Tag Archives: restaurants

Afternoon View – Porky’s BBQ Shack

When Father Tony and I drive to Key West, one of our traditions is to stop off in Marathon for lunch at Porky’s BBQ Shack, a ramshackle open-air joint where customers often arrive by boat. The rafters of the place are papered with hundreds of dollar bills autographed by the patrons. Next stop, Island House.

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PENNSYLVANIA: Restaurant Loses Battle Over Church Bulletin Discount Offer

Last July the American Family Association screeched when an atheist group complained about a Pennsylvania restaurant that offered a discount to patrons who brought in that Sunday’s church bulletin. AFA founder Don Wildmon sent out this message to his followers: After reading this story, I urge you to join with other Christian leaders in opposing efforts to take away our …

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NEW YORK CITY: Philly Gay Couple To Reopen Tavern On The Green

Crain’s New York Business profiles the well-connected Philadelphia gay couple who will re-open Central Park’s legendary Tavern On The Green, which closed in bankruptcy in 2009 after almost 75 years in business. Philadelphia restaurateurs Jim Caiola and David Salama celebrated this summer when they were selected by the Bloomberg administration over several local heavyweights to run Tavern on the Green. …

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Morning View – Microsoft Times Square

Microsoft’s pop-up store in Times Square opened in late October to launch the Surface tablet.  Planet Hollywood occupied that corner for years but closed in June in order to split the space between a smaller version of itself and the Orlando-based Buca di Beppo, which next spring will join Applebee’s, Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Ruby Tuesday, Chevys, TGI Friday’s, and …

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Top Ten Hipster Neighborhoods

So says Forbes Magazine. The San Francisco-based startup Nextdoor.com helped us dig through data on more than 250 neighborhoods in the biggest U.S. cities. We assessed each area’s walkability according to Walkscore.com; the number of neighborhood coffee shops per capita (with some help from NPD Group’s report); the assortment of local food trucks (and their ranking according to Zagat’s); the …

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Chick-Fil-A Still Mum On News

Chick-Fil-A has become a top trending topic on Twitter today following yesterday’s claim by a Chicago alderman that the fast food chain has agreed to stop donating to anti-gay causes. That claim has been picked up by virtually every news outlet in the nation, but the chain has not yet confirmed the story and continued today with its usual Twitter …

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Pity This Canadian Chicken Chain

Canada’s Chick-Felays, which has four locations in Ontario, is getting complaints from customers who mistake it for Chick-Fil-A, which currently only has outlets in the United States. “It shocks me that people would ask ‘How can you discriminate?’ How could you think that? We’re brown people,” chuckled [CEO Nabeel] Khan, who has found humour in the angry customers’ outbursts. Now, …

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New Chick-Fil-Ad

Naughty language.

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Eat Mor (Gay-Friendly) Chikin

Opportunism? Corporate pandering? Just good business? From their Facebook page: Help us support Marriage Equality. Throughout the month of August, we will donate $1.00 from every purchase of a Schnipper’s Chicken Filet Sandwich to Marriage Equality USA (a non-profit whose mission is to secure legally recognized civil marriage equality for all). A truly good Chicken Filet Sandwich would always be …

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NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn Demands Apology From Chick-Fil-A, Calls For Closing City’s Only Franchise

Openly gay NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn is bucking the lead of her boss Mayor Bloomberg, who yesterday said that he would not stand in the way of Chick-Fil-A opening new franchises in the five boroughs. Via press release from the City Council: City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn responded today to Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy’s recent anti-gay remarks, stating …

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We’ll Get Blamed For This

TMZ reports: A key member of the Chick-fil-A public relations department died of a heart attack this morning … this in the middle of the biggest PR crisis the fast food chain has ever faced. Chick-fil-A released a statement saying, “We are saddened to report the news to you that our dear friend Don Perry, vice president of public relations, …

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VIDEO: Tell Chick-Fil-A To “Cluck Off”

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Fischer: Big Gay Is Coming For Chick-Fil-A

“There is plenty of hate in the debate over same-sex marriage, but it’s not coming from the pro-family community, for the simple reason that disagreement is not hatred. But there is a volcanic level of vitriol and venom that spews like magma from the darkened hearts of homosexual activists. Chick-fil-A is about to find out what it is like to …

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PENNSYLVANIA: Atheist Files Complaint About Restaurant Discount For Christians

This morning the American Family Association email-blasted its members with a link to a Friendly Atheist story about a Pennsylvania man who filed a complaint with the state after seeing the above discount offer. AFA founder Don Wildmon writes: After reading this story, I urge you to join with other Christian leaders in opposing efforts to take away our religious …

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Chick-Fil-A CEO Dan Cathy: We Are Guilty As Charged Of Supporting Hate Groups

“Well, guilty as charged. We are very much supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that. We intend to stay the course. We know that it might not be popular with everyone, but thank …

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NEW YORK: Bloomberg Claims Victory With New Study On His Trans Fats Ban

Five years ago NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered the Department of Health to ban trans fats in all city restaurants. It was the first such edict by any American city. Yesterday a city-funded study reported that the ban is having a dramatic effect on the amount of trans fats consumed by diners. A new analysis of thousands of lunch receipts, …

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Wingnuts Love Denny’s Ad

Business Insider reports: Denny’s new ad for the Midwestern Meat & Potatoes Sandwich is drawing exuberant praise from conservatives for a line about how “the right to bear arms” is one of the things that makes America great. “Kids,” a father in the commercial asks, “Do you know what it is that makes this country great?” He’s referring to the …

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100% Bacon Burger

The Slater’s 50/50 chain has launched a 100% ground bacon burger. Which comes with a slice of bacon, just because. It bears the Simpsons-esque name, The ‘Merica Burger.

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