Waiting staff should receive their tips in full and it should be clearer to customers that gratuities are optional, the business secretary says.

The manager told police he tried to stop the suspects from driving away, but he was hit by their car, according to the report. The manager for the McDonald's at 520 S. Thompson St. called police Monday to report a robbery, according to the report. The manager told police 3 people went through the drive thru and asked for three large waters. Those three parked, went into the restaurant, dumped out the water and then filled the cups with soda, the manager told police.

I don’t know about you, but if there’s one thing that’s always bugged me about eating in restaurants it's having to wear clothes. Why stain them, when you can imbibe as the Romans might, naked, with sauce and wine spilling all down your body? This is presumably the gap in the market The Bunyadi is hoping to fill, a pop-up restaurant coming to London this summer for three months.

At Tampa Bay farm-to-table restaurants, you’re being fed fiction. By Laura Reiley

A funny thing happened when reporter Jennifer 8. Lee showed the man who invented General Tso's Chicken what had become of his dish: He was appalled. "That's not right. This isn't authentic," he told her, an interaction she chronicled in her 2009 book The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food. General Tso's Chicken might be the most popular Chinese dish in the western world...

Of the three establishments, two have closed down, while the third has sent all but one of their robots back and reverted to human servers, the Workers' Daily newspaper reports. While the robot waiters were an excellent gimmick to get customers through the door, they were not quite so good at their programmed task of serving food and drink to customers, according to staff. "The mobility of the catering staff was great, we initially recruited six for service, but after a...

Due to low federal minimum wages for tipped workers, many grapple with poverty rates. Seven states, however, pay tipped workers full minimum wage before tips. And with minimum-wage hikes looming, some restaurants are pioneering no-tipping policies, eliminating gratuities in favor of higher hourly wages for workers. NewsHour's Alison Stewart reports.

When it comes to policymaking, major chains have more influence than you think. The food and beverage industry cares as much about politics as voters. The industry spent more than $33 million on lobbying in 2015, according to political research group OpenSecrets.

Eatsa is almost fully automated, functioning like a human-powered vending machine spitting out freshly prepared quinoa bowls.

In the early 20th century, the Chinese faced draconian immigration rules. But owners of a few types of businesses could get special visas. In 1915, restaurants got on that list. The rest is history.

Officials in Chicago are working to improve restaurant inspections by using data analytics and social media to predict and detect which establishments are more likely to have potential food safety violations. NewsHour's Megan Thompson reports for the Urban Ideas series.

Romance is hard to quantify, but OpenTable has come up with a formula based on 5 million reviews and shout-outs on its food-reservation website. The result is a list of the 100 most romantic restaurants in the U.S. for 2016 -- just in time for Valentine's Day.

More restaurants are offering better wages, benefits and working conditions for employees. A new book rates dozens of restaurants and scolds the ones taking the "low road" to profitability.

Restaurant critic Pete Wells tries to keep the customer in mind with all of his reviews. "We show awful lot of deference to chefs in our culture and maybe not enough deference to customers," he says.

This may sound like a bad dream, but it is an unfortunate reality: popular Tex-Mex chain, Chipotle, is closing all of its restaurants for one day. This is set to occur on Feb. 8, so plan ahead to eat elsewhere if Chipotle is your favorite spot. The temporary cease of business is occurring to

Chipotle's food safety crisis, explained.

A former pub on the River Irwell in Summerseat near Bury has collapsed due to the River Irwell flooding. The 200-year-old building that was the Waterside pub and restaurant sits on a bridge crossing the River Irwell and locals are now concerned the bridge may not hold.

Vegetables have moved from the side to the center of the plate. And as another year begins, it appears that plants are the new meat.

Sushi place that uses a well laid out conveyor belt system to serve the maximum amount of customers with quality sushi at the cheapest possible cost.