Thirst Meets Hunger? A Sushi Resturant is Sending Shirtless Delivery men to 'Boost' Business

1 month ago

Men walking with advertisement board of food delivery app in Bengaluru goes viral, netizens react

A Bengaluru-based start-up, Swish, came up with an innovative marketing strategy which amused some while drew criticism from others. The marketing campaign carried out in a format of human ads, involved men walking on the city streets carrying illuminated The photo of the men walking with the Netizens React: One of the social media users commented on the post, “This …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

How ‘ideas man’ Sriharsha Majety’s hyperlocal focus put Swiggy on the map

Live Mint

Mumbai: When Swiggy Ltd lists on the stock exchanges on Wednesday, it will mark the culmination of a short journey for Sriharsha Majety, the company’s co-founder. Much like food delivery, Majety and his team eventually managed to bring the investors around within two quarters and raise fresh capital months later. During the initial public offering press conference on 31 October, …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Foodie, bougie and opinionated: Meet Suppa Club’s Asia White

LA Times

Asia White defines herself as an “idea person” — someone with an expansive imagination and a tendency to get overexcited. “It’s like I live several lives in between each of my ideas.” All of her ideas have one thing in common, though: They point back to building community with good food. Last year, she started her “Was it really worth …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Japanese sushi train restaurant opens Beijing outlet

China Daily

Diners order food at Sushiro's Beijing restaurant. CHINA DAILY Sushiro, a popular Japanese sushi train restaurant, opened its first outlet in Beijing at downtown Xidan Joy City on Wednesday, adding to its more than 40 restaurants on the Chinese mainland. "Unlike other restaurants, we launched self-ordering digital screens and the conveyor belt system for food delivery for each table at …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Alexandra Suh: Advocate for Koreatown’s immigrant workers

LA Times

For Alexandra Suh, hot labor summer wasn’t a fleeting trend. Suh, the daughter of Korean immigrants, is executive director of the Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance, a resource center and advocacy group for low-wage immigrant workers in the bustling, diverse neighborhood just west of downtown L.A. See the whole list Koreatown’s remarkably dense food industry runs on the labor of thousands …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

World-famous Sushi Nakazawa launches Hi. Dozo, its first delivery-only sushi operation

LA Times

In late May, Sushi Nakazawa unveiled Hi. Dozo — meaning, “Hi, here you go” — was roughly two years in the making and provides a peek into what Los Angeles can expect when it gets its own Sushi Nakazawa in Beverly Grove later this year. Each currently holds a one-Michelin-star rating, with the global guide calling the omakase “a truly …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Japan has an excess sushi problem. These food waste activists put it in numbers

BBC

Japan has an excess sushi problem. These food waste activists put it in numbers Rachel Nuwer To ensure freshness for customers, Japan's convenience stores discard food before its actual expiration The country's ubiquitous convenience stores throw out huge amounts of edible food. Rachel Nuwer To gauge the problem, Morinaga and her fellow activists count leftover sushi in Tokyo A version …

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7 months ago

Low waste, high-end sushi: How a corporate dive into omakase has changed Chicago's dining scene

Salon

There is no shortage of dining options in Chicago. We felt obligated to provide that for them, and provide that for Chef Kaze and Chef Shinge.” "Because the tiny Omakase Room exists within the larger Sushi-san, it allows Chan and the LEYE team to minimize food waste and service sushi lovers across the budget spectrum." Chan’s 20-year relationship with his …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Celebrity chef rails against frozen meals for Ozempic and Wegovy users

The Independent

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8 months, 1 week ago

A generation after Nobu, Peruvian sushi blooms in Long Beach

LA Times

On a recent Sunday night in Long Beach’s Bixby Knolls neighborhood, chef Eduardo Chang and his wife and business partner, Daiwa Wong, greeted guests at Sushi Nikkei as they filed through the busy dining room to celebrate the restaurant’s two-year anniversary. So we added sushi, because they will recognize that.” Chang and Wong opened their restaurant to share the Japanese-Peruvian …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

The team behind Michelin-recognized Liu’s Cafe opens an ode to modern Korean favorites

