends Paid Time Off Ordinance Again This ordinance takes effect on July 1, 2020. If you have a restaurant in the county you must comply. Here is an excerpt on accrual from the final PTO Ordinance (the full ordinance is linked at the...
by Dionne Wright-Bower | Jan 11, 2019 | Notes from the CEO and Chair
There are two urgent issues facing businesses in Albuquerque that we need you to be aware of– Sick Leave and a proposed plastics ban. Trick Leave is Back!!! Issue summary: When the proponents of a sick leave ordinance lost the vote in Albuquerque you might have...
