21.   Any legalization plan would be part of an expanded guest-worker program to meet labor shortages claimed by farmers to restaurant owners.

22.   As a former restaurant owner, he knows employers are often fined despite their good faith.

23.   As the board was preparing to vote, restaurant owners were in state Supreme Court in White Plains seeking to block it from acting.

24.   As with many other businesses, restaurant servers are fleeing to dot-coms, say general managers and restaurant owners.

25.   ASCAP spokesmen said they have tried to sit down with the restaurant owners but have been rebuffed.

26.   Assemblyman Peter J. Abbate Jr., a Democrat from Brooklyn who sponsored the legislation, said he hoped that the Legislature would address the concerns of restaurant owners.

27.   At the end of August, a restaurant owner dies in a car accident.

28.   At some restaurants, the greeters are former restaurant owners who want to fulfill a need to be around people.

29.   Back in Tangjin, shopkeepers and restaurant owners and pool-hall managers complained that their businesses had suffered drastically.

30.   Beer wholesalers did the same thing that week, and restaurant owners were in a few weeks earlier.