They Did The Research
When I was a kid, a trip to Krispy Kreme to get a doughnut was a treat for me. Other than the occasional chocolate glazed, I rarely venture outside the original glazed doughnut. One writer at Eat This recruited her family to try 12 different doughnuts at Krispy Kreme and this is what she found.
Reclaiming Culinary Roots
I can attest to the deliciousness of Matthew Raiford’s food. Chef Matthew has done a couple of beer dinners at one of my local haunts here in Savannah. Read his essay on how maintaining a family farm and cooking is reclaiming Black culinary roots.
Hercules! Hercules! Hercules!
Read about Hercules Posey, the enslaved chef who cooked for George Washington at Mount Vernon.
You Smell Good
Scents are a key part of a store’s identity. Where I work, we have scented candles in the restrooms. Guests often ask where we get them, and the answer is The Paris Market. Andrew Adam Newman writes that people stay longer in stores that smell good, even during a pandemic.
Restaurants Pay Tipped Workers $2.13/hr
Did you know that some restaurants pay tipped workers $2.13/hr and the rest of their pay comes from tips? The tipped wage system as “a direct legacy of slavery” that emerged after Emancipation in 1863. One Fair Wage, a restaurant labor advocacy group, is fighting to end what it calls the subminimum wage—the lower tier of federal and state minimum wages for tipped workers—and replace it with a full minimum wage and shared tips.
Have a delicious week,
Nichelle
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