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PENNSYLVANIA
RESTAURANT & LODGING
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Winter 2017
In its continuing fight to advance and protect the
restaurant industry, the National Restaurant Association
has launched the first-ever Restaurant Law Center.
The Restaurant Law Center, headed by Angelo Amador,
the NRA’s senior vice president and regulatory counsel,
will provide legal advocacy and strategy to the restaurant
industry on cases before state and federal courts that
may threaten restaurant businesses, operators and
employees.
“The restaurant industry has been participating in legal
battles on behalf of restaurant owners and employees
for years,” he said. “But as these fights become more
prevalent, we must have the legal means and an
apparatus to push back against outside groups that
threaten the jobs and economic growth the restaurant
industry creates, as well as to protect and advance the
industry. The Restaurant Law Center will streamline the
industry’s ability to engage in legal proceedings and to
seek just outcomes.”
Jay Stieber, the RLC’s chairman, said the industry must
fight back against well-funded special interest groups
who choose to use the courts to enact policy.
“It is imperative that the second-largest private-sector
employer in the country has its voice heard,” he said.
“Restaurants are America’s job training ground and one
of the few careers that don’t require a four-year college
degree to achieve the American Dream. But restaurants
continue to be threatened by overregulation on the local,
state and federal levels, and by activist judges with little
to no understanding of how our industry works.”
New Law Center Fights
for the Industry
National Restaurant Association Launches Restaurant Law Center