Episode 179: Workers at Minneapolis Bar Unionize, Citing COVID-19 Concerns

This week saw our industry’s first successful union election in the post-Covid era when a Tattersall Distillery and cocktail bar location in Minneapolis overwhelmingly voted to organize. We’ll take a look at the factors that contributed to this, the vulnerability of that particular market and what operators need to pay attention to going forward. And we talk automation with Jamie Richardson, the Vice President of Government & Shareholder Relations for White Castle System, Inc and discuss his companies pending experiment leveraging robots in the back of the house. And we’ll also have a conversation about how a possible Biden Administration may have very different criteria for what responsible corporate engagement looks like than the current administration and what that could mean for brands going forward. We’ll have those stories and wrap it up with the legislative scorecard.