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Ongoing Series Columnist Jenn Harris joins your favorite celebrities to explore their go-to cuisines and restaurants in Los Angeles. “My mom will walk in with like a shirt with rhinestones on it that says ‘bada bing,’” says Blanco. And this place.” Spicy BBQ is the first stop on Blanco’s crawl, or as he calls it, “bang bang,” to some of …

FORT WORTH, Texas — Beef was at the heart of Texas long before there was a Texas. A drover moves longhorn steers back to their stable after a cattle drive through the Stockyards National Historic District in Forth Worth, Texas, Friday, April 21, 2023. Miguel Vidal shows off his cow tattoo at his restaurant, Valentina's Tex Mex BBQ, in between …

Restaurant with ‘tips are a privilege’ policy sparks intense backlash on Twitter and Facebook

Park’s BBQ wasn’t the first Korean barbecue restaurant to open in Los Angeles, not by a long shot. In fact, in 2004, a year after Park’s BBQ opened, Jonathan Gold wrote in L.A. Weekly that there were “a reputed 850 places to eat and drink” in Los Angeles’ Koreatown. “Park’s BBQ is the ultramodern palace of high-end meats that changed …

First Starbucks, then Amazon, now a Korean BBQ restaurant union. Wage workers know they deserve more

Steven Chung, a former head waiter at Genwa Korean BBQ, poses for a portrait on the same street as the restaurant in Los Angeles in July 2019. And now, as my colleague Jeong Park reports, Genwa’s workers have created what may be the first union ever at a Korean barbecue restaurant. The only thing standing between tyranny of a workplace …

A Korean BBQ restaurant now has a union. Supermarkets may be next

Rebecca Nathan helped organize her former colleagues after she left Genwa. “They have this co-ethnic employee-employer relationship that often undermines the workers’ ability to express their grievances and report abuses,” said Chanchanit Martorell, executive director of the Thai Community Development Center. “We now look forward to the opportunity to work together with the California Restaurant and Retail Workers Union to …

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Oklahoma tourism agency ends contract with BBQ restaurant

OKLAHOMA CITY — A lucrative deal that allowed an Oklahoma barbecue restaurateur to have the state subsidize more than $2 million in operational losses at new state park restaurants is being terminated due to “suspected fraudulent activity,” the state’s tourism department said Monday. “The department is also exploring options to recover any taxpayer dollars paid to the operator for services …

Four Killed, 47 Injured in Gas Explosion At Chinese BBQ Restaurant

At least four people were killed and 47 others injured in a gas explosion on Thursday at a restaurant in Shenyang, the capital of northeastern China’s Liaoning province, local authorities said. I was almost blown away,” said the owner of a nearby noodle restaurant, who was about 50 meters away from the scene of the explosion on his way to …