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...Christie’s has set ambitions high for Andy Warhol’s signature square silkscreen, “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” (1964)....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
...The latest data indicate that 12 London boroughs, including Richmond upon Thames and Ealing, recorded more than 100 cases per 100,000 in the week ending October 8....
...“Covid could have been an internet virus taking down all the routers of the world and our business would be out and restaurants would be in,” Hastings says....
...Japan’s Line is taking a bite out of Thailand’s food delivery market, raising $110m investment from BRV Capital Management and a merger with a local restaurant aggregator to take on the likes of Grab and...
...Should superapps share the spoils with restaurants?...
...In Omaha, Mr Buffett’s favourite restaurant is Gorat’s steak house. When Gorat’s offers a buffet, it’s a balanced menu....
...On this blustery London afternoon, he plonks down an espresso-sized plastic cup on the restaurant’s marble dining counter....
...But why the strange choice of those bottles as a stopgap, when there was spring water in glass bottles available in all the bars and restaurants?...
...The Sage of Omaha cultivates a cosy, avuncular image as a friendly investor who cherishes incumbent management....
...The restaurant chain said customer volumes had turned negative again, having failed to recover from last summer’s food safety scare....
...“House cleaners, nurses, servers in restaurants — they don’t earn that amount of money,” she says. “People who are taking care of the elderly and working in restaurants, they can’t afford to live here....
...Swear at it and the Sage bot responds with a sad face emoji and says “I’d rather talk about accounting”....
...“This country is the syndicate of ‘France, Inc’”, says Jean-Marc. The 2010 presidential election sparked chaos and violence....
...The Sage of Omaha also lamented how long it took to sell shares in Tesco: “I made a big mistake with this investment by dawdling.”...
...There are no such excuses, however, for calling its windowless “Russian-Nordic” restaurant Bystro, which means “quickly” in Russian....
...So far beverage lobbyists have been successful at fending off taxes, most recently when a closely watched proposal in Richmond, California failed last November....
...Inside the Baltic, trade at the ground floor café is brisk and, in the spectacular rooftop restaurant, late lunch parties chatter noisily....
...The service is impeccable, the chef flitting and doffing between his regulars at the end of the evening, the décor a sort of haute Quaker chic – sage wood panelling, maritime prints, low lighting....
...He graduated from the University of Southern California in 2001 with a Masters of Science in accounting, and holds a BA in psychology from the University of Richmond....
...Brad Richmond, chief financial officer at Darden, said that its customers remained “in a fairly fragile state right now”....
...“We are seeing people seeking to be more discrete, so if you are out dining you can use it publicly in a restaurant without looking like a junkie,” he says....
...The film Food Inc [the Oscar-nominated 2010 documentary about the US food industry] is reaching a wide audience....
...We’d economise on hotels but go to good restaurants.”...
...The first opened last year in the Yorkshire Dales, near Richmond....
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