A number of former McDonald’s restaurants reopened in Russia with new branding and ownership on Sunday – the as Russia Day was celebrated across the country. The iconic golden arches logo of McDonald’s has been taken down at restaurants across the country, and the sites have reopened as ‘Vkusno i Tochka’, …
Read More »Czech restaurants & pubs open in defiance of Covid-19 rules, owners to launch ‘political movement’ to circumvent restrictions
The protest kicked off on Saturday, with hundreds of restaurants and pubs re-opening on Sunday as they joined the drive launched by the Chcipl PES (Dog is dead) movement. The activist group was founded by several owners of entertainment venues, and the name refers to the Czech system, PES (‘dog’ …
Read More »As officials talk of tighter lockdown, Italian restaurants open their doors in protest (VIDEOS)
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte extended the country’s three-tier coronavirus restrictions on Friday, imposing a nationwide 10pm to 5am curfew until March and forbidding travel between Italy’s 20 regions until February 15. These measures were originally implemented in November, and were set to expire on Friday. For regions classified as …
Read More »Bill Gates says bars and restaurants should ‘sadly’ be closed for 4-6 months, no return to ‘normal’ until 2022
Conceding that by the summer of 2021, the US should be “way closer to normal than we are now,” Gates, who has donated millions to vaccination efforts through his foundation, believes a full return to normal will likely not be possible until after 2022. The billionaire told CNN on Sunday …
Read More »Cuomo reimposes ban on NYC indoor dining despite restaurants pleading it will destroy them
Restaurants in the state’s largest city are forbidden from serving customers indoors as of Monday, the governor announced on Friday during a press conference, blaming rising Covid-19 positive rates and citing guidance from the Centers for Disease Control. At the same time, Cuomo acknowledged New York City has a lower …
Read More »Chicago alderman ran his restaurants as Covid-19 dining SPEAKEASIES while competitors were shut down by governor’s order
After being exposed on Monday in a local blog called Second City Cop, Tunney admitted in a Chicago Sun-Times telephone interview that he had violated the governor’s order by secretly serving a few of his regular customers. “We have, on occasion, sat regular diners in the back of the restaurant,” …
Read More »Boris Johnson announces new 4-week England lockdown – all pubs, restaurants & ‘non-essential’ shops to shut down
“I’m afraid, from Thursday, the basic message is the same: stay at home, protect the NHS, and save lives,” Johnson said. The new restrictions were “far less primitive and less restrictive” than the full-scale lockdown of March and April, he assured. From November 5 to December 2, people in England …
Read More »Yelp’s accusation-based ‘racism warning’ on restaurants encourages mob thuggery in the name of social justice
“Review-bombing” has long been a tactic of social-media intimidation on review sites like Yelp – an angry mob (or a competitor) targets a restaurant’s page by claiming they’ve all found dead cockroaches or hair in their food, or insists a store-owner called them nasty names. To Yelp’s credit, it eventually …
Read More »Mikhalkov runs a chain of restaurants with alcohol from his winery in Italy
Director Nikita Mikhalkov intends to launch a chain of restaurants Dodici Wine & Kitchen, a wine which will come from his winery Tenuta Dodici the Italian Tuscany. About it journalists were told by the managing partner Dodici Alexander Khazov. The format of the restaurants will be replicated through the sale …
Read More »Potatoes collected for soldiers ATO, sold in one of Kiev restaurants
This is evidenced by a note in the bag.In one of Kyiv’s restaurants brought a bag of potatoes, which were collected by the children with teachers one of the schools in the Rivne region, and it was appointed Ukrainian soldiers in the Donbass. This was written by the cook of …
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