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The Independent Restaurant Coalition is a US trade group formed during the COVID-19 pandemic by independent restaurateurs and chefs. During the pandemic the group lobbied local, state and federal governments for relief after their businesses were closed by government mandates to slow the spread of the virus.
Signs on door of a Graeter's ice cream parlor in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Cincinnati during government-mandated closings. The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the United States restaurant industry via government closures, resulting in layoffs of workers and loss of income for restaurants and owners and threatening the survival of independent restaurants as a category.
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In Nepal, there are some independent politicians, specially in local government. Independent politician and rapper Balen Shah was elected as Mayor of Kathmandu in 2022. [49] [50] Similarly, Harka Sampang and Gopal Hamal were also elected as Mayor of some of the major cities like Dharan and Dhangadhi, respectively. [51] [52]
People are boycotting Martin’s Famous Pastry Shoppe following news that its executive chair, Jim Martin, is a backer of Doug Mastriano, a far-right politician in Pennsylvania.
Donald Trump, then just starting to test the political waters, and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin were widely mocked for eating pizza with knives and forks during a meal stop in 2011 in Times Square.
Menu from a Congressional cafeteria featuring freedom fries. Freedom fries was a politically motivated renaming of french fries in the United States.The term was coined in February 2003 in a North Carolina restaurant, and was widely publicized a month later when the then Republican Chairman of the Committee on House Administration, Bob Ney, renamed the menu item in three Congressional cafeterias.
The Fair Food Program (FFP) is a partnership between growers, farmworkers, and food company buyers to improve conditions for farmworkers. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was launched by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a worker-based human rights organization in Immokalee, Florida in 2011.