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FILE - In this Monday, May 10. 2021, file photo, Mayor Lori Lightfoot discusses Chicago s vaccination efforts during a news conference in Chicago. A protest and march against Lightfoot is scheduled for Thursday, May 20. (Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times via AP, File) May 19, 2021 - 8:44 PM
CHICAGO (AP) â Lori Lightfoot had her work cut out for her when she became mayor of Chicago in 2019, running as a progressive Democrat and outsider who would bring big change to City Hall. Among her early challenges: a troubled police department, deep financial problems, entrenched inequality, a teacher strike and a president who liked to pile on via Twitter.
Panera bread wants to combine off-premises growth and in-store experience in its new look.
Like many quick-service chains across America, Panera Bread finds itself at a COVID-19 crossroads. The need to court and remove friction from an off-premises swell, yet also the desire to guard the gathering-place DNA it’s long differentiated against.
This meeting of two camps led Panera to create a fresh design, doubled the “Next-Gen Café,” which makes key changes on both fronts, and tries to combine them in ways Panera hasn’t attempted before.
Built with strategic design firm ChangeUp, it includes enhanced digital, personalized operations, as well expanded more drive-thru access. However, “the brand is still betting on dine-in,” Panera said. And so there’s comfortable seating around the fireplace and a focus on the chain’s craft bakery experience.
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States, business sort out what new CDC mask guidance means
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Several states immediately and enthusiastically embraced new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention t hat say fully vaccinated Americans no longer need to wear masks indoors or out in most situations.
But other states and cities and some major businesses took a wait-and-see attitude Friday amid questions of whether the new stand is safe or workable, given that there is no easy way to know who has been vaccinated and who hasn’t. The guidelines essentially leave it up to people to do the right thing.