TITA SMITH 25 SEPTEMBER 2019 DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA Australian study has found  one in six teens consumes 5.2kgs of sugar in drinks Cancer Council research found boys and low socio-economic areas more prone Since findings, they have called on the federal government to implement a tax There are new calls to introduce a sugar tax of 20 per cent after a survey revealed Australian teenagers are consuming staggering amounts each year. A study of 9,000 youths found one in six guzzle a minimum of 5.2kg of sugar yearly through sweetened beverages alone. The Cancer Council Australia’s National Secondary Student’s Diet and Activity survey found boys are the biggest consumers of sugary drinks, with 22 per cent ingesting over a litre per week.) About 11 per cent of girls drank the same amount, while youngsters from low socio-economic areas were more likely to consume higher quantities.   Cancer Council Nutrition expert Clare…

JOE MCDONALD, Sep 24, 2019AP BUSINESS WRITER China plans to join governments that are imposing controls on tobacco liquid and additives for e-cigarettes amid rising concern about deaths and illnesses blamed on vaping, a state news agency said Tuesday. Rules due out as early as next month also will cover e-cigarette devices and packaging, the China News Service said, citing unidentified sources at the State Tobacco Monopoly. The monopoly didn’t immediately respond to requests by phone for more details. India banned sales of e-cigarettes this month and regulators in the United States and other countries are imposing controls following a surge in deaths and illnesses blamed on vaping. Makers of e-cigarettes including Juul Labs Inc. have promoted them as being safer than standard cigarettes, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says no vaping product has been reviewed and found to be less harmful than traditional tobacco products. China is…

David Marin-Guzman Sep 24, 2019AFR Sunglass Hut has promised to back pay hundreds of workers more than $2.3 million after underpaying staff across the country for several years. The retailer has admitted it failed to pay overtime to 620 current and former part-time workers between 2010 and 2016 because it made no written agreement with them defining their regular hours and days, as required by the retail award. Fair Work Ombudsman Sandra Parker says companies should see the outcome with Sunglass Hut as a “warning”. Paul Jeffers However, the Fair Work Ombudsman has decided not to seek penalties against Sunglass Hut after the company agreed to pay a “contrition” payment of $50,000. The case is the latest in a series of million-dollar underpayments revealed by major companies in the past 12 months, including Super Retail Group and George Calombaris’ Made Establishment. Sunglass Hut’s underpayments occurred at 253 stores across every…

EWIN HANNAN SEPTEMBER 17, 2019 The Australian The Fair Work Ombudsman has taken legal action against the operator of a Coffee Club outlet in Victoria, alleging it underpaid two young workers more than $15,000 and provided false records to cover up the rip off. The action is against Edison Peng and his company JMSL Pty Ltd, which owns and operates the Coffee Club franchise outlet at the Westfield Geelong shopping centre. It is the second time the FWO has taken legal action against a Coffee Club franchisee. In 2017, a court imposed more than $180,000 against a former Coffee Club cafe franchisee in Brisbane for contraventions including requiring an overseas worker to pay back $18,000 of his wages through an unlawful cashback payment. In the new action, it is alleged the two young employees were paid flat rates as low as $15 per hour, which resulted in underpayment of junior…

09/16/2019 CSNews ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an emergency executive action to prohibit the sale of flavored electronic cigarettes in New York. Following this action on Sept. 15, state Department of Health (DOH) Commissioner Howard Zucker will hold an emergency meeting with the Public Health and Health Planning Council (PHHPC) this week on the pending ban. In addition, Cuomo directed the New York State Police and DOH to immediately partner to ramp up enforcement efforts against retailers who sell to underage youth, with the possibility of criminal penalties.  The governor will also advance legislation to ban deceptive marketing of e-cigarettes to teens and children.  “New York is confronting this crisis head-on and today we are taking another nation-leading step to combat a public health emergency,” Cuomo said. “Manufacturers of fruit and candy-flavored e-cigarettes are intentionally and recklessly targeting young people, and today we’re taking action to put an end to it.  “At the same time, unscrupulous stores are knowingly selling vaping products to underage youth — those retailers…

The Spoon September 2019 From self-service kiosks to mobile apps to dedicated pickup shelves and portals, there’s no end to new tech trying to speed up the order-pay-collect process for customers at QSRs. But if the last week has made anything clear, it’s that while those pieces certainly play a role in the future of the restaurant, the drive thru is still the most important area of growth — at least for fast-food. Even as Minneapolis tries to ban drive thrus, companies are pumping enormous amounts of money and energy into improving this area, most notably with last week’s news that McDonald’s, king of all QSRs, had acquired voice-tech company Apprente. It’s the second acquisition Mickey D’s has made in 2019 of a technology company whose offerings can speed up lagging drive-thru lines and move more customers in less time. In March, the mega chain acquired a company called Dynamic…