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Belleview Station, 6785 East Chenango TheBigWonderful returns with an opening weekend filled with music, craft cocktails and beer, food trucks and a festival shopping market. Saturday is devoted to Colorado bluegrass, with Sugar Moon, Meadow Mountain, Pick & Howl and Chain Station. Sunday is for local cover and jam bands, with Dogs Off Leash, Wake Up & Live: A Bob Marley Tribute, Puma Borracha and DeadPhish Orchestra. Both days, Something Vinyl Club will be spinning records in the festival vendor village. The Beer Garden Bar, with ten-plus Colorado craft beers as well as Derby-themed cocktails, will be open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. General admission tickets are $35 Saturday, $30 Sunday; Open Bar sessions are available from noon to 4 p.m. or 4 to 8 p.m. ($65 Saturday, $60 Sunday), and include admission to the festival. Get tickets and more information at thebigwonderful.com.
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Restaurants adding service charges to address employee wage gap
Courtesy of Carmine’s on Penn)
Denver restaurants have been grappling with the wage gap between front-of-the-house and back-of-the-house employees for years.
Increasing competition and the rising state and city minimum wage have made it difficult to even out pay between wait staff and those in the kitchen who don’t get tipped, according to those in the industry.
Now, with the pandemic putting local restaurants in a state of almost constant uncertainty, multiple prominent restaurateurs have decided it’s the logical time to debut what they see as a solution the service charge.