An initiative on California’s November ballot could significantly increase corporate property taxes. The Working Lunch team takes a look at the new Proposition 13, and how it could impact restaurant operators.

Meanwhile, cities have less flexibility on what to do with waste and more flexibility on how to curb it in the first place. Align Public Strategies discusses what’s going on in the recycling space, how restaurant operators could be impacted, and how they should prepare.

In Philadelphia, as in some west coast cities, what is essentially a local department of labor has been established to handle all workplace issues normally handled at the federal level. The team looks at that trend and why it matters to restaurants, then wraps up the podcast with the weekly legislative scorecard.

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