AJC.com -A south Georgia man who spent a night in jail after calling police on a McDonald's employee says he didn't know he was abusing the emergency communications system.

Bigstory.ap.org - An operator of TGI Fridays restaurants in New Jersey has agreed to pay a $500,000 fine for serving customers cheap booze when they paid for top shelf.

Acting Attorney General John Hoffman said Wednesday that the fine levied against Livingston-based Briad Group, as a result of an investigation dubbed Operation Swill, should send a message to every bar and restaurant in the state that customers should always get what they pay for. Continue

Restaurantnews.com - There were only 3,045 more restaurants in the U.S. in Spring 2013 than there were in Spring 2012, according to a recent U.S. restaurant census conducted by The NPD Group, a leading global information company. The total number of U.S. restaurants is now 617,505, a slight .5 percent increase over last year, based on NPD’s Spring 2013 ReCount, which is a count of commercial restaurant locations in the United States compiled in the spring and fall each year. Continue

Dailyjournal.net - A middle Georgia man has been sentenced to life in prison in an armed robbery that to his accomplice's death.

Ronnie Holder of Milledgeville pleaded guilty to charges including armed robbery in Chatham County Superior Court Wednesday.

Authorities have said Holder and an accomplice robbed a Wendy's restaurant on Wilmington Island in late December of 2011. Officials have said they were involved in a shootout with the restaurant's manager after taking an undisclosed amount of cash from an office.

The manager wounded Holder and fatally shot his accomplice as they fled the scene.

District Attorney's spokesman Daniel Baxter says a Wendy's employee who was there the night of the robbery was also arrested on charges of being a party to the crime. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

KWTX.com - A Texas woman is seeking $1 million in damages from a steakhouse that’s known for allowing diners to throw peanut shells on the floor after she says she slipped and fell on the the shells.

Amelia Tijerina says she suffered physical pain, mental anguish and physical impairment after she slipped on the peanut shells scattered across the floor of the Texas Roadhouse. Continue

MySuncoast.com - The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a Bradenton man for the death of popular restaurant manager Taian “Andrew” Tian.

Sarasota County detectives identified the three men who left the New Dynasty restaurant on July 14th without paying for their $35 meal.

Two of the men told detectives that that 20-year-old Juan De Dios Rodriguez of Bradenton threw the punch that knocked Tian to the ground and caused the serious head trauma that led to his death.

Rodriguez is also the man that witnesses described as having a rosary tattoo on his hand. The other two men are considered witnesses in the case. Continue

WVrecord.com - A lawsuit alleging a Long John Silver’s employee suffered burns when he was told to melt ice in a walk-in freezer with hot water has been removed to federal court.

Little Giant Enterprises, the operator of the Long John Silver’s in Charles Town, removed Joshua Shepherd’s lawsuit against it to U.S. District Court for the Northern District on July 8. Records show Shepherd is seeking more than $1 million.

On July 15, the defendants filed their answer to the complaint and a motion to dismiss the individual defendants, while the plaintiff has moved to remand the case back to Jefferson County Circuit Court. Continue

Sun-sentinel.com - Marilyn Monroe may have been the most prominent sex symbol of the last century, but her image cannot be used to promote a highbrow West Palm Beach strip club, her estate argued in a federal lawsuit filed last week.

Monroe's of Palm Beach is infringing on the late actress' trademark by using her name and image in its signs, its Twitter account and its very name, according to the lawsuit filed by the estate of Marilyn Monroe, which is based in New York. Continue

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Restaurantnews.com - Ken Adams has been turning to more part-time workers at his 10 Subway sandwich shops in Michigan to avoid possibly incurring higher health-care costs under the new federal insurance law.

He added approximately 25 part-time workers in May and June as he reduced some employees’ hours and replaced other workers who left. The move showed how efforts by some restaurant owners and other businesses to remake their workforces because of the Affordable Care Act may be turning the country’s labor market into a more part-time workforce. Continue