A restaurant owner in Michigan says that diners are becoming ruder and staff don't know if they'll leave their shift 'crying or feeling humiliated'

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Server carrying bowls of food in a restaurant

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An East Coast restaurant chain has been ordered to pay $11.4 million back to more than 1,300 employees over claims it paid staff below minimum wage

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Close-up of chefs hands holding a saute pan to cook food, flambeing contents. Flames rising from the pan.

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A group tipped staff $10,000 at a restaurant in Utah, causing a surge in job applications to the business, its owner said

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Claudia and Alfonso Brito
Alfonso Brito said that the number of applications for roles at his restaurant had boomed since the diners left the tip.

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'Why is it packaged like a pregnancy test?' Some McDonald's workers really hate the new McFlurry spoon

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McFlurry in Singapore.
McDonald's is getting rid of its hollow plastic McFlurry spoons in the US.

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South Korean tech bosses fret about a flood of cheap Chinese robot waiters

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AI serving robot from KT carries foods and drinks during a demonstration at a restaurant in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020.
A serving robot from KT at a restaurant in Seoul, South Korea.

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