Employees Behaving Badly
As someone who has had a pizza dropped on my lap—and then picked up and served to
me—by a staffer at a DC Cosi, I say, it’s about time the dwindling lunch chain’s CEO
said something about its service. [Grub Street] —Ann Limpert
Groupon sales rep threatens merchant with flood of bad Yelp reviews; gets (rightly)
fired. [All Things D] —Sophie Gilbert
These Things Exist . . . Why?
Gawker asks the question on every summer vacationer’s mind: “What is it with tourism
and fudge?” [Gawker] —Anna
Spiegel
The
Guardian’s
Jay Rayner calls the Negroni “foul.” Well, we can’t all have sophisticated palates. [The Guardian] —SG
I’m pretty sure you could combine pot with any food and stoners wouldn’t complain,
but this is almost too perfect a match. [Huffington Post] —Chris Campbell
Mysteries Unraveled
James Surowiecki looks at the reasons—many of them psychological—that retail and restaurant lobster
prices haven’t dropped alongside the shellfish’s plummeting wholesale prices. Fun
fact: Lobsters were once so sneered at in colonial New England that servants often
forbade employers to feed it to them more than three times a week. [New Yorker] —AL
This BuzzFeed article has everything: a
Breaking Bad-themed design concept,
David Chang dropping F-bombs, 1920s Chinese advertisements. I’m not sure what just happened to
me, but you probably want it to happen to you too. [BuzzFeed]
—Jessica Voelker
Avocados, like airplane seats, are 30 percent smaller than they used to be. [NPR] —SG
Duh.
The city slickers from New York have figured out what we already knew: Our nearby
hamlet of Frederick serves up some pretty tasty dishes. [NYT] —CC
The State of Affairs at State Fairs
State fair survival is all about selling deep-fried novelties. [WSJ] —JV
I’m just glad this list of outrageous (read: disgusting) state fair food didn’t include
anything from my home state of Kentucky. I was expecting the worst. [The Atlantic] —CC
Less Food Porn, More Food Zen
Via Eater, here’s a set of Flickr photos from Food for Thought that let you dine vicariously
at the dreamy Willows Inn. [Flickr] —JV
Big Scores
More cronut news: Creator
Dominique Ansel has scored a cookbook deal. No word on whether it’s a ho-nut if you make it at home.
[Eater] —SG
Congrats,
Pete Wells! You just got an $80,000 raise. Slate writer
L.V. Anderson thinks employers should pay restaurant critics more money—but make them spend their
salaries when they dine out. [Slate] —JV
Prince wins every food award this week just for incorporating Dave Chappelle and pancakes
into his cover art. [Grantland] —CC
Getting Goofy
Band names based on food, from A to Z. [Fox] —SG
Restaurant rebranding is always a tricky proposition. Especially so if you’re
Masaharu Morimoto and Eater has given your original concept the dreaded (and absolutely hilarious) “cat
treatment.” [Eater]
—AS
