Word: cafe
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After 43 years of hiring only men to wait tables, Cafe Pamplona hired two female servers two weeks ago, saying the restaurant was too short-staffed to continue the tradition...
Customers have commented on the change, said Jennie Follen, one of the newly-hired servers, who did not find out about the cafe's previous hiring policy until she started work last week as a server...
...better and wanted kids to be just like them. Social-guidance films, the postwar spawn of progressive educators and Grade-D auteurs, taught kids how to be popular and to say no, to think fast and to drive slowly. These beguiling curios have been fodder for documentaries (The Atomic Cafe, with the "duck-and-cover" Civil Defense shorts), for compilation reels (Sex Hygiene Scare Films from Something Weird Video) and for the canny gibe artists of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Now they've been rescued and re-appraised by cultural critic Ken Smith in a droll, provocative study and accompanying...
...bakery boasts not only the famous Bagel Buzz saw, but a drink menu as well--complete with domestic and imported beer, red and white wine and even champagne. Why bagels and beer? In order to circumvent Square zoning laws that outlaw certain types of chains, the Faneuil Hall-based cafe has been forced to serve up cabernet along with cream cheese. Faced with militant, underage bouncers, sky high prices and a paltry selection, the thirsty bunch had a daunting task before them...
Those of us who were actually over there at that time think showing Dickie Greenleaf lounging around a gorgeous pad with Gwyneth Paltrow instead of standing in front of a pinball machine at a grubby cafe, trying to concentrate on working the flippers while being talked at by a really pretentious guy from Amherst, lacks verisimilitude. At least we hope it does...