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3 Ways Restaurants Can Use Technology to Combat the $15 Minimum Wage Increase
by evansfox | Sep 21, 2016 | Restaurants & Bar
Beer walls like Ruins Pub in Kansas City Automated cocktail dispensing machines like Tended Bar Tableside or kiosk automated ordering and payment systems These touch screen technologies appeal to customers because they don’t have to wait for servers to place an order...
Tips for Breaking Free from Alice’s Shackles
by evansfox | Sep 21, 2016 | Patent
I wish I had never met Alice! I feel she’s imposed on me, much like how a spouse is imposed on another in an arranged marriage or a mother-in-law that overstayed her welcome. Alice is here to stay. Of course I’m referring to the 2014 decision of the United States...
Money Making Idea
by evansfox | Sep 20, 2016 | Retail Liquor License
Working with a lot of craft and microbreweries, I am often asked about adding event space, additional bar space and outdoor seating. The good news is that business is brisk enough to justifying adding more functional space to service more customers. The best business...
This machine can help restaurant & bars fight $15 hr minimum wage
by evansfox | Sep 19, 2016 | Restaurants & Bar
As a patent attorney with a practice focus on restaurants, bars & craft beverage producers, I was excited to learn about Tended Bar, an automatic alcoholic beverage dispensing machine. Not only is the technology just plain cool, it can be one solution to help...
ROC Flavors Introduces Vegetarian Indian Food
by evansfox | Sep 18, 2016 | Restaurants & Bar
Michele Kayal’s From an actress to an author of Indian Cookbooks: the lives of Madhur Jaffrey in ROC flavors introduces vegetarian Indian food. I am not vegetarian but I absolutely love vegetables and ethnic food. The flavors of India bring excitement to the pallet in...
On Call Practice Could Result in Big Penalties and Back Wages
by evansfox | Sep 17, 2016 | Restaurants & Bar
Restaurant Owners should take note of the New York Attorney General’s written notice to several national retailers (J Crew, Victoria’s Secret, Bath & Body Works, Gap, Abercrombie & Fitch, Williams & Sonoma, and Urban Outfitters) concerning “on call”...
Talk About a Shitty Day at Work!
by evansfox | Sep 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
A grocery store warehouse company had a most unusual situation- someone was defecating (pooping) around the food warehouse. The employer wanted to identify the offender among its employees. It took saliva swabs of two suspected employees to use the DNA to identify the...
Avoiding Trademark Pitfalls
by evansfox | Sep 15, 2016 | Retail Liquor License
Why Not Use A Low Cost Online Provider for your Trademark Registration? When someone wants to protect, they don’t just need a simple registration form completed and then filed. Frankly, anyone can complete a form. However, even a well prepared form may not get you the...
Great Harvest Bread Co.
by evansfox | Sep 14, 2016 | Restaurants & Bar, Retail Liquor License
Great Harvest Bread Co. uses the slogan “Bread. The way it ought to be.” Panera uses the slogan “Food As It Should Be.” Great Harvest alleges that Panera uses its similar slogan on products that directly compete with the bakery’s products, creating potential consumer...
Alcoholic Beverage Licensees Should Take Note of the Several Multi-Agency Investigations Undercover Sting Operations Targeting Widespread Underage Drinking
by evansfox | Sep 13, 2016 | Retail Liquor License
For licensees who get caught, the result is likely to be an emergency suspension order. The New York State Liquor Authority (SLA) suspended the license of Barley Legal Inc., doing business as “Bootleggers” at 200 Broadway in Troy, New York. The suspension was ordered...
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