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"That elitist fuck" -- a guy on "Ray Donovan" petewells at nytimes dot com.

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@pete_wells
Pete Wells
2 years
Very happy to be able to write a top ten restaurants list again.
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NYT Cooking and Food
2 years
Dhamaka, CheLi, Ernesto’s — and the other new restaurants @pete_wells loved this year.
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Pete Wells
5 years
I've been going to Peter Luger in Brooklyn since the 90s and I've got a few things to say about it.
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4 years
Floyd Cardoz was an exceptional talent, a chef equally at home with undiluted Indian flavors as he was with the delicious union of French, Indian and American food, a personal idiom that he invented.
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Pete Wells
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If you hire a critic to write a piece of criticism, and the criticism is good and fair, and the subject doesn't like it, you do not soften the copy. You do not pull the piece, either. You promote the hell out of it and ask the critic what he'd like to write next.
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Pete Wells
4 years
Wegman’s today was running low on beans. It was however well stocked with wild boar roasts, baby back ribs, smoked salmon, fresh rabbit, andouille and D’Artagnan foie gras. To repeat: some of you people couldn’t panic shop to save your lives.
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Pete Wells
4 years
Somebody, somewhere is just learning about Justin Townes Earle tonight, and that person is going to look up his songs, and those songs will become part of that person's life.
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Pete Wells
7 years
You may not like reporters. But they are there because president works for the people and 300 million people won't fit in the White House.
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Jim Roberts
7 years
Trump team is reportedly considering evicting press from White House.
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Pete Wells
3 years
My strong advice to anybody who wants to go anywhere near an indoor dining room: Get fully vaccinated, now, before we start talking about the lambda variant.
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Pete Wells
6 years
Yeah, is it too late now to say sorry? Cause I'm missing more than just your body Is it too late now to say sorry? Yeah I know that I let you down PS Here’s a recipe for pizza dough cinnamon rolls
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Pete Wells
6 years
A lesson from Jonathan Gold's life for writers, especially young ones: When people are looking at the wrong things, keep talking about the right ones.
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Pete Wells
3 years
IF restaurants can put dining areas on the street we can also put permanent trash bins on the street so we don't have bags on every sidewalk. This may make me unpopular with rats. Let the chips fall where they may.
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Erik Bottcher
3 years
“New Yorkers are quickly losing patience with the status quo,” said Bottcher. “It’s past time that New York City catch up with the rest of the world and modernize our sanitation processes. We need to move faster.”
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Pete Wells
6 years
When I mentioned Mario's cinnamon roll recipe recently I was haunted by the sense that I hadn't fully conveyed its absurdity. I was right, I hadn't. This piece does.
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Pete Wells
5 years
The same Stephen Ross holding that $250,000-a-head Hamptons fundraiser for Trump is also a minority investor in Momofuku. David Chang has seen plenty of controversy but not, so far, this kind.
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Pete Wells
7 years
Stop normalizing 280.
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Pete Wells
2 years
The single most shocking (and entertaining) restaurant review I've ever read. I couldn't have been more horrified had the author and her friends resorted to cannibalism, which seems a definite possibility near the end.
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Geraldine Just Follow TheEverywhereist on Threads
2 years
Remember how a while back I said that I went to a Michelin starred restaurant and it was one of the most singularly awful meals of my life? I finally sat down and wrote about the whole fiasco.
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Pete Wells
3 years
I don't know if I'm more upset about the daily death toll or about the country's total inability to mourn together.
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Pete Wells
5 years
And before everybody asks "so what IS the best steak house in New York, Mister Smarty Pants," I'll just say right here that I don't think there is one.
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Pete Wells
5 years
Rarely repost my reviews but this week's is about Puerto Rican food, which is very important to this city and doesn't get talked about enough.
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Pete Wells
2 years
Let's be clear, if anybody around here gets to be the gazpacho police, it's me.
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Pete Wells
7 years
"Cakegate" may be the political scandal I've been waiting for all my life.
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Duff Goldman
7 years
The cake on the left is the one I made for President Obama's inauguration 4 years ago. The one on the right is Trumps. I didn't make it. 🤔
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Pete Wells
5 years
I haven't made up my mind yet whether Hudson Yards is out of touch with ordinary New Yorkers. But that's something we can discuss at the Champagne bar next door to the $33-a-person observation deck.
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Pete Wells
2 years
The best food story of the year got better. The chef responded or, to be precise, issued a declaration.
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Pete Wells
3 years
I can hear bar owners across New York cheering: the state is repealing the law that requires anyone purchasing a drink to buy food.
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Pete Wells
5 years
We are very close to global consensus that bagels should not be used for sandwiches:
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Pete Wells
5 years
The millennials killed foie gras, didn't they.
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Pete Wells
4 years
I'm told several more well-known restaurants will be closing tonight after service. I hope we'll all meet again on the other side of this.
