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Restaurants Harassed for Adding 'COVID-19 Surcharge' to Customer Bills
The cost of meat is going up as the pandemic rages on, but who should foot the bill: restaurants or their customers?
Chicago Now Requires Food Delivery Apps to Disclose Every Single Fee to Users
With dining rooms still closed in most states, many of us are lamenting the sky-high fees of delivery apps—and they aren't helping restaurants, either.
Some Restaurants Will Use Shower Curtains and Mannequins for Social Distancing
Restaurants are still trying to figure out what being 'COVID-19 safe' is going to look like, or if it's even possible. And they're getting creative.
'Packed' Colorado Restaurant Shut Down for Violating State Orders
Colorado's C&C Coffee and Kitchen also had an open-carrying 'bouncer' posted outside the door for its very busy, very illegal Mother's Day service.
More Than 5 Million Restaurant Workers Lost Their Jobs in April
One survey of restaurant operators found that 88 percent had laid off staff due to the coronavirus pandemic and its effects.
Please Enjoy the Absurd Delight of Frog Bread
Finally, quarantine bread baking is getting weirder as people put legs and bulging eyes on their homemade loaves.
New York Restaurant Receives Death Threats Over Sold-Out Dinner Special
"We know that this is a weird time... [but] death threats over Chinese takeout are definitely not the way anyone should be handling any situation, ever."
Hundreds of Texas Restaurants May Already Be Disobeying New Capacity Rules
In a single day, citizens submitted at least 450 'verifiable reports' of restaurants serving at capacities higher than current safety recommendations.
Cholula's Virtual Tacothon Will Raise Money for Small Restaurants
Learn taco recipes from chefs Tom Colicchio, Aarón Sánchez, and other celebrities, and Cholula will donate money to support restaurants.
Hand Sanitizer Should Taste Worse
If you're going to make hand sanitizer, please make it taste like garbage.
A Notorious Grifter Bought an Entire Restaurant With a Fake $400,000 Check
Edward Stahlmann bought Wyatt's Twisted Americana with a cashier's check and immediately "assumed control of the business, its accounts, and proceeds."
$2 Million Worth of Wagyu Beef Is Headed to SF's Food Banks and Hospitals
The massive delivery of fancy beef will be cut into 35,000 steaks—worth $60 each—and distributed to several Bay Area organizations.