TGI Fridays files for bankruptcy and joins its struggling peers
The American casual restaurant chain TGI Fridays requested Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Saturday, citing a flawed capital structure and…
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Robots can make your fries. Is this the future of fast food?
The Miso Robotics lab in downtown Pasadena is filled with robots from the past and present. There's Sippy, Chippy and…
The Restaurant Lovers' Guide to Choosing a President
We judge presidential candidates by many strange criteria: the style and color of their clothing, their hair, their height; whether…
Why a Michelin-starred chef closed her restaurants for art
It's been more than a year since Minh Phan closed his Los Angeles restaurants, but the refrigerator at his former…
Comment: ChainFest is a fetishization of cheap food for the rich
Hollywood's upper-class elites have found a new way to show they're out of touch. And I fell into it. Chain,…
Premier League fans find their pubs and restaurants in Los Angeles
Adam Johnson became a football fan by accident. During a visit to his family in London, Johnson's brother-in-law presented him…
Otium restaurant workers finally receive their paychecks, but some fall short
After weeks of failing to pay unpaid wages to their former workers, the owners of the now-shuttered Otium distributed checks…
'Mexican culture is corn.' Komal, dough and tortilla maker, opens in Los Angeles
Some of the city's freshest tortillas are bubbling on the griddles at Komal in historic south-central, arriving freshly blistered and…
Workers protest unpaid wages at acclaimed Los Angeles restaurant
Yosselin Cortés, manager of the now-closed Otium, first noticed something was wrong at the celebrated downtown Los Angeles restaurant last…
Teenager killed PnB Rock at Roscoe's. Father sentenced to 31 years to life
A man who sent his 17-year-old son to rob and kill rapper PnB Rock was sentenced Monday to 31 years…