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Pete Wells
6 years
Dear restaurants: You know, you *could* give one cocktail list to everybody at the table. Just an idea!
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Pete Wells
4 years
I've followed @JeffGordinier for two decades and this is the best thing he's ever written. It's about what we'll lose if independent restaurants can't come back. Please read.
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Pete Wells
3 years
I am in no way, shape or form auditioning for Takeout Critic but restaurants: please don't send plastic silver unless the customer asks. We're throwing plastic away, you're throwing money away.
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Pete Wells
3 years
I tried to funnel all my thoughts about restaurant workers, abusive bosses, maskless jerks, NDAs, Covid and the value of empathy into one essay. (Please spare some empathy for my editors.)
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Pete Wells
6 years
It's totally unfair that just because Canadians are nice and open-minded people w/ a sane immigration policy, they get to eat all this delicious Syrian food.
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Pete Wells
7 years
Our culture overvalues cynicism, undervalues skepticism, and is vague about the difference.
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Pete Wells
4 years
Another Coronavirus study that is not great news for restaurants: infected droplets that hang in the air for up to 14 minutes can be produced by.... talking.
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Pete Wells
4 years
Andy Ricker closing all his Portland bars & restaurants except the original Pok Pok, which he hopes he can save. The announcement is worth reading.
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Pete Wells
6 years
“The best billionaire you never heard of”: a Texas grocery baron who wrote big checks to help Harvey victims, Sutherland Springs families & public schools.
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Pete Wells
6 years
ok but would it be safe if you cooked the Tide pods in an Instapot?
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Pete Wells
5 years
Having customers guess what workers earn and using tips to make up the shortfall between that and what customers guess those workers *should* earn is not a super rational system.
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Eater
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One reason to always tip your barista? They might not be making as much as you assumed
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Pete Wells
4 years
"If it were possible to wave a magic wand and make all Americans freeze in place for 14 days while sitting six feet apart, epidemiologists say, the whole epidemic would sputter to a halt."
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Pete Wells
4 years
CDC wrote a guide covering safe operating procedures for businesses including restaurants. The White House decided to bury it.
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Pete Wells
6 years
I just decided I didn't know enough about a topic to tweet about it. This ought to be covered in some kind of Twitter Serenity Prayer.
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Pete Wells
4 years
Out of an abundance of caution, I am getting back in bed.
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Pete Wells
7 years
How the President welcomed the German chancellor in 1963, from Robert Caro's LBJ biography.
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Pete Wells
4 years
I belong to the Guild. This statement speaks for me. I stand with my fellow journalists, and particularly with my black colleagues.
@nyguild
NewsGuild of New York
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Our statement:
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Pete Wells
4 years
Of course it had to close. There's no rehabilitation plan for a restaurant with a rape room.
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Pete Wells
7 years
"The dining room...is decorated in various shades of taupe, biscuit and fuck you:" A @jayrayner1 defenestration.
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Pete Wells
4 years
Last week some people on here were claiming restaurant critics are useless because you can find everything on Yelp. As partial rebuttal, I present my review of a great Bangkok-style restaurant that you cannot find on Yelp (yet).
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Pete Wells
6 years
My reaction to the New Yorker naming a food critic is ... FINALLY.
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Pete Wells
5 years
A few commenters are incredulous that I would praise a burger made with American cheese--fake cheese, they say. Real cheese, I reply. Real cheese that's glued together with emulsifiers. ?
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Pete Wells
5 years
I basically lived at Mercado Little Spain for a month or so, trying to figure out what was good. The answer is "almost everything," but I've narrowed it down to 20 items.
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Pete Wells
3 years
Stand by, I've just been told we are expecting the big Supreme Court decision on cast iron tonight.
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Pete Wells
4 years
Salt Bae can have a second restaurant when he gives us a second meme.
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Pete Wells
6 years
A cocktail with a three-digit price isn't a beverage. It's a press release.
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Pete Wells
10 years
Remember when restaurants gave you bread & water as soon as you sat down? Can we please go back to that? http://t.co/wcncTlNAUG
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Pete Wells
4 years
This is how the fall of the Roman Empire began.
@davidchang
david chang
4 years
I don’t salt the water to cook my pasta anymore
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Pete Wells
2 years
I'll drink to that.
@EaterNY
Eater NY
2 years
Gov. Kathy Hochul vows to make takeout cocktails permanent in New York
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Pete Wells
5 years
This is the first day in all the years I've been writing about food that New York hasn't had a Mario Batali restaurant.
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Pete Wells
4 years
After NYC shut down in March, dead bodies kept piling up for weeks. We came to a standstill but the deaths didn't. And I'm thinking tonight about all the places that haven't even arrived at their standstill moment yet.
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Pete Wells
2 years
There is a new piece of writing by @everywhereist which means that everybody else who tries to be funny on the Internet can just wave a white flag and surrender for the day.
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Pete Wells
4 years
Restaurant landlords: here is a thing one might do.
