New Guide Rates Restaurants on Employees' Wages, Benefits

Ever wonder how your favorite restaurant is treating its servers, cooks and other employees? Find out by downloading a new guide (PDF) that rates 150 of America's most popular eateries on their wage, benefit and promotion practices.

Published by Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, the National Diners' Guide 2012 "lists responsible restaurants where you can eat knowing that your server can afford to pay the rent and your cook isn't working while sick," ROC's website says.

The guide awards points to restaurants that offer workers paid sick days, promote from within and pay at least $5 an hour to workers who get tips and $9 an hour to those who don't.

A few local restaurants in cities that include New York, Los Angeles and Detroit got extremely high ratings. While most national chains are doing little for their workers, fast-food restaurants Five Guys and Chipolte got points for offering paid sick days. P.F. Changs's, Olive Garden, and Red Lobster were among restaurants getting straight "zeroes."

Follow the links above or go to www.rocunited.org to access the full guide.