The Daily Populous

Florida chain Pollo Tropical says boosting pay and benefits helped it get to normal staffing levels in the labor shortage.

The Caribbean-food chain is raising prices by up to 6% in December to fund higher labor costs.

Pollo Tropical, a Caribbean-food chain with 169 restaurants in Florida, says it's almost back to normal staffing levels after boosting pay, improving benefits, and giving sign-on bonuses to new staff. »

Speaking at the White House on Monday, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg pushed back on paid family leave being considered just "time off" from employment.

Biden's latest framework excluded paid family leave from the plan, after he originally proposed as much as 12 weeks off for parents.

Buttigieg said the president's Build Back Better plan will be beneficial for families, even if it doesn't include paid family leave. »

And on Thursday night, their lead singer peed directly onto a fan’s face in the middle of their set at the Welcome To Rockville festival in Daytona Beach, Florida.

You can watch graphic video footage of the incident — Brass Against’s pee tape, if you will — below, if that’s what you’re into.

Sophia actually cleaned it up after we left stage — Brass Against (@BrassAgainst) November 13, 2021. »

“I don’t know if you saw it, I just saw the new Bond film, that was great.

And you would like every franchise to be James Bond.

“I go and see a Bond film because there isn’t another one in two months – I’m going to see every Bond film.”. »