Raleigh non-profit restaurant founder Maggie Kane and the pay-what-you-can A Place at the Table will host a food truck rodeo Sunday June 4 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Place at the Table Nearly a dozen local food trucks will adopt a pay-what-you-can model for a unique kind of rodeo this weekend. A Place at the Table, the popular Raleigh non-profit cafe, will host a food truck rodeo this Sunday based on its pay-what-you-can model. Here are the details: The […]

SACRAMENTO — California legislators signed a nation-leading measure giving more than a half-million fast food workers more power and protections, despite the objections of restaurant owners who warned it would drive up consumers’ costs. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the law on Monday, creating a 10-member Fast Food Council with equal numbers of workers’ delegates and employers’ representatives, along with two state officials, empowered to set minimum standards for wages, hours and working conditions in California. The law caps minimum wage increases for fast food […]

The night staff of a southern Indiana fast-food restaurant walked off the job in protest on Saturday, with the eatery’s patrons left to discover a note saying that the restaurant was unsanitary and the workers were underfpaid. In the note left on the drive-thru speaker of a Jeffersonville Rally’s, the manager wrote that he had “had enough” and that all of the employees had left the building. A reporter from WHAS in Louisville, Kentucky, just across the border from Jeffersonville, […]