Bars and Restaurants

Bars and restaurants operate on thin margins, with high staff turnover, irregular working hours and constant, direct contact with consumers. In this environment, small routine lapses tend to turn into labor liabilities, regulatory fines or reputational exposure. Mendes has served the sector for years, across businesses of different sizes, tailoring its advice to the reality of each venue, from independent establishments to multi-unit groups.

The work focuses on preventing and managing labor risk, including working-hour models, shift schedules and collective bargaining; corporate structuring of groups and the opening of new units; commercial leases, supply agreements and partnerships; the tax classification of operations; and responding to consumer claims and administrative inspections.