Diversity Management, News and Updates
When Bobby Paul Edwards took over J & J Cafeteria in Conway, S.C., as the daily manager, he enslaved John Christopher Smith, a long-time employee, for five years. Smith, a Black man, had been working at J & J for 20 years, since he was 12 years old. Edwards, who…
Originally Published by Nielsen Nielsen CGA, the on-premise measurement business arm of Nielsen, released details around the launch of RestauranTrak, an industry-first, benchmarking analytic platform for food service operators in the U.S., designed to help level the analytic playing field within the U.S. restaurant landscape. With this launch, any U.S.-based…
In Ocean County, N.J., one family restaurant is catering to the autistic community. The newly-opened Riv’s Toms River Hub, a Rivoli family restaurant, will have a sensory dining room dedicated to providing a full-service dining experience to children with autism, thanks to inspiration from the owners’ young grandson, Chase. The…
Alexia Washington went with one of her friends to a Mississippi drive-thru restaurant called Who Dat’s last Friday. But Washington had a feeling something was wrong after they were given their food. She decided to look at her receipt. “Something told me to look at my receipt,” Washington said, according to…
A random act of kindness brought a little bit of joy to a newly-widowed elderly woman. Jamario Howard, Tae Knight and JaMychol Baker were eating supper at Brad’s Bar-B-Que in Oxford, Alabama. As they were eating, he noticed an elderly woman sitting alone at another table. Race relations in Alabama…
Dr. Clyde Pemberton, a Black restaurant owner and retired psychiatrist in Harlem, sued the NYPD for his arrest after he helped an unconscious white woman in his restaurant. When Pemberton tried to tell the white supervisor from the 28th precinct that he was a doctor, the officer interrupted him: “You’re…
A TripAdvisor review is garnering a lot of attention for its description of a restaurant owner who allegedly sexually harassed an employee in front of the reviewer. Christina Fowler wrote a review of the English pub The Bell At Westoning for the popular travel website, but ran into a slight…