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The Return of the American Rail Dining Car

EATER

A New York Times article from 1886 reported that porters could work 37 hours straight, make $16 a month, and have to pay for their own uniforms ($18 a piece) and meals. A Crescent line menu from the 1980s offered wines from vineyards along the route. but I am gonna put more mustard on my sandwich.”

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WARNING: Restaurant Culture In Crisis

Embrace the Suck

What I've been doing the last few years is helping people define their culture before they ever open and create a pathway to creating a vineyard or a garden full of good fruit, or I have to come in and fix a toxic culture. I have guests from the first days of my opening that I still communicate with. Donald Burns: It is.

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