A restaurant in San Francisco that has a no tip-policy and instead shares profits with its staff says it wasn't hit by the labor shortage

…Zazie pays its staff the city's minimum wage, which is $16.32 per hour. Cornelius said that servers, kitchen staff, and dishwashers typically make $1,000 or more a week from wages and profit shares, depending on how busy the restaurant is…

https://www.businessinsider.com/sf-no-tip-profit-sharing-restaurant-labor-shortage-jobs-employment-2022-2

‘Pay me my worth’: restaurant workers demand livable wages as industry continues to falter

Low wages and poor working conditions – as well as unruly customers – combine to keep the food service labor shortage going…

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/21/restaurant-industry-worker-shortage-pay-increase

White man who enslaved and abused black restaurant employee received 10 years in prison - The Washington Post

John Christopher Smith initially liked working at J & J Cafeteria in Conway, S.C., where he was hired when he was 12 years old. For about two decades, Smith washed dishes, bused tables and cooked food at the small-town diner without issue. That all changed around 2009, authorities say, when Bobby Paul Edwards took over as daily manager and enslaved Smith at the restaurant for five years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/11/07/white-restaurant-owner-admitted-enslaving-black-man-years-he-got-years-prison/

'I will never say no': D.C. restaurant goes viral for 5-year tradition of feeding the homeless - Daily Kos

Washington, D.C., restaurateur Kazi Mannan has had quite a week. The owner of Sakina Grill, a Pakistani quick-service café just a few blocks from the White House, has been overwhelmed by the attention he's received for something he's always done: provide a meal to anyone who's hungry. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1834721

Video shows white woman demanding Guatemalan family show their passports in a restaurant - VICE:

"You don't freeload in this fucking country," the white woman can be heard saying to the family, who were here on vacation. "You get the fuck out, back to your fucking country." ....
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/j53zmp/video-shows-white-woman-demanding-guatemalan-family-show-their-passports-in-a-restaurant

‘Where are the babies, Mitch?’: McConnell pursued from restaurant by angry crowd - The Washington Post

"We know where you live!" someone shouted at the Senate majority leader, before the small crowd turned on another man. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2018/07/08/where-are-the-babies-mitch-mcconnell-pursued-from-restaurant-by-angry-crowd/

How The Red Hen Could've Treated Sarah Huckabee Sanders - YouTube

Stephen proposes an alternative way for restaurants to treat Donald Trump's Press Secretary going forward.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDkgAsMVxts

Perspective | How cartoonists are skewering the Red Hen vs. Sarah Huckabee Sanders incident - The Washington Post

Red Hen's refusal to serve the White House press secretary points to the hot political divide. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2018/06/26/how-cartoonists-are-skewering-the-red-hen-and-huckabee-sanders/

The party of Donald Trump has the gall to complain that someone else is being uncivil - The Washington Post: Opinion

Have we all gone nuts? ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/06/26/the-party-of-donald-trump-has-the-gall-to-complain-that-someone-else-is-being-uncivil/

Everything Trump got wrong about Red Hen, in one tweet - The Washington Post: Analysis

Online images indicate that the restaurant "looks like the nicest building within a block." And Trump's own properties have had more serious health violations. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/food/wp/2018/06/25/everything-trump-got-wrong-about-red-hen-in-one-tweet/

White House Officials Get Left-Swiped | The Daily Show

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the latest member of Team Trump to face public condemnation, while Trump staffers complain that their boss is a dating buzzkill....
https://youtu.be/8zhYDFjniTo

Conservative columnist praises restaurant that threw Sarah Huckabee Sanders out: 'decent human beings' should 'shame and shun' - Raw Story

On Friday night, Trump spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders was ejected from a Virginia restaurant after the owner asked her staff whether they wanted to serve her or not. The incident has sparked blowback from some conservatives who say it was "bigoted" and "hateful."....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/conservative-columnist-praises-restaurant-threw-sarah-huckabee-sanders-decent-human-beings-shame-shun/

CNN's Navarro has no sympathy for Sarah Sanders being booted from a restaurant: That's 'the cost of being an accomplice' - Raw Story

Appearing on CNN Saturday morning, regular contributor Ana Navarro was asked about the report that White House Spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders and seven family members were refused service at a Virginia restaurant because she works for President Donald Trump. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/cnns-navarro-no-sympathy-sarah-sanders-booted-restaurant-thats-cost-accomplice/

Expert: Sarah Sanders broke ethics rules with tweet about restaurant ejection - the guardian

Obama ethics chief says press secretary shouldn't have used government account to condemn a private business....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/24/sarah-sanders-speaks-about-ejection-from-virginia-restaurant

NY man to people speaking Spanish at restaurant: 'My next call is to ICE' - CNN

A man berated employees and customers for speaking Spanish in a New York restaurant, describing them as undocumented and threatening to call immigration officials.....
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/17/us/new-york-man-restaurant-ice-threat/index.html

A Texas restaurant manager asked a black couple to move tables so he could give it to a white customer - Raw Story

Successful motivational speaker, Johnny Wimbrey, was out having dinner with his wife when he experienced racial discrimination in Texas, according WFAA News. While at Sambuca 360, Wimbrey said the manager asked him to move tables and he politely declined. "I said, 'No I think we want to sit here. We have a great view. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/texas-restaurant-manager-asked-black-couple-move-tables-give-white-customer/

A restaurant denied a black man's coupon -- but hours later accepted the same coupon from his white friend - Raw Story

A manager at a pizza restaurant in Rocky Mount, North Carolina is being sued for claims that his employees refused a coupon from a black customer, but two hours later accepted the same coupon from his white roommate, reports WRAL News. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/restaurant-denied-black-mans-coupon-hours-later-accepted-coupon-white-friend/

University of North Texas Student Labelled N****r on Receipt From On-Campus Eatery - The Daily Beast

The racial slur was written in the space where her name should've been on a receipt for buffalo wings. A worker at the eatery, Krispy Krunchy Chicken, has been fired. ....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/university-of-north-texas-student-labelled-nr-on-receipt-from-on-campus-eatery