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A debt dispute between a restaurant owner and a criminal ring may be behind a bizarre cockroach attack at the Taipei restaurant Monday night while it was hosting a police gathering, according to Taipei Police Commissioner Chen Jia-chang. Chen said the preliminary findings of the police investigation into the case at G House Taipei suggest that the unusual act may have been directed at the restaurant's owner, who allegedly owes money to the Bamboo Union, an organized crime ring. Chen said the suspects were Bamboo Union members, and that there was no evidence indicating that the cockroach attack was targeted...

Round the Clock Diner made waves this week after the owner reopened the restaurant’s locations in Manchester and Springettsbury 'for dine-in' services, in contravention to the governor’s stay-at-home order.....the yellow phase of reopening does not allow restaurants to operate dine-in services. Despite that, Sacarellos is charging ahead. I think I just follow what’s right,” Sacarellos, who has been in the business for 52 years, said they are keeping the restaurant “very clean” and taking safety protocols, like seating patrons at every other table. Urging Wolf to “let the people open up ,Forget the politics.” “I didn’t back down. I’m still...

A Charlotte, N.C. Mexican restaurant has come under fire over two statues of snoozing Latinos outside the eatery. Local residents are petitioning the owners of Hot Taco, which just opened its doors last week in Charlotte, to remove the two statues of the sleeping mustachioed men wearing sombreros placed at the eatery's front entrance. “This particular image of the dozing Mexican – the quote unquote lazy Mexican – you know is probably one of the most of the popular derogatory images for Latino culture,” Charlotte resident Amalia Deloney, told the Charlotte Observer. “This is something I was certain had been...