Already hearing from restaurateurs who won't back down and who resent being put in a situation where they have to stand up to obnoxious customers with no law or judge's order backing them up.
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Est. 1985. Digital since 12/21/1992. More than 2,000 columns served! [email protected] For news tweets, follow @BudKennedy
- One of Fort Worth’s favorite regular visitors is back, and Harrison Ford dined his first night at sensational Istanbul Grill in @sundancesquare (their pix)
- Updated with @HurtadoBBQ's Globe Life Field @Rangers World Series special: The (Jonah) Heim Hammer, a $99 beef shin hand-carved and served with tortillas and fixins for street tacos #GoAndTakeIt star-telegram.com/entertainment/…
- August marks 35 years writing @EatsBeat. In September I’ll begin the 50th year since my first @startelegram byline. Thanks all for your support, follow and readership.
- Here’s Mary Perez of @EnchiladasOle in Fort Worth bringing a man inside from her back alley: She’s welcoming the homeless or anyone without A/C to sit inside and drink water on hottest days
00:00 - Hearing again about customers getting abusive because they had to wear a mask and couldn't dine where they wished. One cafe switched back to take-out-only over it. Folks, be nice to little restaurants, particularly those run by those over 65 or at-risk. They need help, not hassle
- Tommy's Hamburgers and Los Zarapes are the first local restaurants I see announcing that masks will continue to be required for all entering, both customers and employees. Nationally, Target and Macy's will continue to require masks.
- Tip your servers and delivery crews better than ever right now. Tip at fast food counters, too. Think of the holidays, how hard these people have been working all year, and the risks they’re taking to keep serving customers. (And keep your mask up to protect their health.)
- Fort Worth's @HeimBBQ pushes back against Baylor fan's threatened "boycott," helps raise $$ for @WomensCenterTC star-telegram.com/entertainment/…
- So far @rodeogoatfw, Flying Fish and the Flying Saucer are the best-known restaurants still requiring masks for customers
- Mike Smith baked his last of 500,000 pies today in his 55 years running Paris Coffee Shop. He retires after breakfast Saturday and turns the restaurant over to Lou Lambert and partners.
- The scapegoating has begun, so a reminder: Contact tracers say new cases came from bars, parties & events. New cases are predominantly Latino and Anglo. The worst danger was inside bars, not outside marching. If you’re blaming justice protests for bars closing, clean up your act.