September 8, 2023

Bump Williams Consulting: Consumers Paying +$4 More for Beer in 2023 versus 2019

Source: https://www.brewbound.com/ Zoe Licata September 6, 2023 The average case price for beer in grocery stores has increased +16.7% since 2019, with consumers now paying more than $4 more in 2023 than they were pre-pandemic, according to Bump Williams Consulting (BWC) founder Bump Williams in his monthly industry update. The beer category has now “priced…

Restaurant association offers alternative to ending subminimum wage for tipped workers

Impose stiff fines on restaurants that don’t pay the difference when their subminimum wage workers don’t make enough in tips to reach the $15.80 minimum wage, restaurant association chief suggests. By  Fran Spielman Updated Sept 6, 2023, 6:50pm CDT The Illinois Restaurant Association is trying a different approach in a long-shot bid to discourage the Chicago City…