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In This Time of Social Change, Can a Brand Also Be an Ally?

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McDonald’s restaurant workers walk off the job to demand higher wages and union rights in 2016. I will not pretend to understand the weight of the years of injustice and inequality that our Black friends and colleagues have experienced,” Taco Bell’s CEO Mark King wrote in an open letter. Photo by David McNew/Getty Images.

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Does It Get Better For the Indie Fine Dining Restaurant?

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Chef Russell Jackson opened the fine dining restaurant Reverence in Harlem just months before the pandemic began. When his New York City restaurant, Reverence, opened in August 2019, guests could sit at the U-shaped chef’s counter beneath 14-foot ceilings. Chef Russell Jackson was tired. Honestly,” he said, “I’m broken.”.