Revel’s Bankruptcy Strategy: Cheap Restaurants and No More Smoking Ban
When faced with bankruptcy, the troubled casino adopts a smoke-'em-if-you-got-'em policy.
When faced with bankruptcy, the troubled casino adopts a smoke-'em-if-you-got-'em policy.
Vesper Club members are now free to blow smoke wherever they want.
Urging members to quit smoking might help the club survive, too.
Food-service workers smoke as much as construction workers and, weirdly, miners!
There's still now word on flying pigs or snowballs in hell.
Plus PA farmers are eligible for emergency drought relief, and Michelle Obama urges restaurateurs to provide more healthy items on kids' menus, all in our morning news roundup.
The Supes have extended the smoking ban to restaurant patios, but not bar patios.
Plus: more farmer's markets come to Chicago this summer, and a British pub owner is jailed for flouting the smoking ban, all in our morning news roundup.
The proposed measure is inciting the ire of at least one candidate for Supervisor.
Smoking is set to be banned within 30 feet of outdoor eating spaces.
• Peet's Coffee won't "enhance" its bid to buy L.A.'s Diedrich Coffee Inc., leaving the way open for Green Mountain to make the purchase. [SF Chronicle] • Michael Bauer thinks restaurants would do well to respond to critical e-mails from...
Tom Colicchio feeds his newborn and Tiger Woods has a favorite breakfast restaurant.
Plus: a teenager sues McDonald's, and where Tiger Woods eats breakfast, all in our morning news roundup.
Bars and restaurants set out "smoking funds" just in case they get busted.
Outdoor smoking may be banned in L.A., while a fake Colonel Sanders pulls a high-profile stunt.
• Foodmaxx pulled Mexican bean pots from its shelves after the ceramics tested high for lead levels. [CoCo Times] • Michael Bauer wants to know: Which restaurant reviewers do you trust — Yelp, Zagat, Michelin, or guys like him? [SF...
Meanwhile, the hot spot is making $20,000 a night.
Sure, O'Connor's and Jimmy's Corner are great, but we have a less obvious suggestion.
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