Few restaurant owners are speaking out, but several kitchens around the D.C. region are filled with anxiety over the Trump administration’s stepped up enforcement of immigration policies.

Rumors about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids at schools and restaurants around the area have, to this point, not been substantiated.

But industry leaders said it’s yet another concern that restaurant operators are trying to deal with during one of the slower periods that businesses face.

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Featured prominently on the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington‘s homepage is a link to a page that focuses just on immigration and what restaurants need to know. It includes information not just about what should happen if an ICE agent does show up, but some of the administrative preparations that restaurants should be thinking about too.

In fact, a lot of that was the topic of a webinar between the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington and several members on Wednesday.

“We talked about preparing for possible increases in I-9 and Department of Labor audits,” said Shawn...

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