Six individuals have filed lawsuits against a North Carolina restaurant after 200 individuals from 6 separate states were confirmed to have contracted salmonella. One person, Jen Hames, died from an unrelated condition but was confirmed to have had salmonella poisoning. The Tarheel Q restaurant in Davidson County has since reopened after an extensive cleaning process. One employee, who was hospitalised along with 5 others, said “It sure didn’t take much for the restaurant owners to redeem themselves.”

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If you work as a server, it can be hard to understand the ups and downs of your tips. Unless you have a great memory and can keep a spreadsheet up to date on a daily basis, you may not realise what day and on which week you make the bulk of your tips. There’s now an app from Waiters Today that lets you keep track easily. Waiters Today is a social media platform for servers, so not only can you track your tips with their app, you can also discuss your findings with fellow servers.

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