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  • Bread Infographic

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    A London bakery used a loaf of bread as a graph to illustrate the costs of running their business. “The Dusty Knuckle is a ‘purpose-driven’ business: ‘we strive to use our busy operations to help at-risk youth take forward steps in their lives through on-the-job training and mentorship.’ The Insta post says that ‘all the…

  • Eat, Pray, Pay

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    Trader Joe’s: Look, I am not oblivious to the criticism. Are there any updates? Have they gotten better? Googling “Are Trader Joe’s still shitbags?” didn’t yield a lot in the way of results. Even worse, I’ve been carrying around my faux-LL Bean bag everywhere and apparently that’s like, a thing in London? Am I an…

  • The Restaurant of Mistaken Orders

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    A small pop-up restaurant in Tokyo where “no one knows if what you ordered will come out OK.” It is aptly named The Restaurant of Mistaken Orders, and all of the servers taking those orders have dementia. Founded by former news organizer Shiro Oguni, after he stumbled upon Yukio Wada’s group home for dementia care.…

  • Ugly Delicious

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    I chose the wrong career path. As an outsider that is still obsessed with good food (read: I have an unrefined palette), it’s speaking my language. Bourdain is my hero, but he’s far more who I want to be than who I am. From the New York Times: David Chang and his new Netflix series,…