by Ty Davison | Mar 14, 2025 | News & Commentary
Texas Senate Bill 379 would ban using SNAP benefits (food stamps) to purchase sodas, sugary drinks, candy, desserts, snacks like potato chips, etc. “According to USDA statistics cited during the hearing, up to 20% of SNAP benefits are spent on foods targeted by this...
by Ty Davison | Mar 26, 2024 | News & Commentary
Salem women’s sports bar Icarus Wings and Things to close: Icarus Wings and Things will close a year after the downtown Salem women’s sports bar opened, the owners have announced. There’s nothing wrong with a bar dedicated to women’s sports, which is...
by Ty Davison | Oct 17, 2023 | News & Commentary
Sweetgreen Hires Kale-Shooting Robots to Speed Up Service – WSJ: The key to shorter lines and higher profits at one restaurant chain: a salad-making robot. Fast-casual chain Sweetgreen in May opened its first restaurant staffed by a proprietary robot that shoots...
by Ty Davison | May 30, 2020 | News & Commentary
Restaurants are barely surviving the pandemic. Delivery apps will kill them: He posted an image of the invoice on Facebook, touching off a rebellion among disgruntled delivery service users and workers. A DoorDash driver posted a screen shot of the $4.75 fee the...
by Ty Davison | May 30, 2020 | News & Commentary
Doordash, GrubHub, UberEats all leave a bad taste. Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage – Margins by Ranjan Roy and Can Duruk: In March 2019 a good friend who owns a few pizza restaurants messaged me (this friend has made appearances in prior Margins’ pieces). For...
