Framebridge in Clarendon is now open with the store also giving away free flowers for Mother’s Day.
The D.C.-based custom framing company, owned by Rosslyn-based Graham Holdings, opened its newest location at 2839 Clarendon Blvd on Thursday. The store is offering free flowers from local florist Holley Simmons, while supplies last, with any in-store purchase throughout the weekend.
In a statement to ARLnow, Framebridge CEO Susan Tynan said she always wanted to bring a store to Clarendon.
We’re so excited to finally have a store in Clarendon we’ve actually had our eye on this center since we opened our first retail location on 14th Street in 2019. We took a tour then and have been waiting for the perfect spot to open ever since!
State of California Orders Baja Fresh to Pay Nearly $400,000 for Wage Theft
Over a two year period, cooks and cashiers at seven locations did not receive full pay for hours worked
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Last month, the state of California cited and fined a Baja Fresh franchisee in the form of seven separate affiliated corporations for wage theft of 188 workers. After an investigation, the state labor commission discovered that from February 2017 to May 2018, 188 Baja Fresh restaurant workers experienced wage theft and will now receive $375,806 in unpaid wages.
California Labor Commissioner Lilia García-Brower’s office stated that G & D Investments, Inc. dba Baja Fresh, seven other legal entities, and its CEOs set up different corporations for each restaurant, but shared employees between locations. By shuffling employees, cooks and cashiers did not receive full pay for hours worked, including overtime and double time, and double s
Restaurants face worker shortages as pandemic subsides
People wearing facemasks have lunch outside of a boarded Baja Fresh restaurant on Hollywood Boulevard amid the Coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)
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Restaurants all around the country have struggled to hire workers with customers flooding back as coronavirus restrictions start to subside. As dining rooms begin to reopen and customers return in mass, reports show, restaurant owners are finding it difficult to get servers, hosts and cooks to do the same.
“We’re printing the applications, setting up the interviews, having managers coming in on their days off to do the interviews,” John Lulgjuaj, the owner of Oceanside Beach Bar & Grill, said. “And 80 percent of them don’t show up.”
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Corvallis Farmers’ Market will be opening again on April 17, back in downtown, and sticking to COVID restrictions. Those restrictions include allowing only one person per household into the Market at a time, take-out only from the surrounding restaurants, no single-serve drinks sold, and the ever-present masks and social distancing. However, Market restaurants will be allowed to have dining in their parking areas. Jennifer Moreland of the Downtown Corvallis Association told the
Daily Barometer, “It’s one of the safest ways you can shop.”
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National Burrito Day Deals at Chipotle, Moe s, Del Taco and More
On 4/1/21 at 12:01 AM EDT
National Burrito Day is today, April 1, and multiple major restaurants are celebrating with tasty deals and offers and who wouldn t want a free burrito?
National Burrito Day is celebrated annually on the first Thursday in April and National Today describes the day as the perfect opportunity to fill your hungry belly with your favorite Mexican flavors.
Restaurants like Chipotle, Del Taco, and El Pollo Loco are among those commemorating the day by offering guests free or discounted burritos.
Although the day falls on April Fool s Day this year, rest assured that these deals are not pranks. There are plenty of opportunities to get cheap or free burritos, including buy one get one free deals so you can treat your friends and family, and there is even a chance to win free Bitcoin.