LA Times

Danbi A new restaurant from the hospitality group behind Liu’s Cafe is riffing on the classic Koreatown dining experience with galbi-inspired zabuton steak, seafood pancakes littered with bay scallops, and bibimbap packed with uni, marinated shrimp, ikura and edible flowers. 3465 W. 6th St., Los Angeles, danbi-la.com Iki Nori Iki Nori serves cylindrical and conical hand rolls in addition to …

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1 year, 1 month ago

A Japanese chef decodes sushi

Live Mint

Chef Koji Sagawa began working in a restaurant in Tokyo at the age of 18. This week, the 57-year-old chef is in Mumbai for a multi-course omakase-style experience at the contemporary Japanese restaurant Akina in Bandra West. The credit for popularizing it is often attributed to Jiro, a renowned Japanese sushi chef. Hitsumabushi: It is a traditional Nagoya dish featuring …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Mumbai’s sari brand Suta comes to Chennai with a ‘slow’ store and festive launches

The Hindu

When sisters Sujata and Tanya Biswas decided to kickstart an apparel brand, they launched with a collection of simple mulmul sarees that featured vibrant tassels. We wanted them to smell like our grandmother’s saris,” says Sujata of their brand Suta’s maiden collection in 2016. “We think a lot of wearers, especially our younger audience, want an alternative to heavily embroidered …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Will travel for food

Live Mint

It is surreal to learn that American chef, author and TV presenter, Anthony Bourdain hadn’t travelled much at all… until he did. And significantly those at the helm of experimental dining and gourmet restaurants specialising in what some might call ‘high food.’ In that same vein, Masque restaurant has championed ingredient-focussed, culturally rooted food and menus that are often underpinned …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Will travel for food

Live Mint

It is surreal to learn that American chef, author and TV presenter, Anthony Bourdain hadn’t travelled much at all… until he did. And significantly those at the helm of experimental dining and gourmet restaurants specialising in what some might call ‘high food.’ In that same vein, Masque restaurant has championed ingredient-focussed, culturally rooted food and menus that are often underpinned …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Netizens slam nutritionist for criticising people ordering McDonald’s

Hindustan Times

A nutritionist stopped by McDonald’s recently to purchase a bottle of water. Picture of McDonald’s meal shared by the nutritionist. Here’s what X users reacted to the nutritionist post: An individual posted, “Didn’t feel awkward clicking pics like this on someone’s table?” “Why are you waiting for a bottle of water at McDonald’s?” enquired another. To this, the nutritionist replied, …

Water Picture Nutritionist

1 year, 4 months ago

Spam donates 5 truckloads of beloved canned meat in response to Maui fire

CNN

CNN — The makers of Spam, saying that their “special relationship with the Hawaiian community spans decades,” have donated over 264,000 cans to aid the disaster-relief efforts on Maui, the company said in a press release. “Three truckloads of Spam products are on their way to the impacted areas with two more trucks following,” Hormel Foods, the company that owns …

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1 year, 5 months ago

L.A.’s newest omakase is already booking up and marks the return of this second-generation sushi chef

LA Times

Sushi Sonagi With highly limited seatings, a Korean-influenced omakase and the return of second-generation sushi chef Daniel Son, Gardena’s new Sushi Sonagi fills up quickly. “It’s very fulfilling to kind of come full circle.” Sushi Sonagi is open Friday to Sunday with the possibility for Thursday night service in the months to come. The menu is nearly identical to the …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Sushi Chefs Reveal The Markers Of A Good (And Bad) Sushi Restaurant

Huff Post

d3sign via Getty Images Not all sushi restaurants are created equal. “Expertly prepared sushi rice retains its delicate, fluffy texture,” said Hidekazu Tojo, the chef at Tojo’s Restaurant in Vancouver. Seafood Quality “There are several signs that can indicate a good sushi restaurant, including fresh and high-quality ingredients,” Morimoto said. Chef Skill “Skillful sushi chefs can also indicate a good …

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1 year, 7 months ago

What’s ‘super authentic food’ in L.A.? Chef David Kuo’s mega-bodega Fatty Mart looks for the answer

