#food-businesses

#food-businesses

There's a mild, wheaty aroma wafting from the host stand at the Midtown Manhattan pasta restaurant Jupiter.It's not from the pasta.An herbaceous, vegetal smell fills the bathrooms at Horses, a high-end bistro in Los Angeles.It's not from vegetables.And that intense, buttery scent suffusing the journalist Emma Specter's apartment in Austin, Texas?

Way back in 2019, news broke that the iconic Alder Street food cart pod, between 9th and 10th, would transform into Portland's first Ritz-Carlton location.At that point, most of the focus was on the food carts within that pod, where they would move in particular.But as its opening date approaches, more information about the Ritz-Carlton has emerged - particularly, that the new building will dedicate a significant portion of its real estate to food businesses.

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12:28 A.M. ET - Suspect has been found off campus; they are confirmed dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.MSU Police spokesperson Chris Rozman confirmed there were three fatalities and five injured.Active Shooter status has now ended.

Golden State shoppers are shelling out extreme prices for eggs, amid an outbreak of bird flu that has killed millions of hens and left local grocers struggling to stock cartons that comply with California law."I literally just came from another store, because they were out," said Princess Hodges, 23, who managed to snag an 18-pack at Food4Less in West Adams after striking out at a nearby Ralphs.

Up to a quarter of a million jobs would be lost in a bloodbath on the high street if the government doesn't extend its support on energy bills, an industry chief has warned.The fragile industry is already struggling with its own version of long covid and many businesses will not survive another economic shock, Kate Nicholls, the chief executive of UK Hospitality said.

José Andrés - the celebrated Washington, D.C. chef with restaurants around the country -is going to host a keynote session at this year's South by Southwest (SXSW).The chef will be talking about his and his team's work at World Central Kitchen, his nonprofit that travels to areas of distress with the purpose of feeding people.

Metro Morning's food guide Suresh Doss joins the program every week to discuss one of the many great GTA eateries he's discovered.This week, he's bringing us to Rose Kebab in North York.Below is a lightly edited transcript of Doss's conversation with Metro Morning host Ismaila Alfa.Ismaila: So we're heading out for some kebabs today?

After 10 years in business, Green Zebra Grocery will serve its last kombucha Zlurpee this month.The Portland-based grocery-meets-convenience store chain will shut down operations in March, closing all three of its stores on March 31."We have been holding on by a thread since the pandemic started and have been in austerity mode since then," says Lisa Sedlar, Green Zebra Founder and CEO, in a press release.

Seven food businesses on the Upper West Side were burglarized within the same 24-hour period, the West Side Rag reports.Businesses affected include cupcake spot Billy's Bakery, seafood shack Luke's Lobster, and chain Joe Coffee, which were hit sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning.The incident follows other struggles neighborhood businesses have faced over the last year.

Bagels have been on the menu at Lincoln Square's Baker Miller since veterans Dave and Megan Miller opened the bakery a decade ago.Their popularity soared so much that the Millers created a separate Miller Bagel Instagram handle in 2015 to reserve the name, just in case they decided to one day open a deli.

Dylan Lemay had worked at Cold Stone Creamery for eight years before he started posting on TikTok in early 2020, motivated by a friend's goal of becoming "TikTok famous."Through POV-style videos of himself decorating ice cream cakes and tossing balls of ice cream into the air, he became the platform's top food and beverage creator by the end of 2021.