NY Post:
What's eating this restaurant owner? Vadim Ponorovsky, the owner of Paradou, a restaurant in the Meatpacking district, bashed his staff in a profanity-laced e-mail tirade aimed at getting them motivated to collect e-mail addr (Read More)
Gawker:
To make the point that he is not the asshole that his Glengarry Glenn Ross-ish email made him sound like ("you bunch of fucking children"), restaurant owner Vadim Poronosky called to scream at us. After we posted the emai (Read More)
Gawker:
Times are tough, and people are sat at home chewing bellybutton fluff instead of eating out or ordering in. What are restaurant owners doing? Some are not paying staff, and others are sending abusive emails calling them "fuck (Read More)
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog:
In all our time covering the labor disputes that are increasingly becoming par for the course at New York City restaurants (just today there was the case of kitchen workers suing Mama Mexico), most of the cases arose when (Read More)
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog:
from Grub Street Boston Wondering if your restaurant plans for the evening would be animal-rights-activist approved? A new database from the World Society for the Protection of Animals IDs restaurants in fifteen citie (Read More)
NY Post:
New York state’s labor commissioner says more than 200 workers at 25 Brooklyn restaurants have been underpaid a total of $912,000. Commissioner M. Patricia Smith said Thursday that 16 investigators made unannounced visits in (Read More)
WalletPop Blog:
Filed under: Bargain BabeGet discounted certificates to your favorite restaurants -- or give them as gifts -- through Restaurant.com. The online site usually sells a $25 certificate for $10, but with this 70% off code a $25 c (Read More)
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog:
Marc Murphy believes that having to give his employees nine days in paid sick leave will cost him almost $200,000 per year, but the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York went before the New York City Council on Tues (Read More)
NY Post:
A Manhattan-based group supporting Palestinian rights in the bitterly contested West Bank of Israel is turning its sights on the New York Mets after the organization agreed to host a fund-raising dinner at it’s Caesar’s Club (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Style:
NEW YORK -- "The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt," by T.J. Stiles, won the $10,000 National Book Award for Nonfiction on Wednesday night at a dinner at a restaurant on Wall Street.
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Gawker:
The new McDonald's in Chelsea is much improved. Not the food, dummy: The ambience. It's the first in America to undergo what the AP calls "a sleek, European-style makeover". Come, let us explore this wonderful place. The firs (Read More)
Gawker:
The new McDonald's in Chelsea is much improved. Not the food, dummy: The ambience. This location is the first in America to undergo what the AP calls "a sleek, European-style makeover". Come, let us explore this wonderful pla (Read More)
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog:
He should've called in sick. Restaurateurs are seemingly sick at the thought of health-care reform. A couple of days ago Nation’s Restaurant News reported that the National Restaurant Association opposed certain provisions (Read More)
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog:
from Grub Street Los Angeles Jon Shook Animal was closed last night for a "world's strongest beer" event (Sam Adams' Utopia, 27 percent alcohol). Before the suds scrambled anyone's thoughts, chef Jon Shook denied Eater (Read More)
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog:
Allen & Delancey owner Dick Friedberg has told us his version of things, and it’s not surprising that Ryan Skeen doesn’t exactly agree. The chef tells us that, contrary to Friedberg’s assertion that he wasn’t in the kitch (Read More)
WalletPop Blog:
Filed under: Credit, Technology, Credit ReportsAccording to a data mining company, the old adage of being judged by the friends you keep translates easily into the digital friends you keep. Rapleaf, a social media monitoring (Read More)
Google News: Hamburg:
TOP HOTELNordafrika in HamburgTagesspiegelDoch der, der es wirklich wurde, kommt aus Hamburg. Von Bernd Matthies Berlin - Wahabi Nouri vom Restaurant Piment, der sich sich erfolgreich darum bemüht, ...: Wahabi Nouri - der bes (Read More)
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog:
• A Subway shop will open on top of a crane at the Freedom Tower construction site to serve hungry workers. [NYP]• An antitrust investigator is looking into New York's dairy farmers to find out why, despite unusually low mil (Read More)
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog:
The bold-name sightings at Nello have not slowed down: This week, Jay-Z made a triumphant return to the Upper East Side haunt with world-champ third baseman Alex Rodriguez, who's usually more of a Serafina celebrity, by h (Read More)
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog:
Heated outdoor seating in Paris, where everything is more civilized. On November 25, Connolly’s, the summer lifeguard and surfer hang in the basement of a Victorian hotel in Rockaway Park, will ever so briefly reopen for T (Read More)