by Howard Cannon | Aug 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
OSHA Competent Person: What It Means for Restaurants — and Why It Decides Most Lawsuits Most restaurant OSHA and premises liability cases don’t turn on which specific code got violated. They turn on one recurring finding: no one on shift was actually functioning...
by Howard Cannon | Apr 15, 2026 | Articles, Expert Witness Services, Uncategorized
If you’re in the hospitality industry, you should understand what hospitality is. You should know that hospitality is about relationships. It is devoting the time to take someone’s jacket or pull out someone’s chair. It is asking Mrs. Jones how her child did at...
by Howard Cannon | Mar 20, 2026 | Articles, Expert Witness Services, Hot Coffee Burns, Restaurant OSHA, Uncategorized
Make no mistake about it, restaurants can be very dangerous places for those who are untrained or untrustworthy. And they can be very dangerous places for those who enter establishments where the people in charge (the various levels of management and the owner) are...
by Howard Cannon | Feb 16, 2026 | Articles, Expert Witness Services, Restaurant OSHA, Uncategorized
Shared Space Applies to Your Restaurant Lawsuit! Why? Because OSHA applies to your restaurant Lawsuit! OSHA guidelines play a significant role in almost every kind of restaurant industry incident as it pertains to safety, health, and security, not just those involving...
by Howard Cannon | Feb 12, 2026 | Acts of Violence, Alcohol Liability/DRAM Shop, Articles, Expert Witness Services, Restaurant OSHA, Uncategorized
Restaurants and bars are prime targets for robbery, burglary, theft, murder and other criminal and violent activity – often resulting in injury, harm, and even death to employees and patrons. It is restaurant industry standard to have established written safety...
by Howard Cannon | Jan 29, 2026 | Articles, Expert Witness Services, Restaurant OSHA, Uncategorized
About 15 million people work in the restaurant industry in the United States (that’s 10% of the entire US Workforce!) which makes the industry the second largest employer in the country behind the federal government. But turnover in the restaurant business has...
