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Soho House, Explained

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The rooftop pool at Soho House New York. Photo: Soho House The hospitality brand is growing its restaurant empire — and you’re allowed in Earlier this month, Soho House’s newest members-only club opened in Portland, Oregon. The pair’s first date apparently happened at the Soho House London location.) It is one-of-a-kind.

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Soho House, Explained

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The rooftop pool at Soho House New York. Photo: Soho House The hospitality brand is growing its restaurant empire — and you’re allowed in Earlier this month, Soho House’s newest members-only club opened in Portland, Oregon. The pair’s first date apparently happened at the Soho House London location.) It is one-of-a-kind.

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Farmworkers Finally Won Overtime Pay. Now the Industry Wants to Repeal It.

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But many farmworker and labor advocates saw this as rolling back the hard-won right to overtime, and perpetuating the inequalities long baked into the laws for farmworkers. It followed in the footsteps of California, the first state to end the exemption in 2016, while Colorado, New York, and Oregon have followed suit with similar laws.

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Will Tipping at Restaurants Make Sense in a COVID-19 World?

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Excluding the back-of-house workers is one of the problems with tipping. These workers usually don’t get to enjoy the tips and it creates tension between back and front-of-house workers instead of promoting teamwork. Tipping at restaurants has always been a contreversial issue. an hour, the federal minimum wage.

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Why Restaurant Mortgages and Rent Payments Are Still Expensive

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However, even with a retail mortgage delinquency rate of 18% as of June, prices are not falling very much. The explanation is that the federal government is supporting real estate prices. Mostly into supporting real estate prices. This year, the government has already printed $2.6 Where has that stimulus gone? Flag of the U.S.

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Remaining Relevant in the Age of Digital Disruption

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In the early days of delivery apps (UberEats only launched in Australia in 2016 in the wake of Foodora’s exit from the marketplace), the emphasis was on developing alternate revenue streams for established restaurants, cafes and takeaways, but a new phenomenon is taking over – Ghost kitchens.

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Will Nepal produce more specialty coffee in the future?

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It’s believed that in 1938, nomadic hermit Hira Giri brought coffee seeds from Burma (now known as Myanmar) back to Nepal. Nepal is a small landlocked country in South Asia, which sits between India and Tibet. Primarily a tea-growing and drinking nation, coffee production is still relatively new to Nepal. tonnes of coffee.