@ABCPolitics
ABC News Politics
4 years
A property owner in Arkansas will not make its restaurant tenants pay rent in April during the novel coronavirus pandemic, in which the practice of social distancing has impacted businesses like eateries.
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Pete Wells
5 years
For the first time in my life I started a sentence with "And another thing..." and it felt great. Now I understand how Andy Rooney lived to 92.
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Pete Wells
4 years
OK all my Zeitgeist-surfing food media friends: What the hell WAS the past decade in restaurants all about? Sum it up so I don't have to write a 2000 word essay about it.
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Pete Wells
4 years
In tribute, please join me in pouring a bottle of tequila over my head & lighting it on fire
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Eater NY
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Famed East Village bar Coyote Ugly has permanently closed following failed rent negotiations
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Pete Wells
5 years
We forget how hard speakeasies had to hustle during Prohibition, sending out press releases w/ professional photos, inviting influencers to preview parties, setting up Instagram accounts , promoting trivia night & bingo parties--all that and hiding from the cops, too!
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Pete Wells
7 years
By the way, in a civil society, restaurant reviewers shouldn't need this kind of protection.
@grubstreet
Grub Street
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The steps Vanity Fair took to protect the writer who penned their blistering Trump Grill review
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Pete Wells
3 years
Joe Biden broke into my apartment, tackled me and forced me to give my cheeseburger to Major.
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Pete Wells
4 years
Charlotte NC is one of many mid-size cities with a growing restaurant scene but no critic to help sort it out. This is a smart, fine-grained piece on how that plays out.
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Pete Wells
4 years
A week ago I'd written off any new aid to restaurants as dead until 2021. This is the right kind of plot twist.
@IndpRestaurants
Independent Restaurant Coalition
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INCREDIBLE NEWS: The bipartisan RESTAURANTS Act — the bill we’ve spent months fighting for that will help #SaveRestaurants — is included in the revised HEROES Act which was introduced this evening in the House.
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I have become a fashion influencer at last.
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FOH🥂Pod
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pete...we love and fear you here is our homage to your power @pete_wells
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Pete Wells
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I’ve never met anybody who knew Mr. Cardoz who didn’t marvel at his kindness, his generosity, his patience.
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Pete Wells
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This may be the first year there’s been genuine suspense about the Presidential turkey pardon.
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Pete Wells
5 years
"Put the dolphin in the glass" is four-star recipe writing.
@70s_party
70s Dinner Party
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Getting my drink on
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6 years
This appears to be a MAJOR step forward in our understanding of the New York slice, one of the most famous noshes in the US and, weirdly, one of the least studied:
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Pete Wells
3 years
I hope the new USHG policy requiring diners to show proof of vaccination is adopted far and wide.
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Pete Wells
4 years
Hello from Ghosttown.
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Pete Wells
9 years
If you could go back and kill pumpkin spice as a baby, would you do it?
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Pete Wells
5 years
Help from the hive mind: Making stew (or braise) & need a perfect blank canvas. For color & freshness, may sprinkle with just 1/4 c parsley. Oh and I'd prefer something that can be generously buttered. Noodles?
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Pete Wells
4 years
Meyer, Boulud, Ripert & Le Coze call time out. Kretchmer et al. close Gotham for good. What you're seeing is long time operators who survived 9/11 and multiple market crashes realizing that this time is different.
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Pete Wells
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NYC BBQ
@GenericBologna
rhymes with purple
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In 5 words or less, start a fight without politics
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Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.
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Pete Wells
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Remember, the unemployment claims figure (now 36 million since the pandemic began) understates the true loss of jobs because undocumented workers can't file.
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@elizashapiro All the Park Slope progressives are having dinner parties during the pandemic.
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Pete Wells
4 years
Thread. Obv I'm biased but publishers who say social media now does what critics once did are lying to themselves & to readers in order to save money.
@karonliu
Karon Liu
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Toronto started the decade with restaurant critics at The Globe, Toronto Life, The Star, Now Magazine, and IIRC, Eye Weekly. Now we're down to zero.
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Pete Wells
9 years
Hi, @Gachatz , here's that definition you were asking about. http://t.co/4mZY3uN1Di
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Pete Wells
5 years
If USA Today thinks personal grooming is not essential I don't want to know what it's like to work in their newsroom.
@USATODAY
USA TODAY
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The average adult in the USA spends $1,497 a month on nonessential items. All told, that's roughly $18,000 a year on things we can all do without.
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I defended him on the fork and knife but there can be no defense for ranking green peppers first.
@angacevedo15
Angélica M. Acevedo
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this morning @NYCMayor ranked his best pizza toppings to showcase how ranked choice voting works
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If the problem is having guests who don’t know the meaning of horror, yes, this might solve it.
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Pete Wells
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"New Yorkers need to ask themselves if they would they be willing to pay $8 for a latte instead of $5 if it means their barista has health care."
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