Look up an employer. Follow the case, the reported findings and the money agreed to pay. Keep
the legal names—and the limits—visible.
U.S. Department of Labor · WHDObserved 2026-09-16
Food services and drinking places · findings ending 2023–2025 · 6,615 cases in this collection
Agreed to pay is not proof of payment. This is a defined subset of concluded federal
investigations, including cases with zero recorded violations. It is not an employer safety score
or a complete history of every business.
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The full official ZIP was scanned: 367,890 source rows
across 8 CSV files. This collection selects findings ending 2023-01-01–2025-12-31, industry-code prefixes 722. No
case-close dates are provided by this source.
Findings dates are not investigation dates. They describe the period where WHD
determined findings occurred, including findings of no violation. They do not establish when a
case opened, closed or became public.
Groups match exact reported legal names only. No punctuation, case, franchise
or parent-company merging is applied. Names are not unique corporate identifiers. Different entities
can share a name, and a single entity can appear under several spellings. Cases without a legal
name stay separate. Multiple cases in a group do not by themselves establish the statutory repeat-violator
designation.
Back wages are the source’s total agreed-to-pay amount, not verified recoveries or today’s
outstanding balance. Penalties use the source’s total monetary-assessment field, not a sum
of overlapping statute amounts. Employees agreed to pay and employees employed in violation
are different counts; adding case counts does not deduplicate people across investigations.
DOL changed violation-count collection on October 1, 2025. Counts from cases loaded before
and after that date are not directly comparable. The load date is an internal source
field—not the case-close date. We show case-level counts, but do not rank employers or plot
trends by summed violation counts.
Map counts use reported employer states and state-label anchors, not geocoded workplaces or
employee homes. Territories/unmapped states remain in totals. Regional pay links share
geography only; they do not explain enforcement or demonstrate causation. Source street
addresses and ZIP codes are not republished here.
Source quality: 954 full-archive rows have
no findings-end date and cannot enter a date-defined slice; 1 have findings-end dates after capture. Any reversed date ranges within the
slice are disclosed on their case cards. Missing money/counts remain unknown, not zero.