Silver & Freedman's Food Services & Hospitality Group, one of the few of its kind, provides full-service representation to businesses in the restaurant and hospitality industry -- from wage and hour audits to ADA issues to dealing with sales tax and the new FACTA legislation, just to name a few. Our strengths lie in our dynamic ability to provide counsel and representation in a wide variety of capacities. Our goal is to serve as your outside "general counsel," which is the type of representation most desired by our Food Service & Hospitality clients.
By representing a myriad of restaurants for many years, we can help you learn what you don't know on topics such as:
Employment & Labor
- Do your managers need to be paid overtime?
- Are you doing everything you can to identify and prevent sexual harassment?
- Are your employees receiving all of their meal and rest periods?
Business & Tax
- Do you need to pay sales tax on your service charges?
- Who can be included in a tip pool?
- Do you really want investors?
- What is your best choice of legal entity?
Franchise & Intellectual Property
- What is in a name? How are you protecting your intellectual property?
- Are you an accidental franchise?
- Are you protecting your trademarks?
- Commercial & ADA Litigation
- Are your bathrooms ADA compliant?
- What constitutes a service animal?
FACTA & Proposition 65
- Do your receipts comply with FACTA?
- What are the facts on Prop 65?
- Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC) Compliance & Enforcement
- Are your employees trained on the laws governing this heavily regulated industry?
- Will you know how to protect yourself against administrative or enforcement actions?
Real Estate
- Can your lease be restructured?
- How can you protect yourself in the sale and/or financing of your business?
Industry Clients
Silver & Freedman represents hundreds of fine-dining, casual, steakhouse, diner and fast food restaurants, along with hotels, card club casinos, and other hospitality-related clients, in all of their legal needs.
Foodservice & Hospitality Roundtable
Every year we are proud to sponsor our prestigious Foodservice & Hospitality Roundtable, covering several hot topics near and dear to the hearts of our restaurant owners. Our 2011 event was titled "Now Serving Success: Taking Your Concept to the Next Level." Please
click here for a slideshow of our event.