LA Times

Fatty Mart Chef David Kuo’s sprawling neighborhood mega-mart spotlighting L.A. cuisines, brands and small businesses is open in Mar Vista with food stalls, hundreds of grocery items and more to come — including community events, cookbook clubs, demos and a social media-based grocery game show. And what’s the next step of that?” Kuo, the chef behind nearby Taiwanese restaurant Little …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Rashmika trolled for promoting chicken burger

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: Rashmika Mandanna has become the target of trolls, this time for endorsing a chicken burger. Akshay Kumar was trolled for promoting Vimal Elaichi pan masala because he often talks of leading a healthy and lifestyle. For instance, Shah Rukh Khan endorsed the Santro car when it was launched in India but in several interviews, he has said that he …

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1 year, 8 months ago

What makes L.A.’s sushi scene so great? I found answers in Tokyo

LA Times

At a tiny sushi counter in this boundless capital’s southwest suburbs, nine of us sat silent and alert waiting for Koji Kimura to finish readying his lunchtime service. The California roll, the advent of supermarket sushi, the opening of the first local Japanese seafood distributor in 1963, the 1980s economic boom that flooded Los Angeles with Japanese capital, the Hollywood …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Supermarket sushi you’ll actually want to eat

LA Times

I tend to grade supermarket sushi on a curve. At one market, there’s a 30-year veteran sushi chef slicing fresh fish, patting the rice and offering omakase. While most Nijiya Markets carry a similar selection of sushi, there’s a fresh food deli along the north wall of the Torrance store that offers a selection of fresh hand rolls. Aburi salmon …

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1 year, 8 months ago

The secret history of L.A.’s sushi revolution

LA Times

Los Angeles is a sushi city — home to countless restaurants that treat raw fish with the sort of reverence usually reserved for religious rites. It started in Tokyo in 1965, with a meal shared by two friends in the food import business who made an unplanned stop at a sushi house. It was Harry Wolff’s first encounter with the …

Sushi Revolution

1 year, 8 months ago

How Los Angeles became the epicenter of sushi in America

LA Times

The history of sushi in Los Angeles spans decades, a sweeping chronicle of entrepreneurship and a sprawling city’s culinary evolution. Here’s where to find the best supermarket sushi, ultimate California rolls, homestyle futomaki and inari, vegan sushi, sleek hand rolls and the most spectacular omakase in the city. 21 places in L.A. to find the best sushi, omakase, chirashi and …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Tell your friends: ‘I know a dancer who makes the best vegan sushi in L.A.’

LA Times

Growing up in Saitama, Japan, Yoko Hasebe didn’t dream of sushi. “We have so many great vegetables, I want to use the ingredients that are from here,” she says, “instead of having fish shipped from Japan, which is amazing that we can do that, but I think vegetables speak of California.” Entirely plant-based sushi in L.A. has its roots in …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Japanese restaurant offers a bite of spring

China Daily

The hassun, an eight-snack platter, features a variety of spring-inspired dishes, such as fried oysters from Nagasaki, glutinous rice balls and tuna salad. To celebrate the sakura season, Japanese restaurant chain Sushi Yotsuba recently launched a set meal in its Beijing branches. The cheese-baked abalone is another highlight, which features tender abalone paired with creamy avocado, baby corn, asparagus and …

1 year, 9 months ago

Japanese restaurant offers a bite of spring

China Daily

The hassun, an eight-snack platter, features a variety of spring-inspired dishes, such as fried oysters from Nagasaki, glutinous rice balls and tuna salad. To celebrate the sakura season, Japanese restaurant chain Sushi Yotsuba recently launched a set meal in its Beijing branches. The cheese-baked abalone is another highlight, which features tender abalone paired with creamy avocado, baby corn, asparagus and …

1 year, 9 months ago

Japanese restaurant offers a bite of spring

China Daily

The hassun, an eight-snack platter, features a variety of spring-inspired dishes, such as fried oysters from Nagasaki, glutinous rice balls and tuna salad. To celebrate the sakura season, Japanese restaurant chain Sushi Yotsuba recently launched a set meal in its Beijing branches. The cheese-baked abalone is another highlight, which features tender abalone paired with creamy avocado, baby corn, asparagus and …

