Last updated on November 16th, 2015 at 11:33 am
Food Service News In Brief…
A Massachusetts legislative committee (Labor and Workforce Development) has endorsed a bill establishing a $15-per-hour minimum wage for fast food and big-box store workers. The vote came Nov. 10, the same day fast food workers rallied in favor of higher wages with a march to the State House. The bill calls for a $13.50-per-hour wage starting on Jan. 1, 2017, with the wage rising to $15 per hour on Jan. 1, 2018. The bill advances to the full Massachusetts Senate…
Gordon Food Service plans to open a 40,000-s.f. store in Buffalo, New York, in 2016, serving restaurants, food truck operators and supermarkets. (Editor’s note: This news previously was incorrectly reported as a distribution center rather than a store. The Griffin Report of the Northeast regrets and apologizes for the error.)…
Chipotle Mexican Grill has reopened 43 restaurants in the Pacific Northwest that were closed after an E. Coli outbreak. All restaurants were deep cleaned and sanitized, all ingredients were replaced, and the company beefed up testing of produce and fresh meat and implemented additional food safety procedures and audits…
Former servicemen and women at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and at the Veterans New York Harbor Healthcare System in Manhattan were treated to an all-American “pizza party” in their honor courtesy of Rich Products Corp. Maj. Gen. Ken Dowd, U.S. Army (retired), along with Donna Reeves-Collins of Rich Products Corp., were on hand in D.C. to personally serve the vets; Kim Rich-Lumpkin, daughter of Chairman Bob Rich, and Rich’s Chef Sam Selvaggio, served the pizzas in New York. More than 200 veterans joined the festivities at these locations, and soldiers were provided with a complimentary copy of the newly released novel, “Looking Through Water,” by Bob Rich. All of the proceeds from the sale of book are being donated to Project Healing Waters, a nonprofit organization aiding the physical and emotional rehabilitation of veterans. Rich’s also donated several hundred frozen pizzas to the USO Warrior and Family Center at Ft. Belvoir and to the Walter Reed National Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
