A Lettuce Outbreak Hit One Chain That Never Served the Recalled Product

Salad and Go appears to have done nothing wrong. It did not serve the lettuce linked to this summer’s cyclospora outbreak and was not named in any related case. Still, the fallout reached the company anyway: on August 5, it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, closed all 70 Arizona and Nevada locations, and shut down […]
Fifty States, Fifty Different Rules for What You’re Allowed to Charge

A Tampa diner noticed a 3% “venue fee” on her bill this summer at RO in Hyde Park, even though the charge did not appear anywhere on the menu. She posted about it on Nextdoor, and restaurant staff reportedly told her other nearby spots were doing the same thing.2 The complaint spread just days before […]