Taxpayer-funded new high-rise for homeless features gym, cafe — and apartments with skyline views
A luxury new high-rise taxpayer-funded homeless shelter with apartments with skyline views, a gym and a cafe is set to open in Los Angeles — and it looks more like a hipster haven than public housing. The 19-story tower will consist of 228 studio and 50 one-bedroom apartments, costing about $600,000 each to build. It […]
Video shows San Francisco residents tackle and hold down thief who tried to steal laptop from woman at cafe
SAN FRANCISCO residents, fed up with rampant crime in the state, are revolting after a man allegedly tried to steal an expensive laptop from a woman at a small cafe. of The incident was revealed Saturday afternoon at Sanaa Cafe on New Montgomery Street near the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. According to witnesses, […]
North Carolina cafe customer, Rhonda Deaver, nailed by $2,000 in credit card charges
A cafe customer in North Carolina lost $2,000 after her favorite diner posted all of her credit card information online for the world to see. After her doctor’s appointment on April 30, Rhonda Deaver visited Smith’s Cafe in Kinston every week to eat at the restaurant, about 130 miles southeast of Raleigh. While driving home, […]
Foxtrot employee forced to kick customers out of store as cafe chain abruptly closes all locations, laying off hundreds on a 2-hour notice
Two weeks’ notice? What if I give you 2 hours’ notice? Two blind Foxtrot Market employees captured the moment they and hundreds of other employees at the popular cafe chain found themselves out of work after the company’s bankruptcy was revealed on Tuesday. “So I just found out that our store will be closing at […]
Blackstone set to purchase Tropical Smoothie Cafe for nearly $2 billion
Former U.S. International Trade Commission Secretary Peter Morisi accused President Biden of being “out of touch” with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin as the U.S. Navy continues its engagement in Yemen. New York City-based private equity firm Blackstone announced Wednesday that it has entered into a deal to acquire Tropical Smoothie Cafe for $2 billion. Blackstone […]
New Orleans Cafe Puts Cicadas on the Menu as Nation Prepares for Onslaught of Trillions
Why not add cicadas as a main dish? That’s the very reality that will be posed in a New Orleans cafe in the coming weeks as the country prepares for the emergence of trillions of noisy insects, numbers not seen in decades or even centuries. This could be a question. AP report The Audubon Insectarium […]
WATCH: 100 huskies cut loose in shopping mall after pet café mishap
A careless employee at a Chinese shopping center caused 100 huskies to escape from a pet cafe and go on a rampage throughout the mall. “All the huskies ran away from the cafe,” one staff member told Xigua Video, adding: “We were very lucky that they were found so early.” Video of the March 12 […]
NYC café dedicated to employees with mental disabilities opens
“I would like to have a job like yours too.” French entrepreneur Yann Boucaille-Lacrezac recalls the day he met Theodore, a boy on the autism spectrum, while on a cruise with the organization he founded for people with special needs. “He came to me and said, ‘I hear you’re my boss, can you give me […]
Michigan server Linsey Boyd fired after receiving $10K tip, but Mason Jar Cafe say it’s a ‘business decision’
start a war. A Michigan waitress who received a hefty tip of $10,000 was fired days later, but the restaurant claimed her termination had nothing to do with the tip and was “purely a business decision.” Mason Jar Cafe in Benton Harbor, located in southern Michigan, canned server Lindsey Boyd a week after an anonymous […]
TX man killed, officer wounded in shooting at central MI café
A Texas man was killed Thursday in a shootout at a Michigan cafe after police were called to a report of a suspicious person. One mid-Michigan police officer was injured in the shooting. The officer who shot and killed the suspect will be placed on administrative leave, according to the Battle Creek Police Department. A […]