Americans returning to restaurants might notice something different: a bigger bill.  Rising costs of ingredients and basic supplies as well as a nationwide labor shortage are throttling restaurants just as they begin to fully reopen and ramp up for a bustling summer season.  Alan Natkiel, the owner of Georgia’s Northside in Concord, New Hampshire, took...Read More

Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson is asking the United States Supreme Court to review the $2 billion verdict against it in favor of women who said the company’s talc products contain asbestos and can cause ovarian cancer. The nation’s high court could say as soon as Tuesday whether it will involve itself. The case features...Read More

Florida is threatening to slap cruise lines with tens of thousands of dollars in fines for requiring passengers to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination — uncomfortably wedging the sector between a federal mandate and the state’s sensibility. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a law earlier this month that banned bars, schools, restaurants and other businesses...Read More

Meat lovers are paying through the nose for their favorite cuts — and a raging trucker shortage is increasingly to blame, The Post has learned. The cost of a summer BBQ starring boneless ribeye steak, for example, cost an average of $12.37 a pound last week, up from $9.75 the prior week, according to the...Read More

Most of the women running the biggest US companies saw their pay increase last year, even as the pandemic hammered the economy and many of their businesses. Despite those gains, however, the median pay for female chief executives actually fell in 2020. Already a small group, they saw several high-profile women leave their ranks last...Read More

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is reversing course and considering shaking up its governance structure in the wake of the billionaire couple’s divorce — and amid revelations about Bill Gates’ workplace behavior and that of his associates.  In a U-turn from its previous stance, the foundation, which is controlled by the Gateses and Warren...Read More

As COVID-19 ravaged the world last year, CEOs’ big pay packages seemed to be under as much threat as everything else. Fortunately for those CEOs, many had boards of directors willing to see the pandemic as an extraordinary event beyond their control. Across the country, boards made changes to the intricate formulas that determine their...Read More

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is expected to pay a fine and change some business practices to settle an antitrust case with the French government over its online advertising business, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. France’s Competition Authority has alleged that Google’s advertising tool DoubleClick, which online publishers use to sell ad space, gave an...Read More

Workers in states that are scrapping the extra $300-a-week in federal unemployment benefits started searching for jobs on the day their states announced the moves, according to a new report. On the day states said they would end the checks, which critics say are making it hard for businesses to hire workers as they struggle...Read More

British cops who were searching for a pot farm ended up uncovering a bitcoin mining operation that was illegally stealing electricity.  Officers from the West Midlands police say they found a huge bank of around 100 computers trying to create cryptocurrency at a site they had been told was a marijuana farm outside Birmingham on...Read More