http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/restaurant/ en-us Sat, 5 Jul 2008 16:00:03 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041118/posts BEIRUT (Reuters) - At "Buns and Guns" you can order a "Kalashnikov" sandwich from a bullet-shaped menu, prepared by chefs in military fatigues with the roar of explosions as background music. This new fast food restaurant in Beirut's southern suburbs, where the Hezbollah movement holds sway, was the brainchild of co-owner Ali Hammoud. He said the war theme was a novel concept that had nothing to do with Lebanon's bloody recent history. BEIRUT (Reuters) - At "Buns and Guns" you can order a "Kalashnikov" sandwich from a bullet-shaped menu, prepared by chefs in military fatigues with the roar of explosions... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041118/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 16:00:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2037265/posts In an era of McNuggets and McChicken sandwiches, this bird brings new meaning to the term “fast food.” (A brown hen has taken up residence outside a McDonald’s in Temecula and, try as they might, neither the employees nor the customers can catch her.) That’s like a dog hanging out in front of a Chinese restaurant in Peking. Sure everything seems OK, until they catch you. Next thing you know, you’re the number 12, extra spicy, on the menu. (It has been almost four months... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2037265/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:41:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028860/posts I think Dianne Feinstein is definitely the less insane of my state’s Senators. She’s actually seeing a government-run program that’s losing money hand over fist (and has been for years–this isn’t just a Democrat thing, it’s a government thing) and releasing it into the private sector: “It’s cratering,” she said of the restaurant system. “Candidly, I don’t think the taxpayers should be subsidizing something that doesn’t need to be. There are parts of government that can be run like a business and should be run like businesses.” Of course, ideology quickly came into play, because many of Feinstein’s fellow Dems... MichelleMalkin.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028860/posts#comment Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:22:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019811/posts A city centre was evacuated today after two bombs were found - at least one of which exploded - at a busy lunchtime cafe. A man, who is believed to have set off the explosive device, was injured and has been taken into custody. At least one of the devices was believed to be a nail bomb. The Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall, Stephen Otter, said tonight: "We can now confirm there were two explosive devices found at the scene." He said they were both in the same area of the Giraffe restaurant at the Princesshay shopping centre, in... Evening Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019811/posts#comment Thu, 22 May 2008 18:37:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2016294/posts Restaurants are feeling the pinch in two directions. With money tight, consumers are cutting back on how often they dine out. Meantime, food costs more. Way more. Egg prices have doubled in the last six months. Dairy, chicken, beer and bread crumb prices are all climbing higher. Even when the core commodity escapes the trend, packaged ingredients and other restaurant supplies are more expensive as the costs of transportation climb due to higher fuel prices. When people do go out, they are ordering less. "Appetizer sales are down. Dessert sales can almost disappear," says Dan Simons, principal at Vucurevich Simons... Walletpop http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2016294/posts#comment Thu, 15 May 2008 13:27:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002768/posts CLEVELAND (AP) -- Federal immigration authorities raided seven Mexican restaurants in four states Wednesday, arresting 56 people, including 11 accused of conspiring to harbor illegal immigrants. The immigrants were primarily undocumented Mexicans forced to staff the restaurants for long hours with little pay to work off smuggling fees and rent, authorities said. Ten individuals were arrested in Mentor and Willoughby in northeast Ohio, at Jalapeno Loco Mexican Restaurant and two houses, said Greg Palmore, spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Two face charges of conspiring to harbor illegal immigrants and the rest face immigration violations. The arrests began at... blog.cleveland.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002768/posts#comment Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:07:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995304/posts Afghanistan to Ask NATO for Bigger Army Afghan officials will go to the NATO summit in Romania Thursday with a request: pay to increase our national Army by 40 percent. A bigger Army, Afghan officials argue, will allow the US and other coalition members to scale back in the coming years. This appeal comes amid pleas from the US and Canada for other NATO members to commit more to the Afghanistan mission, which many analysts say has floundered over the past year for lack of resources and a coherent strategy. France is expected to contribute another 1,000 forces and... Previous Thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995304/posts#comment Wed, 2 Apr 2008 03:13:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1997254/posts The restaurant spreads before you, six steps below ground: sawdust floors, lines of people, painted menus and neon beer signs on the walls. The lines--at peak hours there are 10 of them, each up to 20 people long--weave between the tables where scores of others are eating, oblivious to the crush. Pick a line and wait your turn. When you reach the counter, you don't need to consult the menu on the wall, of course. You've been here before. You make it short and snappy--"Beef, double dip. Coleslaw, blueberry pie, coffee." This is Philippe the Original, an L.A. institution that... