ROC-NY to release study
charging discrimination
NEW YORK — The Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York, or
ROC-NY, an employee advocacy
group and union proponent, said it
would release a study highlighting racial and gender discrimination at more than 180 of this city’s
fine-dining restaurants. The study
contains data derived from two
years of research in which pairs of
subjects of different races with
equal qualifications visited
restaurants testing for preferential treatment. While few details
of the study are available, including which restaurants were visited, ROC said workers of color received 54 percent of the job offers
received by white workers.
ROC officials said the report also
“shows that despite the economic
crisis, the restaurant industry continues to prosper; however, many
qualified employees have yet to realize those benefits based on the discriminatory practices in hiring and
promotions within the industry.”
Rick Sampson, president and
chief executive of the New York
State Restaurant Association,
called the report “ludicrous.”
“This industry is the largest
employer of minority groups in the
nation,” he said, “and to say the
industry continues to prosper in
this economic crisis? This industry has taken one hell of a hit because of the economy.”
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Health groups join call
for food safety overhaul
WASHINGTON — Two health care
advocacy groups released a report
that examines the problems of the
“fragmented and antiquated” current system for preventing foodborne illness in America and proposes fixes for the lead federal
agencies. The report released by
the Trust for America’s Health
and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is titled, “Keeping America’s Food Safe: A Blueprint for Fixing the Food Safety System at the
U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services.”
The report calls for immediate
action by President Barack Obama to consolidate food safety leadership within the Food and Drug
Administration and for his administration to work with Congress to
create a separate Food Safety Administration within HHS. Earlier
this month, Obama said he would
create a designated group to advise him on ways to strengthen
the country’s food safety laws and
inspection capabilities shortly after the House and Senate began
considering bills intended to do
likewise.
In early March the Senate introduced the Food and Drug Administration Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009, which seeks
broader federal powers to inspect
food processed domestically and
imported to the United States. The
bill calls for $825 million in funding to increase the numbers of inspectors and inspection frequency.
The House bill, called the Safe
Food Enforcement, Assessment,
Standards and Targeting, or
FEAST, also aims to bolster what
for years has been called an inadequately staffed inspection system.
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Lime Fresh to open fifth
location in Miami
MIAMI — Lime Fresh Mexican
Grill, a fast-casual concept that
opened its first location in South
Beach in 2004, is set to debut its
fifth unit in Midtown Miami in
April. The 2,100-square-foot unit
will have its grand opening April
16. It has 70 seats inside and 40
seats outside. The chain said it
would open its sixth location this
summer near the University of
Miami. The concept is known for
its quesadillas and burritos, which
produce an average per-person
check of $14 to $17.
