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Jonathan R. Vaughn
614.464.5672
jrvaughn@vorys.com 

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Restaurants, Food, and Beverage

Vorys provides business and legal counsel to restaurant clients throughout the United States.  We have a multidisciplinary team of attorneys who have considerable experience serving the restaurant industry. 

With deep roots in Ohio, Vorys benefited from early exposure to a large number of innovative and creative restaurant companies that also call the state home. Over the course of several decades, our knowledge and experience within the sector allowed us to grow the practice well beyond Ohio.  We pride ourselves in understanding the restaurant industry almost as well as our clients do. It’s an industry that faces many challenges: the competition for top talent in the face of unprecedented expense reduction pressures, ongoing technology changes, increasingly complex international sourcing and customs requirements, privacy issues, data security needs, and trademark and cyberspace infringements. And, of course, there will always be litigation. As business partners, we are profoundly focused on helping our clients work through these challenges to position their businesses for continued success.

Issues of Recent Focus

• Wage & hour class actions
• Data breach coaching & litigation
• TCPA
• Retail operations (return policies, gift card laws, POS issues, loyalty programs).
• Accessibility 
• Vendor disputes
• Consumer protection
• Supply chain
• Green initiatives
• Strategic communications and crisis management

Key Practice Areas

• Outside general counsel
• Labor & employment
• Litigation
• Retail contracts and licensing
• Real estate
• Information technology
• Privacy and data security
• Advertising and marketing
• Intellectual property
• Employee benefits
• M&A and finance
• Federal, state and local tax
• Franchise
• Bankruptcy

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