August, 2015 - HospitalityLawyer.com®

Gun Violence in America

by The Soufan Group in Insurance & Loss Prevention, Safety & Security. Posted August 31, 2015

Bottom Line Up Front: While terrorism dominates U.S. political and foreign policy concerns, the threat posed by domestic gun violence—from a statistical standpoint—far outweighs the threat of terrorism within the United States With over 30,000 gun-related deaths a year (less than half of which are murders, and the rest suicides and accidental deaths), the United ...

Alcoholic Beverage Industry: Three-Tier System

by Park Street in Food & Beverage. Posted August 30, 2015

The U.S. Alcoholic beverage industry is very complex and highly regulated, and the laws currently in place find their roots in the time of prohibition and its repeal. Prohibition (18th Amendment to the US Constitution) was repealed through ratification of the 21st Amendment to the US Constitution in 1933 and the FAA (Federal Alcohol Administration) ...

How To: Get Employees Involved with Your Pest Control Program

by Jennifer Brumfield in Food & Beverage. Posted August 30, 2015

Pest issues can arise in food service establishments for a variety of reasons, from incoming shipments and landscaping to sanitation and facility maintenance. That’s a lot of ground to cover for one person, so the most successful pest control programs involve a team approach. Your employees are the eyes and ears of your establishment and ...

Active Shooter Response Planning

by Robert Shuster in Human Resources, Safety & Security. Posted August 27, 2015

With every news flash of a workplace active shooter incident, now almost monthly, it becomes increasingly evident that organizations/businesses/schools need an Active Shooter Response Plan. Furthermore, this is not a one size fits all challenge. Granted, the plan from one organization or institution to another may have some common reaction guidelines. Most of the active ...

Too Many Law Students, Too Few Legal Jobs

by Stephen Harper in Legal. Posted August 25, 2015

Ten months after graduation, only 60 percent of the law school class of 2014 had found full-time long-term jobs that required them to pass the bar exam. Even that improvement over the class of 2013 (a 57 percent employment rate) came with three asterisks: Last year, the American Bar Association changed the job-reporting rules to ...

2 American Service Members Foil Gunman in Train Attack

by Adam Nossiter in Safety & Security, Travel. Posted August 24, 2015

PARIS — The two American service members who tackled a suspected terrorist on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris rushed him even though he was fully armed, then grabbed him by the neck and beat him over the head with his own automatic rifle until he was unconscious, one of them said in ...

What the Foiled Train Attack Revealed

by The Soufan Group in Safety & Security, Travel. Posted August 24, 2015

Bottom Line Up Front: The foiled attack on a Amsterdam-Paris high-speed train on August 21 revealed the vulnerability of non-aviation mass transit The incident also revealed the thin line between mass murder and minor injuries that are a hallmark of poorly planned lone wolf attacks; bystanders have very short windows in which intervention is possible ...

As Minimum Wages Rise, Restaurants Say No to Tips, Yes to Higher Prices

by Patricia Cohen in Food & Beverage, Human Resources. Posted August 24, 2015

SEATTLE — Restaurant owners, customers and staff have long railed against the tyranny of tipping, but like a love affair gone bad, it has proved difficult to quit. Now, prompted by a spurt of new minimum wage proposals in major cities, an expanding number of restaurateurs are experimenting with no-tipping policies as a way to ...

Technology to Keep Swimmers Safe

by Jennifer Jolly in Technology. Posted August 24, 2015

On a hot summer afternoon in July, my friend’s 8-year-old son Cody nearly drowned in a backyard swimming pool. There were two moms supervising and only one other family in the water. It was quiet and calm, and those watching him thought he was just trying to see how long he could hold his breath. ...

Whatabattle!

by Loren Steffy in Food & Beverage, Legal. Posted August 24, 2015

Two summers ago, with the South Texas sun beating down, a group of civic leaders gathered in front of the Whataburger on Main Street in Alice to unveil a bust of the late Joe Andrews Sr. The likeness of Andrews, wearing a cowboy hat and mounted on a limestone pedestal, was commissioned to mark the ...

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