James Harden is still planning to move forward with a new business venture in the Houston area despite his recent trade and, well, tumultuous exit with the Rockets. The newest member of the Brooklyn Nets, according to the Houston Chronicle, is still set to open up a steakhouse in Houston this month. The restaurant, Thirteen, is named after his jersey number. “Our entire staff and team are looking forward to providing top-notch service and bringing a one-of-a-kind dining experience to Houston,”… Source link
Read More »Texans reportedly fine players for maskless grand opening of Deshaun Watson’s restaurant
Deshaun Watson hosted friends and Houston Texans teammates for the grand opening of his new cheesesteak franchise last week. Wide receiver Brandin Cooks, running back Duke Johnson, defensive end Charles Omenihu and offensive linemen Laremy Tunsil, Tytus Howard, Roderick Johnson attended the event. Now their wallets are a little lighter. ESPN’s Sarah Barshop reported on Tuesday that the Texans have fined Watson and his teammates for attending the party. One player was fined $5,000, according… Source link
Read More »Odd News Roundup: Yandex robots start to deliver restaurant meals in central Moscow; Time is precious, says Vietnamese collector of European church clocks and more
Following is a summary of current odd news briefs. Solo sauna a hot favourite in Tokyo as coronavirus cases rise The spread of the novel coronavirus may have slowed economies and closed many businesses worldwide, but it hasn’t been a damper on a newly opened Tokyo sauna that caters to solo customers. The Finnish-style sauna rooms at Solo Sauna Tune, where customers can relax in solitude and enjoy the heat from water over hot stones, are so popular they are booked up within hours. Time is… Source link
Read More »Yandex robots start to deliver restaurant meals in central Moscow
By Gleb Stolyarov MOSCOW (Reuters) – Driverless robot buggies started delivering hot restaurant meals to paying customers in one central Moscow district on Wednesday, their operator, Russian Internet giant Yandex, said. The Yandex.Eats app, one of several food and grocery delivery services in Moscow, is offering customers around the White Square business district the option to have meals delivered by a buggy-like delivery robot instead of a human. The robot, called the Yandex.Rover, has been… Source link
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Bloomberg Kushner Cos. Spent the Trump Years Unwinding Scion’s Costly Bets (Bloomberg) — Guy Fieri’s Times Square restaurant, where Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump partied in late 2016 before heading to Washington, is gone. The office tower at 666 Fifth Ave., once the headquarters of the Kushner family’s real estate empire, has been sold. So too has a stake in a project in the trendy Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn.New York looks a lot different now than it did before Jared Kushner left… Source link
Read More »Yandex robots start to deliver restaurant meals in central Moscow
Bloomberg Kushner Cos. Spent the Trump Years Unwinding Scion’s Costly Bets (Bloomberg) — Guy Fieri’s Times Square restaurant, where Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump partied in late 2016 before heading to Washington, is gone. The office tower at 666 Fifth Ave., once the headquarters of the Kushner family’s real estate empire, has been sold. So too has a stake in a project in the trendy Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn.New York looks a lot different now than it did before Jared Kushner left… Source link
Read More »Yandex Robots Roaming Russia Delivering Restaurant Meals
Robots from Yandex, a tech giant which is kind of like Russia’s Google, have started making restaurant deliveries in the Russian cities of Moscow and Innopolis, the company announced in a corporate blog post today. The Yandex.Rover robots are six-wheeled, cooler-sized robots similar to those from Starship and Kiwibot. They work in conjunction with Yandex.Eats, the company’s restaurant and grocery delivery service that has more than 30,000 merchants across 166 cities. Via the… Source link
Read More »New Jersey officials shut down a restaurant that hosted a mask-free New York Young Republicans gala
Rep. Matt Gaetz. Getty Officials from New Jersey and New York slammed Rep. Matt Gaetz for attending a mask-less gala on Thursday with 150 people convening in close proximity in a restaurant. New Jersey Mayor Steven Fulop shut down the Maritime Parc, the restaurant that hosted the event, on Friday. The event was an annual gala for the New York Young Republicans Club that was originally supposed to be held in a Manhattan venue, which declined to host the event. The governors of both New Jersey and… Source link
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