A huge Burger King franchisee is rushing to cut costs over California's $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers. Restaurants are cutting staff's hours and turning to tech.
Laura Reyes was in the middle of her shift as a cook at Burger King in San Jose, when she started feeling a sharp pain in her abdomen and lower back. As the day went on, Reyes started bleeding, and the pain became so severe that she felt like she might die. She had asked more than once if she could leave work, but her managers would not allow it. “I was really worried,” she told Fast Company through a translator. “In that moment, I didn’t know I was pregnant.” Reyes later found out that it...
Justin Foronda is the type of creative, motivated, second-generation entrepreneur who should be able to thrive in Los Angeles. Born and raised in Historic Filipinotown, Foronda opened HiFi Kitchen in 2019 and kept the doors open during the pandemic's economic disruptions through pure hustle. Last year the 37-year-old staged a Filipino holiday market across the street from HiFi to draw crowds to the neighborhood. He started a board game night at the store to bring in customers. Next weekend he's...
Wendy's plans its expansion to the region.
JOPLIN, Mo. (KSNF) — Over time, everything gets gradually more expensive. Even inflation can't keep fast food's affordability sacred. One solution? People are embracing coupons as often as they can when heading to their favorite fast-food joints. Refermate, a shopping platform that provides coupon codes, analyzed Google search data over the past year to determine []
American consumers have plenty of restaurant options from abroad. Stacker compiled a list of 10 international food chains that have expanded into the U.S.
The older I get, the more my dying brain cements around the idea that fans invoke “small sample size” primarily when they don’t like the results. In a small sample size, Joey Bart is doing very nicely as a new member of the Pittsburgh Pirates, who’ve come to play the San Francisco Giants this weekend in a 3-game series. He’s 7-for-23 with a trio of dingers, a double, and 8 RBI to go with 5 walks against just 8 strikeouts. That’s a triple slash of .304/.429/.739 in a measly 28 PA. Now, it’s not...
Bojangles, the popular restaurant chain known for its Southern-style chicken and biscuits, is coming to Los Angeles.
On the cusp of a historic TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations final, Cote d'Ivoire coach Emerse Fae has called on his players to make the perfect start in their seismic semi-final against DR Congo.
EU designates Shein as a Very Large Online Platform (VLOP) under Digital Services Act due to 45M+ user base, imposing stricter regulations.
See how well YOU score on this week's local news & fun quiz! by Wm. Steven Humphrey BUENOS DIAS, BRAINY BOTTOM! It's time once again to put your brainy-brain to the test with this week's edition of POP QUIZ PDX—our weekly, local, sassy-ass trivia quiz. And this week, your brain will be tested on how much you know about our city commissioners (up to their bullshit again), local restaurants making it big around the world, and YOUR...
$20-an-hour mininum wage for fast food workers in California began April 1. Workers have already complained of getting fewer hours since then. Chains like Burger King are rolling out more digital ordering kiosks to cut staff