The Business of Food

A former Panda Express employee alleged in a lawsuit Wednesday that the fast-food chain pressured her to attend a "bizarre" self-improvement seminar that "quickly devolved into psychological abuse" when she was "forced to strip down to her underwear" in front of strangers and coworkers. 

What’s in a name? If the name is “jimmies,” it’s hard to say, but one ice cream producer in Massachusetts isn’t taking any chances.

Target's new private label, called Favorite Day, will feature over 700 different “carefully crafted” food and beverage items.

Beyond Meat expands product line at Walmart with hot Italian sausage and expanded Cookout Classic.

Gabriella Ottaiano said the blessings of Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy changed her pizza business in northern New Jersey earlier this year.

The Pizza Press Founder Dara Maleki discusses the wide-ranging impact the reopening of Disneyland will have on the surrounding community.

Starbucks officially announced on Monday that Oatly oat milk will be available at U.S. locations starting  Tuesday, after successful testing in the Midwest and California. News of the new “permanent” menu item comes after the chain had previously announced a deal with Oatly to introduce the brand’s products in markets including Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, Taiwan and Thailand.

A Los Angeles diner based on Skid Row has been donating meals to those in need as part of its plan to survive the COVID-19 pandemic and help its surrounding community at the same time.

LendingTree released the results of a survey about the state of the restaurant industry in the U.S. on Wednesday.

Publix is taking a shot at incentivizing the coronavirus vaccine for employees, offering $125 store gift cards to associates who receive the full inoculation.

McDonald’s is setting new diversity goals to bring more women and minorities into management roles.

On Wednesday, Dine Brands announced it is opening a new virtual restaurant out of Applebee’s kitchens called Cosmic Wings.

Do you know which restaurant cooked the meal you just had delivered? Increasingly, it can be hard to tell.

Entrepreneurs, intellectuals and presidential candidates have in recent years touted “universal basic income,” a cash stipend to everyone with no strings attached, as the answer to poverty, automation and the drudgery of work. It has never gotten off the ground in the U.S.

The model and reality star has launched her own 818 Tequila brand, joining a slew of stars like Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Ryan Reynolds in looking to build the next billion-dollar spirits empire after George Clooney’s Casamigos label sold for up to $1 billion in 2017.

News of Tyson’s latest policy comes one month after Tyson announced a partnership with Matrix Medical to deploy mobile health clinics to aid with vaccine administration and COVID-19 education. Tyson, meanwhile, is not currently requiring its employees to get the vaccine, but rather “strongly” encouraging it.

A Black McDonald's franchisee alleged in a lawsuit Tuesday that McDonald's discriminated against him by keeping his restaurants out of affluent areas. 

The National Restaurant Association sent a letter to congressional leaders Tuesday urging them against raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, saying that it would force businesses to cut jobs, decrease hours, increase menu prices, and close down altogether in some cases. 

How restaurant owners are showing support for Asian-American communities amid a surge of hate crimes.

Hundreds of meatpacking workers have been vaccinated against the coronavirus but the union that represents many of them says several hundred thousand more have not, despite the risks they continue to face at work.