Restaurants can give back to the community in unique ways. Patronage and customer loyalty is based on trust. Customers trust that they will get quality service and good food when they dine out. Restaurants trust that their community will keep coming back for more. Giving back to the community your restaurant feeds will in turn […]
Tip Pooling Rules… What’s the big deal?
Finally a decision on tip pooling! Restaurants have the direction we need to move forward in sharing tips with the heart-of-the-house (HOH) employees (kitchen, bussers and dishwashers) – under certain circumstances. For restaurants this clarification has been long awaited. In the last few years, there have been many lawsuits and differing judgements making it difficult […]
.05 Making Criminals of Good Citizens
.05 Making Criminals of Good Citizens If you live in New Mexico you know drunk driving is a problem. It seems that headlines consistently point to drunk drivers with multiple DWI charges killing someone while driving drunk for the 8th time. Most of these offenders are well over the legal blood-alcohol content (BAC) of .08. […]
NMRA Wants You To Be Ready For Your Health Inspection
9 Tips To Prepare for Your Health Inspection NMRA says the proper strategy for a successful health inspection is to be ready at all times. To stay ahead of the game, managers can conduct weekly, in-house inspections. Here are nine tips to help your team prepare: Use the same form – or a similar form […]
Who will be scheduling your employees? You or the government?
Scheduling is a pain! Anyone who has ever been in charge of a restaurant schedule knows how painful it is. There are many pressures including anticipating business volume, employee expectations and requests for time off. The next scheduling pressure point is going to come from politicians. Yes you heard me. Politicians are interested in how […]
Employees Sue Restaurant… Who is the Victim?
It could be you! I just had a very disturbing visit from an immigrant couple who recently had to close their restaurant in Santa Fe. It appears they were sued by three employees for not paying the “living wage” in Santa Fe. The City attorney audited the restaurant for each case and found that in […]
Help us add $3.5 million in tourism dollars!
NM 2018 Legislative Session Begins January 16th As usual we need your help with your legislators. The beauty of New Mexico politics is that we are a state with a small population and our legislators are our neighbors, customers and friends. As a business owner/employer/ tax payer in their district you have more influence than […]
Fund the Albuquerque Sick Leave Campaign
We have had many victories in our attempt to promote pro-business messages against the sick leave initiative in Albuquerque. We won the attempt to keep the initiative off of the 2016 November ballot. We won the argument against putting a misleading summary on the ballot. And we hope to win our lawsuit claiming that ballot […]
CEO Op-Ed on Albuquerque Sick Leave
A recent opinion piece by an Albuquerque restaurant owner shows she is passionately in support of a sick leave ordinance. Unfortunately, it appears she has not read and analyzed the entire ordinance or she would have a better appreciation and understanding of the significant costs and risks to her business and to all Albuquerque businesses […]
DO NOT SHARE TIPS! $50,000 Fines!
DO NOT share tips with back-of-the-house employees!!! $50,000 Fines involved!! In the restaurant business, we all know the pay discrepancy between servers and cooks. Cooks and dishwashers are some of the hardest working individuals in your restaurant, yet they can’t share in tips because restaurant tip sharing is against the law. Because of this law […]