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1997254/posts#comment Sat, 5 Apr 2008 19:06:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987299/posts The Saudi vice police stormed a food court at a shopping mall, and told families to leave because there were no partitions to separate families from one another, press reports said on Sunday. According to the Saudi edition of Al-Hayat newspaper, members of the Commission for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice stormed the dining area at the Granada Shopping Center, causing panic among people eating there. "They made no distinction between men, women, or children. They started pulling chairs out from under everyone," one eyewitness told the paper on condition of anonymity. "I don't know why they... Al-Arabiya http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987299/posts#comment Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:18:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1978403/posts It’s a diner’s worst nightmare: biting into your food to find hair stuffed inside. That’s what happened to a West Bend, Wisconsin man after he returned his steak for being overcooked. The worst part is the customer didn’t want to return the steak, but the manager insisted. Three bites into it, the customer knew something was terribly wrong. It was in the kitchen of the Texas Roadhouse in West Bend where the unthinkable happened. Cook Mike Perkins says he witnessed fellow cook Ryan Kropp put body hairs in a customer’s steak, all because, Perkins claims, Kropp had to cook the... KALB - TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1978403/posts#comment Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:27:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910548/posts WASHINGTON, Oct. 12, 2007 – A South Carolina-based troop-support group and a national restaurant chain have teamed up to see that at least 500,000 servicemembers get a note of thanks this holiday season. Brian Bohlman (left), a chaplain with the South Carolina Air National Guard, visits with Army Cpl. Brandon Schadrie in September 2006, during his deployment to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. Bohlman, who founded Operation Thank You, a troop-support group, shares notes of support his organization collected from people back home for deployed servicemembers. Photo by Thomas Warner, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center Public Affairs  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution... America Supports You http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910548/posts#comment Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:58:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1910157/posts Many years ago on a long back country hike I was following a winding trail that loosely traced the path of an old creek. Every mile or so, the path would cross the creek and I’d get another chance to wade through the cool mountain water. I’d been hiking that trail since sunrise and had crossed the creek at least thirty times. It was getting late in the day and some angry looking clouds were rolling toward me overhead. I could hear cracks of thunder in the distance. It wasn’t easy to see the sky through the thick canopy of... human intelligence http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1910157/posts#comment Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:52:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1864168/posts Chinese cat lovers mobilized online to save a truck load of cats from the cooking pot, a newspaper reported Tuesday. Veteran Shanghai cat rescuer Duo Zirong started off her mission of deliverance on Friday when she called police to stop a truck stuffed with some 800 live cats, the China Daily said. The standoff happened at a parking lot in a southern suburb of Shanghai. It continued for hours while cat lovers spread word of the incident online, eventually raising $1,320 in donations to buy the whole load. They now hope to place them in homes after posting their pictures... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1864168/posts#comment Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:51:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1837921/posts LOS ANGELES, May 22 (UPI) -- A Los Angeles waitress faces multiple identity theft charges for allegedly stealing customers' credit card numbers. Jonathan Diamond of the city attorney's office said April DuBoise, who worked at the Hamburger Hamlet restaurant for six weeks, has been charged with nine identity theft and fraud-related counts along with five counts of grand theft, The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday. The Los Angeles city attorney's office said DuBoise took at least six credit card numbers using her position at the restaurant and may have taken as many as 40. The office said $16,300 in unauthorized... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1837921/posts#comment Tue, 22 May 2007 18:04:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1832133/posts If O.J. Simpson tries to legally pursue the restaurant owner who banned him from his place, the Goldman family will have his back. Kentucky restaurant owner Jeff Ruby was on "The Big Show With Steve Mason & John Ireland" on ESPN Radio last night, saying, "I got a phone call from the Goldman lawyers, and he's not going to be able to do this lawsuit anyway, because they've already taken preemptive action in case there is a claim." Ruby says any money Simpson might win would go to the Goldmans, who would then give it back to Ruby. Simpson's attorney,... TMZ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1832133/posts#comment Fri, 11 May 2007 19:18:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1753298/posts A man was fatally shot Wednesday evening in southwest Houston while eating crawfish at a Cajun restaurant, the Houston Police Department said. The 29-year-old man was seated while eating in the Cajun Kitchen at 11900 Bellaire around 9 p.m. when two men entered and shot him in the head, police said. The owner of the restaurant chased the suspects and fired several shots at the gunmen before they escaped. The victim was taken to Ben Taub Hospital where he was pronounced dead. His identity is pending verification by the Harris County Medical Examiner's Office. The Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1753298/posts#comment Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:56:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1751045/posts "Polonium" Restaurant Capitalizes on Ex-KGB Spy Case Business: 5 December 2006, Tuesday. The owners of a restaurant in northern England are having their hands full these days, unexpectedly capitalizing on the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. The reason for the rising popularity of the establishment in Sheffield is in its name - "The Polonium Restaurant". Ever since word broke that the former Russian spy was poisoned with radioactive polonium-210, the place has been fully packed. The Polish owner say the place was not named after the radioactive stuff, but a Polish folk band he played in some 30... novinite http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1751045/posts#comment Sat, 9 Dec 2006 21:02:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1702094/posts CHARLOTTE -- A University-area restaurant employee was treated for minor injuries following an explosion Wednesday night. An employee of the Thai House, in the Grand Promenade shopping center, stayed after hours to do some cleaning and the explosion was triggered when the employee set off 20 aerosol pesticide defoggers too close to the pilot light of a gas stove. “When it was contacted by the pilot lights on the gas equipment, it caused sort of a spontaneous explosion,” said property manager Mark Hanna. Firefighters at Station 27, which is within walking distance of the restaurant, say they felt the explosion.... News 14 Carolina http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1702094/posts#comment Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:09:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1700695/posts After finishing dinner at a Connecticut restaurant, two diners got more than a butter mint when a waiter, apparently miffed by a $2 to $3 tip left on a $50 check, attacked them with a knife. They only suffered minor injuries, but no doubt tipped much better after that. While violent cases of waiter rage are rare, the 1989 incident points to waiters' sticky reliance on tips for income. In some states, restaurants are only legally required to pay as little as $2 or $3 an hour. So if a server earns $30 in tips on a bad night, he... WTNH http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1700695/posts#comment Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:06:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1695562/posts Hundreds of Chechens forced to flee Russian town as restaurant brawl erupts into race riot · Xenophobic groups use fight to urge ethnic attacks· Minorities targeted in internet campaign Tom Parfitt in Moscow Tuesday September 5, 2006 The Guardian UK Several hundred Chechens and dark-skinned people from the Caucasus have been forced to flee a town in north-west Russia after a brawl in a restaurant prompted a race riot at the weekend. The exodus of minorities from Kondopoga in the Karelia region near the border with Finland follows events on Saturday when a mob rampaged through the town and burned... The Guardian (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1695562/posts#comment Tue, 5 Sep 2006 03:19:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1694365/posts See for example this thread first. This story is making the rounds-- A restaurant fined, on these grounds: Instead of just bread A live cockroach, instead Now THAT's how you lose a few "pounds"! grey_whiskers http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1694365/posts#comment Sat, 2 Sep 2006 14:24:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1687007/posts WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 2006 – Over the past two and a half years, about 500 severely wounded servicemembers and their families have enjoyed 5,000 free dinners out on the town thanks to Hal Koster and Marty O’Brien. “Some of them have come to multiple dinners because some of them are here for years,” Koster said Aug. 18, as he looked over the 60 or so guests dining on the rooftop of The Exchange restaurant here. About 20 servicemembers, many in wheelchairs and prosthetics, family members and other guests dined overlooking a panoramic view of the U.S. Capitol, and the Washington... America Supports You http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1687007/posts#comment Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:31:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685911/posts Restaurant Robbery Foiled By Gun-Packing Customer August 18, 2006 INDIANAPOLIS -- An armed customer foiled a robbery at a fast-food restaurant on Indianapolis west side on Thursday afternoon, according to Indianapolis police. Police said William McMiller Jr., 40, ordered a bucket of chicken before demanding money from a cashier and threatening to shoot at the KFC in the 2800 block of West 16th Street. Police said the clerk didn't understand what McMiller wanted and thought he was asking for a refund. Investigators said McMiller repeated his demand two more times before the clerk reached for money. Investigators said that when... The Indy Channel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685911/posts#comment Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:03:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1652743/posts Editor's Note: This article was widely circulated on China's internet websites. We believe it will provide our readers an insight into the mindset in China. I remember the host on a program about animal rights saying, "Please take care of our animals. It will be good for everyone." However, some Chinese don't think about the animals when eating meat. They dare to eat anything but aren't aware that what they are eating may actually be harmful to them. Ah Chang, who has worked in the restaurant industry for many years in China, has witnessed the use of all kinds of... Epoch Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1652743/posts#comment Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:45:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1650680/posts I am taking a possible client to dinner, and would like a reaonably priced place. What about Oasis Cafe? What other places can you recommend? Thanks. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1650680/posts#comment Fri, 16 Jun 2006 18:55:31 GMT