1 year, 9 months ago

Japanese restaurant offers a bite of spring

China Daily

The hassun, an eight-snack platter, features a variety of spring-inspired dishes, such as fried oysters from Nagasaki, glutinous rice balls and tuna salad. To celebrate the sakura season, Japanese restaurant chain Sushi Yotsuba recently launched a set meal in its Beijing branches. The cheese-baked abalone is another highlight, which features tender abalone paired with creamy avocado, baby corn, asparagus and …

1 year, 11 months ago

Japan firm opens whale meat vending machines to push sales

Associated Press

YOKOHAMA, Japan — A Japanese whaling operator, after struggling for years to promote its products amid protests from conservationists, has found a new way to cultivate clientele and bolster sales: whale meat vending machines. The whale meat supply fell to 6,000 tons in 1986, the year before the moratorium on commercial whaling imposed by the IWC banned the hunting of …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Sushi Can Be Enjoyed In Jain, Vegetarian, And Vegan Options Too: Harry Hakuei Kosato

News 18

Sushi is a traditional Japanese dish that typically consists of vinegared rice combined with other ingredients such as raw fish, seafood, and vegetables. Additionally, many Indian sushi restaurants now offer vegetarian and vegan options, as well as fusion dishes that incorporate Indian flavors into traditional sushi rolls. We get talking to Harry Hakuei Kosato, founder, Sushi and More, Kikkoman India …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Abhay Hanjura of Licious: Meating high expectations

Live Mint

One objective of Abhay Hanjura, when he co-founded meat delivery platform Licious in 2015, was to remove the stigma associated with meat. Ltd, the company he co-founded with Vivek Gupta, has elevated butchers to “meat technicians”, similar to the way barbers have evolved into hair stylists or coffee makers have become baristas. We never looked back.” “Founders, especially,” says Hanjura …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Nakanojo: A knockout menu of light Japanese-Latin plates along London’s King’s Road

The Independent

Sign up to IndyEat's free newsletter for weekly recipes, foodie features and cookbook releases Get our food and drink newsletter for free Get our food and drink newsletter for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. After grilling friendly young staffers for their favourites, we picked out a selection of …

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2 years, 6 months ago

EatFit announces collaboration with wellness and fitness service HRX

Live Mint

EatFit, a health food app has announced its collaboration with Hrithik Roshan-owned wellness and fitness service HRX, to introduce its premium functional food menu to users. The menu is a combination of its food philosophy and HRX's function utility that will provide healthy food options The menu is designed primarily to meet the nutrition needs of the body, and offers …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Coachella 2022: Everything you need to know about the secret sushi bar

LA Times

Salmon with matcha salt and pickled wasabi. Chefs Phillip Frankland Lee and Margarita Kallas-Lee are bringing their restaurant to Coachella with a special pop-up omakase experience. “We’re bringing all of our service ware from the restaurant and playing the same music too.” The speakeasy will be hidden somewhere within the Indio Central Market, the large tented food vendor area the …

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2 years, 10 months ago

At the ultimate Super Bowl party, nearly 2,000 pounds of food are saved from the dumpster

LA Times

Shortly before kickoff on Super Bowl Sunday, the Food Recovery Network helped recover and donate nearly 2,000 pounds of fresh food to two L.A.-area organizations that feed Angelenos in need. More than 2,500 fans of football and food attended Sunday’s Players Tailgate event to sample bites from celebrity chefs such as Guy Fieri, Michael Voltaggio, Nyesha Arrington, Todd English and …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Why Neeraj Chopra Did Not Eat Sushi in Tokyo

News 18

You can’t go to Japan and not have Sushi. So I just stuck to my regular diet," says Neeraj, who created history at the Games claiming India’s first-ever Athletics gold and becoming the country’s only second-ever individual gold medallist at the Games that concluded on Sunday. Gol Gappas is also another cheat meal Chopra has no qualms in indulging in …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Review: L.A.'s next great sushi bar is in Atwater Village

