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The Best Restaurants in Chicago
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The Best Restaurants in Chicago

In the Where to Eat: 25 Best series, we’re highlighting our favorite restaurants in cities across the United States. These lists will be updated as restaurants close and open, and as we find new gems to recommend. As always, we pay for all of our meals and don’t accept free items.Logan SquareRamenAkahoshi Ramen might be the country’s highest-profile restaurant whose chef earned his bona fides on Reddit. The chef and owner, Mike Satinover, was studying in Japan when a bowl of miso ramen in Hokkaido drove him down a path of obsession. For the next decade, Mr. Satinover fastidiously published his ramen research and recipes on the internet forum Reddit, attracting a legion of fans, including established ramen chefs. He brought that viral momentum into this brick-and-mortar restaurant, where r...
California’s Fast-Food Casualties – WSJ
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California’s Fast-Food Casualties – WSJ

California’s $20 an hour minimum wage for fast-food workers doesn’t take effect until April, but the casualties are already piling up. Pizza Hut franchises this week told more than 1,200 delivery drivers that they’ll lose their jobs before the higher wage kicks in. Gov. Gavin Newsom no doubt sends condolences, though what he should send is an apology. Democrats in Sacramento this autumn enacted the $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers in a deal between restaurants and labor unions. When you’ve got a gun pointed at your head, you’ll hand over your wallet, keys and bank account pin number.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Council Bluffs Convention and Visitors Bureau receives grant funding for 2024
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Council Bluffs Convention and Visitors Bureau receives grant funding for 2024

Pottawattamie County, Council Bluffs receive $20,000 in grant money Updated: 10:21 PM CST Dec 23, 2023 Council Bluffs Convention and Visitors Bureau received a $10,000 grant for its winter travel marketing initiative.Pottawattamie Tourism Committee also received $10,000. They'll use the funding to redesign its tourism website.The grants came from the Iowa Tourism Office. The organization received 77 tourism grant applications seeking nearly $640,000 in funding. They ended up giving $398,000 to 45 organizations."Dating back to the summer of 2020, the Council Bluffs CBV has leaned into digital marketing in a big way to draw visitors to the city and count...
A Trip to CosMc’s, McDonald’s New Space-Themed Takeout Chain
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A Trip to CosMc’s, McDonald’s New Space-Themed Takeout Chain

By Heather Haddon | Photography by Lucy Hewett for The Wall Street Journal BOLINGBROOK, Ill.—CosMc’s has landed, but visiting now may take a few eons.McDonald’s new restaurant concept is drawing long lines of curiosity seekers since it opened in this Chicago suburb last weekend. The space-themed brand is the fast-food giant’s first new U.S. restaurant concept in its more than 60-year history, designed to deliver a beverage-heavy menu through takeout-focused locations built with multiple drive-throughs.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Choice Hotels Launches Hostile Bid for Wyndham
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Choice Hotels Launches Hostile Bid for Wyndham

Updated Dec. 12, 2023 7:05 am ETChoice Hotels is launching a hostile takeover offer for Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, after repeatedly being rebuffed in its effort to strike a friendly deal.Choice on Tuesday unveiled what is called an exchange offer for Wyndham stock, appealing directly to its rival’s shareholders.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Chicken Nuggets in Reusable Bowls? McDonald’s Isn’t Lovin’ It
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Chicken Nuggets in Reusable Bowls? McDonald’s Isn’t Lovin’ It

PARIS—A McDonald’s on a buzzy boulevard here offers a glimpse of what the future of serving fast food could look like. The burger giant doesn’t like what it sees.For those dining in, french fries are served in durable red containers, soda is dispensed into clear washable glasses and chicken nuggets come in hard plastic white bowls. When customers are finished eating, they are asked to drop the containers into a bin to be washed, dried and reused.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Searching for CosMc’s: Investors, Consumers Look for Details on New McDonald’s Brand
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Searching for CosMc’s: Investors, Consumers Look for Details on New McDonald’s Brand

Investors and diners are on the lookout for an orange, fast-food-loving alien, and what he may mean for the future of McDonald’s. CosMc is the name of the character, who has featured in past McDonald’s ads, and it is also the name of a new restaurant concept that McDonald’s executives have teased in recent months. In July, the company described it as a smaller-scale restaurant, with locations soon to open in a handful of areas. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Airbnb Appoints Ellie Mertz as New Chief Financial Officer
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Airbnb Appoints Ellie Mertz as New Chief Financial Officer

Airbnb on Tuesday appointed Ellie Mertz, an 11-year veteran of the short-term rental company, as its new chief financial officer.Mertz succeeds Dave Stephenson, Airbnb’s CFO since 2019, who was promoted to become the company’s chief business officer, a newly created role.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8