Welcome to your daily briefing on hospitality developments in North Dakota. Today we're covering 7 key stories including updates on north dakota hospitality headlines, background & context. Let's dive in.
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The Environmental Health Division has published its most recent inspection reports for licensed facilities.
ND hospitality operators can review current inspection outcomes to benchmark their own compliance standards.
The two most recent inspection reports for licensed facilities are accessible through the inspection search page maintained by Food and Lodging.
ND hospitality operators can review inspection records to benchmark their own compliance and stay informed about regulatory standards.
Anyone intending to sell alcoholic beverages at retail in North Dakota must obtain a license from the Attorney General by submitting required application forms.
Hospitality professionals operating bars, restaurants, or retail stores in ND must secure this license before legally selling alcohol to customers.
The North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services has outlined the steps for starting a food business in a downloadable PDF and on its website.
Hospitality professionals in ND considering new ventures or expansions can use this official resource to navigate regulatory requirements and licensing procedures.
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Federal FLSA permits tip-credit on wages only for employees who customarily and regularly receive tips, and only for the time spent on tip-producing duties. Many states (and the federal "80/20" rule) limit how much side-work can be performed while paying tip-credit wage. Polishing silverware for an hour at the start of shift is the most common silent violation.
Wage-and-hour collective actions in restaurants frequently win on the side-work issue and produce back-pay liability across all tipped staff in the lookback period.
Short-term rental platforms collect and remit local occupancy tax in some jurisdictions and not others — the same platform may handle it for one city and not the next over. Hosts who assume the platform handles all tax obligations frequently owe state or local tax that was never withheld.
Tax authorities are increasingly using platform data to identify hosts; back-tax assessments in this category routinely run multi-year and include penalties.
The merchant — the restaurant or hotel — remains responsible for PCI compliance regardless of the POS vendor's certifications. Vendor compliance covers the software; merchant responsibility covers network segmentation, employee access, and incident response. "We use a PCI-compliant POS" is not an audit response.
Card-brand fines after a breach apply to the merchant, not the vendor. Self-assessment questionnaires are required annually and are reviewed by acquiring banks.
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