Getting paid to eat out sounds like a dream come true.
Now there’s an app for that. For the hassle of booking a meal through reservation app Seated, you can get a reward in the form of Lyft credit for your next ride.
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Grubhub launches amazing map of women-led restaurants across the U.S.
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Grubhub‘s latest food delivery initiative makes ordering takeout a lot more gratifying.
In honor of Women’s History Month in March, the popular delivery service partnered with Women Chefs & Restaurateurs (WCR) — a supportive resource for women in the culinary industry — to launch RestaurantHER, an effort that includes a map highlighting women-led restaurants across the United States.
When users are deciding where to order food or sit down to eat, the map will make it easy to support women in the industry by introducing them to nearby women-led restaurants.
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View More Grubhub launches amazing map of women-led restaurants across the U.S.This Twitter thread explains how Cheesecake Factory became the weirdest restaurant on earth
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If you’ve ever stepped inside a Cheesecake Factory — a restaurant chain found in America’s malls, shopping centers, and suburban landscapes that looks like a pop-up palace built by someone playing Sid Meier’s Civilization wrong — you’ve probably wondered, “How does this exist?”
Well, this Twitter thread has your answer.
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Max Krieger, a Cleveland-based game developer, tweeted a thread explaining the eclectic, bizarre design influences of everyone’s favorite high-calorie mall restaurant. The thread caught on, for obvious reasons — Cheesecake Factory is weird as hell. Read more…
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View More This Twitter thread explains how Cheesecake Factory became the weirdest restaurant on earthGoogle to add restaurant wait times to Google Search and Maps, followed by grocery stores
Google announced today it will soon roll out a new feature to Google Search, followed by Google Maps, that will show you the estimated wait times for area restaurants. The addition is an expansion on Google’s existing feature which shows businesses’ busy times, but with a tweak that helps diners better decide where and when they want to eat. For over a couple of years now, Google… Read More
Coffee, conversation, and community: Inside NYC’s vanished cafeterias
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Image: Marcia Bricker Halperin
One frigid day in February 1975, Marcia Bricker Halperin, a budding street photographer, was shooting storefront windows on Kings Highway in Brooklyn. With her fingers practically frozen to her Pentax, she slipped into a Dubrow’s Cafeteria to defrost.
I took a ticket from the man at the door and found myself looking out at a tableau of amazing faces between the coffee urns and steam tables teeming with choices and the muraled walls under high ceilings with modernist, space-age lighting.
Marcia Bricker Halperin
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