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The staff at a North Miami juice bar and restaurant received a big—and very much appreciated—surprise on New Year’s Day. According to Miami Herald, employees of the family-owned Miami Squeeze received a whopping $2,021 tip from a regular customer. The outlet reports the woman stopped by the eatery on Friday morning and ordered her usual breakfast as well […]
Making it as a restaurant in some of Canada’s biggest foodie cities on a good year requires hustle, timing, that secret sauce, and a ton of luck. Add a global pandemic to the mix, and circumstances instead served newly minted restaurants with much of the opposite: public lockdowns (meaning no on-site patrons and a switch to […]
The general manager of a Staten Island bar has been arrested after violating COVID-19 health orders, allegedly reopening the bar, and hitting a sheriff’s deputy with his car. NBC New York reports that deputies tried to apprehend 34-year-old Danny Presti after midnight on Sunday after witnessing customers access Mac’s Public House through a neighboring empty […]
A waitress in Texas was surprised when a patron left her a $2,000 tip, but she was even more stunned to discover that the restaurant wouldn’t be giving her any of the money. Emily Bauer had only been working at the Red Hook Seafood and Bar in San Antonio for about two weeks when she was scheduled for a busy […]
Los Angeles County announced Sunday that outdoor dining will be suspended for at least three weeks starting Wednesday amid an alarming spike in COVID-19 cases in California. According to KTLA, county officials warned that a halt in outdoor dining would be necessary if the five-day average number of coronavirus cases exceeded 4,000. On Sunday, that number […]
On Sunday night the COVID-19 pandemic continued wreaking havoc on the service industry (in addition to wreaking havoc on lots of other things, obviously) by being the alleged force driving yet another dining chain into bankruptcy. The latest business to pin its inability to pay back creditors on the coronavirus is Friendly’s, a chain of East […]
Rashiq Zahid has shared a web app today indicating which McDonald’s locations in the United States have a working ice cream machine. Zahid, a 24-year-old software engineer, was able to do this by reverse-engineering McDonald’s ordering API. The app, which is titled McBroken, is dependent on each location actively updating the status of their ice cream machine. […]
A report from Vice regarding the timing of McDonald’s partnerships with Travis Scott and J Balvin has received a response from the popular fast food company. The Vice report cites two historians, Marcia Chatelain, and Chin Jou, who spoke on the company’s history regarding race, with the piece suggesting the partnership was launched in response to […]
Social media has once again given us an example of why dry snitching is a cardinal sin. A worker at the Taco Boy in Charleston, South Carolina was fired after tweeting about tampering with local councilman Harry Griffin’s order. “Harry Griffin came to my restaurant tonight I asked the kitchen to put bleach on his food but I […]
In the wake of their largest American franchisee declaring bankruptcy, Pizza Hut will be closing down nearly 300 of their restaurants in the U.S. This grim news, which had previously been forecasted, comes after NPC International filed for Chapter 11 last month. On Monday, an announcement was made in which it was said that Yum! […]