LA Times

Every piece of nigiri shaped by Morihiro Onodera’s hands reminds me to appreciate the humbler beauty beneath the shiny overlay. Onodera — “Mori” or “Mori-san” to the fan base he’s accrued over nearly 40 years in Los Angeles — pays the rice underneath equal respect. You can experience seasonal rarities on mesmerizing pottery at Little Tokyo newcomers Sushi Kaneyoshi and …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Funazushi: The fermented predecessor of modern sushi

BBC

Funazushi: The fermented predecessor of modern sushi Tom Schiller Kitashina’s signature dish is a platter of funazushi made from roe-laden female carp served as fanned slices of the whole fish on a bed of sake lees For the past 18 generations, one family has preserved a 400-year-old recipe showing how sushi once tasted, and it doesn't use raw seafood, but …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Chef Sanjeev Kapoor is Distributing over 10,000 Meals to Healthcare Workers across India amid Covid-19

News 18

The country is battling with a disastrous outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and health care workers on the frontline are putting in an arm and leg to emerge victorious in this battle. In the time of this COVID-19 crisis, Masterchef and philanthropist Sanjeev Kapoor, in a bid to support health care workers, has stepped in to contribute his bit in …

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3 years, 9 months ago

New L.A. restaurant offerings: customizable sushi and Goop for delivery

LA Times

A selection of notable restaurant news from in and around Los Angeles. 3919 W. Riverside Drive, Burbank, 962-3403, yakumi.com The Win~Dow in Silver Lake Venice steakhouse American Beauty operates two casual Win~Dow walk-up stands for smash burgers, fried chicken sandwiches and grain bowls, and now the steakhouse’s takeout- and delivery-only offshoot is heading to Silver Lake. Chef Kim Floresca, previously …

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4 years ago

Help the Hungry: Zero-waste chef Max La Manna helps prepare meals for vulnerable people

The Independent

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Zero-waste chef Max La Manna gave our campaign a culinary …

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4 years, 2 months ago

This Mother-son Duo's Delivery Kitchen is Feeding Thousands of Homeless in Mumbai

News 18

A mother-son duo who ran a tiffin delivery service from Mumbai’s Kandivili turned around their business to help thousands of homeless at a time when the pandemic has left the economy crippled. What started as a tiffin delivery service from the kitchen of Heena Mandavaia’s humble home back in 1999 has today evolved into a successful food delivery unit today …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Crowded sushi restaurant caught with far more guests than allowed during Covid

NL Times

A sushi restaurant in Apeldoorn was ordered closed Friday night for having nearly three times the amount of guests permitted by current coronavirus restrictions. Both the maximum crowd size and the early closing hours were announced by Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Health Minister Hugo de Jonge during a press conference at the end of September to address the exponential …

4 years, 5 months ago

Virus forces catering platform to find new audience, purpose

Associated Press

NEW YORK — When it launched in 2017, the catering tech platform HUNGRY had one customer in mind: well-heeled office workers. “We said, ‘Let’s chip in and figure out how we can do this and help people and help cities out while also keeping the lights on here at home.’” New York City tapped HUNGRY along with some 60 other …

Food Company New York Meals Good Chefs Catering

4 years, 6 months ago

New restaurants start to set up shop

China Daily

The Shoku-tei Sushi restaurant begins operating in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, on June 3, 2020. Koguchi Shiro, one of Shoku-tei Sushi's two head chefs, moved to Shenzhen with his family in January, while the other, Ishida Kazuhiro, planned to arrive at the end of February, but a prolonged journey meant he was unable to start work until late March. "Chef Kazuhiro …

Sushi Restaurant

4 years, 7 months ago

YouTube star KSI joins Independent ‘Help the Hungry’ campaign to distribute food during coronavirus

The Independent

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy British YouTube star KSI has joined The Independent’s campaign to …

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5 years, 1 month ago

Soch Foods: Raising the bar for snacking

The Hindu

A caring young wife’s decision to pack healthy homemade snacks for her husband to take to work spawned a business idea. Executives tend to eat samosas, bhel or vada pav at work, which makes them lethargic,” said Mr. Pugalia, founder and CEO, Soch Foods LLC. Mr. Pugalia decided to share the special nosh his wife prepared for him through Soch …

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Thirst Meets Hunger? A Sushi Resturant is Sending Shirtless Delivery men to 'Boost' Business

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