Ready to Lead the AI Shift? Join RTN’s AI Workforce Compliance Workgroup
Your AI scheduling tool might be making decisions you can't legally defend.
Agentic AI is here. It is already being used to schedule shifts, optimize labor, and make workforce decisions at scale across the restaurant industry. And most organizations have no idea whether those models are discriminating — or how they would prove it if challenged.
This is not a hypothetical risk. It is a cost, legal, and compliance exposure that grows every day these models run without governance frameworks around them. The question is not whether AI will reshape restaurant workforce management. It already is. The question is: how do we manage these models responsibly?
This workgroup brings together the people who need to answer that question: HR leaders who understand employment law and workforce equity, Legal teams who understand the liability landscape, Technology teams who build and deploy these systems, and AI governance experts who can help the industry build the right guardrails. Together, we will define the standards and practices that let the industry benefit from agentic AI without the legal and ethical landmines.
Because the cost of getting this wrong — in lawsuits, in fines, in reputational damage, in harm to workers — is far greater than the cost of getting it right.
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WHAT ARE RTN WORKGROUPS?
RTN Workgroups are collaborative, hands-on working groups built to tackle the restaurant industry's toughest technical challenges and create open technology standards. Designed with a focus on real, action-oriented solutions—less talking, more building—participants work side by side to develop universal frameworks, API specs, and best practices that eliminate friction across the entire tech ecosystem.
While these virtual 1-hour sessions run bi-weekly over a 6 to 12-month lifecycle, the ultimate goal is simple: publish an official industry deliverable, standard, or tool.
Every published output features permanent "Key Contributor Badges" to credit participants for their leadership—and those honored as Key Contributors are invited to take the stage and speak when RTN rolls out the final deliverable to the broader industry.
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?
Participation is open to ALL restaurant operators—no RTN membership is required! However, to protect the candid, sensitive nature of our operator discussions, technology and solution providers must be active RTN Members to attend.
INTERESTED IN MEMBERSHIP?
Not a member yet or want to explore joining? Reach out to Tammy Hanson, Membership Experience Manager, at [email protected] to get started.