The Governor Turned Dallas Restaurants Into Enforcers
A Dallas dining scene not ready to do away with the mask mandate reels as its situation changes yet again.
By Eve Hill-Agnus
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Food & Drink
March 5, 2021
9:04 am
Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to eliminate the mandate that has kept restaurant capacity limited and masks secured to faces sparked concern and baffled a restaurant community that was taken off guard by the sudden evaporation of health-minded measures. Next Wednesday, the statewide order disappears. It marks a shift of responsibility to business owners who will now determine and enforce their own rules. It puts restaurant owners providers of hospitality in the precarious position of enforcer.
Staff, patrons remember Dallas restaurateur Tom Ruggeri as a great entertainer and friend
The owner of Ruggeri’s restaurant died in early January.
Owner Tom Ruggeri in front of Ruggeri s restaurant in Dallas in October 2014. He opened the first Ruggeri’s restaurant on Routh Street in 1985.(Kirsten Kearse / Staff photographer)
Anytime Paula Scholz hears an Elvis song, she thinks of Tom Ruggeri. She worked with him for 18 years, starting as a waitress, shuttling cocktails back and forth, then moving upward at Ruggeri’s restaurant to help with the business and, as she tells it, lovingly battle in a way you’d expect from a family-run joint.
Man, 72, rushed to hospital after falling on Chorley quarry while clearing paths
A 72-year-old man who injured his shoulder and ribs after taking a tumble while clearing paths in Denham Quarry was helped by a mountain rescue team.
Wednesday, 6th January 2021, 5:19 pm
Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue Team (BPMRT) were called to the scene by ambulance crews at around 11.25am today (January 6).
The man, who reportedly injured his shoulder and ribs during the fall, was carried to safety by 22 team members who used their specialist skills and equipment .
He was then taken to Royal Preston Hospital for treatment.
Photos from the scene show the patient being carried on a stretcher through the snow, with the rescue taking approximately one hour and 45 minutes due to the icy conditions.
Mountain Rescue Team called to assist woman injured whilst sledging A young woman was injured whilst sledging in Clayton-Le-Woods. Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue Team (MRT) posted images last night (Saturday January 2) after the woman hit a rock and damaged her knee . Bowland Pennine MRT said, “Earlier this evening we were requested by the North West Ambulance Service to assist with a young female who had been sledging in the snow. The message added: “Once on scene it was determined that she had a mid-shaft Femur break which required urgent hospital attention. “With the ambulance crew on scene, we stretchered her across the snow to an ambulance where she was then transferred into Preston Royal Hospital.
Master list of every Dallas restaurant and bar that closed in 2020
Master list of every Dallas restaurant and bar that closed in 2020 Dakota s was a big loss.
Photo courtesy of Dakota s Steakhouse It s a gloomy CultureMap tradition to do an annual list of restaurant closures although it s usually framed as more as an homage to what came and went. But the 2020 version is more brutal than usual, since so many restaurants and bars closed due to COVID-19. Of all the fields to suffer during the virus, the food and beverage industry suffered the worst. In alphabetical order, here s the list: