<ul class="summary-list"><li>Hawker Chan, known for having the world's cheapest Michelin-starred meal, has lost it star. </li><li>The <keyword id="11894142" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="food" source="Orion">food</keyword> bible's 2021 guide, released September 1, notably left out the once renowned restaurant. </li><li>Founded by Chef Chan Hon Meng, the eatery is known for its chicken and rice, priced at $2.25.</li></ul>A chef in <keyword id="11895291" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="singapore" source="Orion">Singapore</keyword> who rose to fame for serving the world's cheapest Michelin-starred meal from a food stall is notably missing from the <a href="https://guide.michelin.com/sg/en">food bible's 2021 guide</a>. Chef Chan Hon Meng, who received worldwide acclaim for his simple yet delicious soya chicken and rice meal, owned one of two Singapore-based hawker stalls <a href="https://guide.michelin.com/sg/en/article/news-and-views/2016-michelin-guide-singapore-launches">awarded Michelin</a> stars in July 2016. At the time, his famous $2.25 (3 Singapore dollars) dish was served out of a food stall in Singapore's Chinatown Complex Food Centre. Originally from Malaysia, Chef Meng is well-known for his mantra that "good food should be made simple and affordable," according to the <a href="https://www.liaofanhawkerchan.com/story">restaurant's website</a>. Four years on, however, Michelin's 2021 food guide of Singapore no longer mentions Chef Meng or <a href="https://www.liaofanhawkerchan.com/">Hawker Chan</a>, his concept restaurant started just three months after receiving his original food stall received its single <keyword id="11916199" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="michelin-star" source="Orion">Michelin star</keyword>. It's still found on the <a href="https://guide.michelin.com/sg/en/singapore-region/singapore/restaurant/hawker-chan-soya-sauce-chicken-rice-noodle">Michelin website</a>, retaining a Michelin <a href="https://guide.michelin.com/en/article/features/the-bib-gourmand">Bib Gourmand</a> status, which the food bible describes as a "value-for-money" award given to eateries serving a delicious "simpler style of cooking."<div type="image" title="Customers stand outside the Chan Hong Meng food stall in Singapore, Singapore, 26 October 2016." height="1612" width="2150" msid="85899601" hostid="261"></div><h2>The exact reason Hawker Chan is no longer Michelin-starred remains unknown</h2>It could be related to how Chef Meng's menu stacked up against the food bible's five criteria, used to assess whether a restaurant is worthy of receiving a coveted star. According to the <a href="https://guide.michelin.com/sg/en/the-inspection-process-sg">Michelin guide website</a>, these criteria include "quality of the ingredients used, mastery of flavor and cooking techniques, the personality of the chef in his cuisine, value for money and consistency between visits."Assessments are carried out by <a href="https://guide.michelin.com/th/en/michelin-guide-inspectors">multiple "inspectors,"</a> tasked with eating two meals a day, five days a week. They retain their independence by paying for their own meals and carry out their visits under total anonymity, adding to the shrouded mystery of Michelin's star system.<div type="image" title="Chef Meng's once Michelin-starred meal, chicken and rice." height="2241" width="2988" msid="85899602" hostid="261"></div>In <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/hawker-chan-singapore-michelin-star-intl-hnk/index.html">an interview with CNN</a>, Singaporean food critic KF Seetoh, dubbed the "Guru of Grub" by the New York Times according to his website <a href="https://makansutra.com/about/">Makansutra</a>, said Michelin upheld the prestige of its star system following news of Hawker Chan's absence from the 2021 guide. "I think Michelin has correctly stuck to their guns and protected the dignity of the stars," he told the publication. While there has been speculation as to whether the quality of food dropped as Chef Meng expanded his business, Insider journalist Katie Warren <a href="https://www.insider.com/worlds-cheapest-michelin-starred-meal-singapore-hawker-chan-photos-2021-2">paid a visit to his food stall</a> in March 2021, praising the eatery for its "laid-back yet mouthwateringly delicious meal."Both the <keyword id="12019476" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="michelin-guide" source="Orion">Michelin Guide</keyword> and Hawker Chan did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

A Singapore restaurant with the cheapest Michelin-starred meal in the world lost its only Michelin star

I ate at Culver's, a Midwestern fast-food chain, for the first time and it was the best burger I've ever had

<ul class="summary-list"><li><a href="http://www.bangbangpie.com/">Bang Bang Pie &amp; Biscuits</a> has been serving comfort <keyword id="6181" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Food">food</keyword> to <a href="https://www.insider.com/category/chicago">Chicago's</a> Logan Square neighborhood for eight years.</li><li>With some of the best <keyword id="187702" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Pie">pie</keyword> in <keyword id="6354604" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Chicago">Chicago</keyword>, it has gained a reputation for delicious food and warm hospitality.</li><li>During the pandemic, Bang Bang has dubbed itself a "pantry," offering an assortment of food for weekly pickup.</li></ul>Following is a transcript of the <keyword id="21654" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="video">video</keyword>.Narrator: Key lime, triple berry, and chocolate graham cracker are just some of the hundreds of flavors made from scratch at <keyword id="9917001" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="bang-bang-pie-biscuits">Bang Bang Pie &amp; Biscuits</keyword> in Chicago. Customer: I've heard they're some of the best pies in Chicago.Customer: I don't think it gets any better than biscuits and pie.Narrator: Bang Bang Pie has been serving comfort food to the Logan Square neighborhood for eight years and has gained a local reputation for its delicious food and warm hospitality. Even during the pandemic, it often has a line stretching around the block.Customer: I actually just moved into the area. This is one of the first places that I went to, 'cause it is adorable, and also I just tried the pie once, and it was delicious.Michael Ciapciak: Having a focus on pie and biscuits, it's kind of like guests come here happy.Narrator: The starting point of Bang Bang's famous pies is the crust.Chelsea Gerdeman: The crust should contribute something. It's gotta be the perfect balance of flaky and tender. You can actually see the pieces of butter in here. And when that bakes, the butter is gonna melt, and the steam that comes out of it is gonna give it a little rise, and that's gonna be a flake.You want it sitting, like, right on the lip of the tin so it doesn't fall over or shrink in when it bakes. So, you wanna just be as gentle as you can so it doesn't get stretched out at all.Narrator: Besides its carefully constructed pastry crust, Bang Bang is best known for its graham cracker crust.Customer: Their graham cracker crust is amazing. I usually prefer pastry, but I prefer their graham cracker.Chelsea: We make our own graham crackers in-house. We just add enough butter that you can get it to stick together. You just want a clump like that. We use a lot of cinnamon in ours, so it has, like, a really distinct smell and taste.Narrator: One of these bowls makes about 24 pie crusts. In total, Bang Bang makes a couple of hundred crusts each week.Michael: It's extraordinarily laborious to do what we do, but I do think it makes a difference. By the time you get it, it's been baked three times. It's gonna have a more complex caramelized nature. That's what makes ours really shine.Narrator: Bang Bang rotates its pies every week and is constantly trying new flavors, like root beer float and s'more. But a couple of fan favorites always stick around.Michael: Key lime pie would be considered our classic. That has not left the menu in probably eight years. We always do a chocolate pie, a fruit pie always, and then either a custard or a wildcard.Customer: I've never tried the summer pie before. That's what I got today. It sounds really good. Their key lime is the best key lime ever.Chelsea: It's a really simple recipe, actually, but it's one of our most popular. It is just sweetened condensed milk, egg yolks, key lime juice, and lime zest. And that's it. Customer: Key lime's my favorite pie in general, and theirs is delicious.Michael: What really makes it shine is the contrast of the sweet, the tart, the perfect balance, coupled with that house-made graham cracker crust.Narrator: Another customer favorite is chocolate caramel, which Michael describes as a light but rich brownie filling in a chocolate cookie crust.Michael: That's kind of like a layup. You know, it pleases everyone.Narrator: But for some people, pie really means fruit pie.Chelsea: Something about fruit pies, I love both making and eating. There's, like, really no room to hide when the flavor profile is fruit.Michael: Buying good berries in season is half the battle. We primarily partner with Mick Klug Family Farm in St. Joseph, Michigan, about 60 miles away. It's important, you know, primarily to support Midwestern farmers, but also because the product tastes better.It is really fun when you get a delivery from Klug that, like, they drop them off and you pop a blackberry or a strawberry, and it's, like, the best blackberry or strawberry you've ever had. Well, right then and there, we have to do very little to continue on that flavor.Chelsea: I think it's just, like, a good Midwestern dessert. There's nothing overly pretentious about pie. It just, like, is very up-front about what it is. It's delicious.Customer: I think pie just tastes like home. The food's delicious, but every time we go there it just feels kind of like an extension of our home.Chelsea: I grew up making pies. So I've been, like, indoctrinated my entire life. I was considering what I wanted to do with my life and getting really stressed out and stress baking about it. And then I realized I could get paid to bake and I wouldn't be stressed out all the time. So I got a job at a pie shop in Atlanta, and I have not looked back.Narrator: We asked Michael to try some of Bang Bang's current pie selections and tell us which is his current favorite.Michael: So, this is our key lime pie. I haven't had it in a while, but it's as good as I remember. Perfect balance of sweet, tart, acidic, creamy.This is another one of our classics. It's chocolate chess. It's the darkest, richest, lightest chocolate brownie you could ever imagine topped with the salted caramel. This one is in a chocolate cookie crust. Totally different than the key lime. It is really good.This is triple berry. It's in our house pastry crust, which is an all-butter crust. Crumble top, we call it lemon sparkle. It has a little bit of lemon zest in there. Just really highlights the fruit flavors. Take a big bite. The combination of berries, I prefer than an all-fruit pie. Gives different complexities, but you still can taste each individual fruit.That particular bite had some really tart components of the red raspberry kind of, like, wrapped around a fresh blueberry that popped in my mouth. And then the bottom still has a really beautiful crispness.Narrator: And finally, coconut passion fruit.Michael: So, again, this is the fourth different crust that we've experienced today. We had the graham cracker, we had the chocolate cookie, we had the pastry crust, and this is the toasted coconut.Hit it with a little whipped cream, more toasted coconut on top, and then, just for a little glam and kind of summer pizazz, we put a passion fruit curd. It's a classic coconut with a twist. It's perfect for summertime days. The passion fruit comes through very, very well. And, again, it takes that kind of, like, classic coconut cream and really elevates it.If you're forcing me to choose a favorite at this moment, I would have to skew towards the chocolate caramel. It's moist on the inside, the texture's exquisite. But that's what's so great. You know, I mean, they all balance off each other. There's a time and a place for each one.Narrator: But food isn't the only thing that keeps people coming back to Bang Bang. Over the years, Michael has put just as much focus on hospitality.Customer: I come back because it's always a creative menu and the people are so wonderful.Michael: My background is on a fine-dining level. I always thought that to have a career in the restaurant industry, you kind of needed to be the best of the best. And at that time in my life, that was, you know, considered working at Gramercy Tavern in New York City.But as I traveled and saw spaces that I would seek out in cities, I realized that I really wanted to have more of a neighborhood place. I'd rather see people, you know, multiple days a week than just once a year for a special occasion.Customer: Everyone that works here is amazing, and they're super nice and accommodating.Customer: Michael, the owner, is amazing. He's one of the friendliest people we know.Michael: My customers and friends express surprise when they see myself working the register or, like, busing tables. "Why are you doing that? Is someone, you know, out sick?" Or things like that. But to me, that's, like, why I got in the business, is to take care of people. And no matter how busy we are, I don't want to lose that aspect of it.

Bang Bang Pie & Biscuits is a favorite spot for pie in Chicago

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="85701" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Atlanta">Atlanta</keyword> restaurant Slutty <keyword id="6400741" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Vegan">Vegan</keyword> saw an outpouring of support from customers after receiving a flood of negative reviews.</li><li>The poor ratings came after the restaurant stopped offering free <keyword id="6181" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Food">food</keyword> to police officers amid protests for racial justice, and after founder and CEO Pinky Cole financially supported the family of <keyword id="9398498" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="rayshard-brooks">Rayshard Brooks</keyword>.</li><li>Slutty Vegan fans offered support by sharing their positive experiences online, while Gabrielle Union, Ludacris, La La Anthony, and Chris Paul funded a day of free meals from the plant-based burger joint.</li><li>"The community really stepped up," Cole told Insider. "People started catching wind that we were getting false negative reviews and in 72 hours we got 23,000 positive reviews." </li></ul>Celebrities and loyal customers rallied behind the popular Atlanta restaurant <a href="https://www.instagram.com/sluttyveganatl/">Slutty Vegan</a> and its founder and CEO, Pinky Cole, after the plant-based burger joint was flooded with negative reviews in late June.The poor ratings came weeks after the restaurant announced that it would no longer serve complimentary meals to police officers — the eatery was previously providing free food to all essential workers — amid protests demanding racial justice and addressing police brutality against the Black community following <a href="https://www.insider.com/category/george-floyd">George Floyd's death</a>.Cole had also recently partnered with Derrick Hayes, president and CEO of another Atlanta restaurant, <a href="https://www.thebigdavescheesesteaks.com/aboutus">Big Dave's Cheesesteaks</a>, to provide financial relief to the family of <a href="https://www.insider.com/category/rayshard-brooks">Rayshard Brooks</a>. Brooks was <a href="https://www.insider.com/who-is-rayshard-brooks-family-shooting-death-atlanta-police-2020-6">shot and killed by a police officer during an altercation in a Wendy's parking lot</a> on June 12. Cole's philanthropy organization, the <a href="https://www.pinkygivesback.org/">Pinky Cole Foundation</a>, and Big Dave's Cheesesteaks pooled funds to buy Brooks' family a car and provide them with life insurance. They also teamed up with Clark Atlanta University to provide college scholarships totaling more than $600,000 for Brooks' four children. The scholarships include tuition, the cost of meals, and room and board, <a href="https://www.cau.edu/news/2020/06/CAU-Alumna-Pinky-Coleman-Partner-to-Award-Scholarships-to-Children-of-Atlanta-Police-Shooting-Victim-Rayshard-Brooks.html">according to a June 20 press release from Clark Atlanta University</a>.<h2><div type="image" title="tomika Miller pinky cole" height="1498" width="1998" msid="76880501" hostid="261"></div></h2>"Where Rayshard Brooks was shot, that's eight minutes away from my restaurant," Cole told Insider. "That means it's part of my community. As a local business owner, I have a responsibility to make sure that we support her in any way we can even if it's the smallest gesture," she said, speaking of Brooks' widow Tomika Miller.Cole said that she started the Pinky Cole Foundation to help bridge the generational gap for Americans, especially Black people."Philanthropy is at the core of who I am," she added. "Giving back is very important to me because I saw my mother giving back when I was younger."<h2>Through Pinky Cole's foundation, her restaurant Slutty Vegan was giving free meals to essential workers — including police — but that changed after George Floyd's death</h2>Cole told Insider it was important to her to make sure essential workers had food to eat. As such, <a href="https://sluttyvegan.shop/">Slutty Vegan</a> fed firefighters, several hospitals and senior citizen homes, local educators, and police officers for free, according to Cole. "That felt really good," she said, adding that it was the restaurant's way of saying "thank you" to those fighting COVID-19.But then, on May 25, George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis, sparking protests against police violence towards the Black community."After George Floyd died, we had a decision to make," Cole told Insider. "It just didn't feel right in my spirit to still offer free food to the police when there are people protesting around the world, standing in solidarity with the fight against police brutality."Cole said she posted an announcement to Facebook on June 1 that Slutty Vegan would no longer be serving police officers for free."Police are always welcome at the restaurant, and they don't have to wait in line, they just come to the front," Cole said. She added that initial responses to the post included sentiments like, "Thank you, we appreciate you standing with the community," and said it didn't get much attention beyond that at the time.However, Cole told Insider that the Facebook post began receiving negative comments following her public support for Brooks' family in late June, prompting her to remove the post from the platform.<h2>Cole said she woke up on the morning of June 25 to a flood of negative reviews online</h2>"I knew something was wrong because I don't play about reviews," Cole said. "There has been this stigma for years that <keyword id="9380919" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="black-owned">Black-owned</keyword> businesses don't do well. So I have been working my hardest to make sure we are shown in a positive light, so we can lead by example, so we can change that false narrative."Cole said Slutty Vegan has retained a steady 4.7 on Google reviews and a 4.5 on Yelp since its 2018 opening.Cole told Insider the reviews she saw that morning were from people claiming to have gotten food poisoning from eating at the restaurant and saying that staff members spit into their food.When she saw a review that said "They don't support the police," she got a feeling that something wasn't right. "Something told me to go on Facebook," she said. "That same June 1 post now had 95 shares and over 100-something comments." Cole said they were all negative and many incorrectly stated that her team was refusing to serve the police.<div type="image" title="Slutty_Vegan_pinky_cole_negative_reviews" height="1500" width="2000" msid="76880513" hostid="261"></div>Cole said she deleted the Facebook post at around 7 a.m. "Within the next couple of hours, the reviews started flowing," she said. "I got so much hate mail — I'm still, to this day, getting hate mail. People saying that 'I hope your business burns down,' and 'I hope your business falls apart,' and 'I hope the police don't come when someone robs your business.' That hurt."Later that day, she posted the following statement clarifying that police are still welcome to purchase food from Slutty Vegan, they just won't be served for free. The June 25 statement below acknowledged the "online campaign to mischaracterize our actions and disparage our business through negative reviews and ratings."<iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fsveganfoodtruck%2Fposts%2F2905693322991539&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=552&amp;height=393&amp;appId" width="552" height="393" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe>Yelp has since started an investigation into the activity on Slutty Vegan's page, where the review platform has issued an "unusual activity alert." A Yelp spokesperson told Insider that comments have been temporarily disabled as its standards for reviews are that "all review content must reflect an actual first-hand consumer experience with that business."<div type="image" title="Yelp screengrab slutty vegan pinky cole" height="1224" width="1632" msid="76880518" hostid="261"></div><h2>Local fans of Slutty Vegan rallied around the restaurant to turn around its poor ratings, and celebrities got involved</h2>"The community really stepped up," Cole told Insider. "People started catching wind that we were getting false negative reviews and in 72 hours we got 23,000 positive reviews." She posted a screengrab on June 27 thanking fans for flooding the internet with 10,000 positive reviews in one day. The influx of reviews got Slutty Vegan to a 4.9 out of 5 on Google, according to Cole.<iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fsveganfoodtruck%2Fphotos%2Fa.2400083423552534%2F2907472276146977%2F&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=552&amp;height=666&amp;appId" width="552" height="666" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe>Cole told Insider that she does a great deal of work for her community and that she believes that's why so many people stepped up to rally behind her.<div type="image" title="pinky cole slutty vegan" height="1333" width="2000" msid="76880521" hostid="261"></div>Following the outpouring of support from community members, celebrities joined in. Gabrielle Union, Ludacris, La La Anthony, and Chris Paul — all of whom were already fans of the food at Slutty Vegan, according to a representative for Cole — reached out to Cole's manager and came together to sponsor a day of free vegan burgers for the people of Atlanta. (Cole declined to comment on the dollar amount provided by the group of celebrities.)<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px); data.width~540;"><div style="padding:8px;"><div style="background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:62.4537037037% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div></div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CCElDjxJ2gs" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank">Free @sluttyveganatl Today For ANY &amp; EVERYBODY #atown</a> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A post shared by @ ludacris on Jun 30, 2020 at 12:51pm PDT<time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2020-06-30T19:51:13+00:00">Jun 30, 2020 at 12:51pm PDT</time></div></blockquote>So, on June 30, around 2,000 customers waited — some for four hours — to get their hands on a Slutty <keyword id="8124630" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="vegan-burger">Vegan burger</keyword>, according to Cole. Some customers waited on the mile-long line with lawn chairs while others stood and danced as they made their way closer to the restaurant, she said.<div type="image" title="pinky cole slutty vegan" height="1333" width="2000" msid="76880523" hostid="261"></div>Cole called it a celebration of community and a way to thank her customers for rallying behind her. "It was more of a 'Thank you' to the city," Cole said. "Like 'Thank you for supporting this business, so now we're going to support you and make sure no one has to pay for food.'"Cole said she gets emotional just thinking about the day. "It gave me more ammunition to really keep being the philanthropist that I've been," she said.<h2>Slutty Vegan drew lines before celebrities stepped in, so Cole initially thought people were there for free food. But then she realized it was bigger than burgers.</h2><div type="image" title="pinky cole slutty vegan" height="1500" width="2000" msid="76880527" hostid="261"></div>"We really have an opportunity to change the world, and the restaurant is just a funnel to do that," she said.Cole told Insider that her next step towards making a difference is for the Pinky Cole Foundation and Big Dave's Cheesesteaks to partner with the Atlanta Life Insurance Company. Together, they have pledged to provide life insurance for every Black man in Atlanta (their larger plan is to reach every Black man nationwide, but they are starting locally)."We'll be the first to set the tone with our own money, and then we're going to welcome donations and people can just sign up for life insurance," she said. "It's really about general racial wealth and making sure people in the Black community especially are insured."<div type="image" title="pinky cole slutty vegan" height="1334" width="1778" msid="76880532" hostid="261"></div>Cole said she hopes her philanthropy efforts will help to change the course of how people do "good business," which she says has a component of social responsibility.According to Cole, Slutty Vegan is on track to open 13 new restaurants through 2022, starting with a second eatery that's expected to open on July 11 in Jonesboro, Georgia, followed by a third that Cole said would be coming later this summer in a surprise location.<div type="image" title="pinky cole slutty vegan" height="1414" width="1886" msid="76880533" hostid="261"></div>"I came up with this idea in my bedroom and I didn't expect it to grow legs like it did," Cole said of the restaurant. "It's bigger than me now, and it's bigger than food. So the biggest thing that we're working on is to make sure that we can just help people. Black people, all people — just bring people together."Representatives for Google, Gabrielle Union, Ludacris, La La Anthony, and Chris Paul did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. <ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/guy-fieri-restaurant-employee-relief-fund-millions-of-dollars-raised-2020-5">Guy Fieri has helped raise more than $22 million for unemployed restaurant workers across the US</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/what-its-like-to-eat-restaurant-outdoor-dining-nyc-pandemic-2020-6">I had a sit-down dinner on the first night New York City restaurants opened to outdoor diners, and it was a lot less panic-inducing than I anticipated</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/smithsonian-museum-african-american-history-culture-talking-about-race-portal-2020-6">A Smithsonian museum has a whole portal filled with free resources to help everyone including parents and teachers talk about race</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/new-york-trader-joes-employee-mistakes-shoppers-make-coronavirus-2020-4">I'm a Trader Joe's employee working during the pandemic in New York. 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A popular vegan restaurant was flooded with bad reviews after it stopped serving free food to police officers. Then, customers and celebrities stepped in to help.

<ul class="summary-list"><li><a href="https://www.newmilfordspectrum.com/living/article/Patrons-under-plastic-Restaurants-get-creative-15299627.php#photo-19465261">Plastic cones suspended over the faces of patrons</a> might be the new trend for restaurants reopening their doors during the pandemic. </li><li>The Plex'Eat is a plastic shield created by <a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/restaurant-bosses-consider-using-glass-22098384">French designer Christophe Gernigon</a> that hands over the faces of restaurant customers to block germs from passing from one patron to the next. </li><li>Gernigon told the Associated Press he already has over 200 inquiries from restaurants for Plex'Eats in five different countries. </li><li>Bars and restaurants face unique complications in reopening because customers can't eat without removing their masks.</li></ul><a href="https://www.newmilfordspectrum.com/living/article/Patrons-under-plastic-Restaurants-get-creative-15299627.php#photo-19465261">Clear plastic cones hang suspended above customers</a> at Parisian restaurant H.A.N.D. this week in a creative attempt to keep patrons safe as eateries across <keyword id="28249" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="europe">Europe</keyword>, and across the world, reopen their doors. The plastic shields are <a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/restaurant-bosses-consider-using-glass-22098384">a prototype called Plex'Eat</a> created by French designer Christophe Gernigon. They are made of plexiglass and resemble lampshades.Gernigon told the Associated Press he was inspired after visiting a store in Bangkok "with three individual domes with chairs where people would sit and listen to music."<div type="image" title="plastic cones for restaurants" height="682" width="909" msid="76079023" hostid="261"></div>They are being showcased temporarily at H.A.N.D., but they could well be seen elsewhere soon. Gernignon told <a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiELc6s5Yj6Z3RgIjtIqH2tCYqGQgEKhAIACoHCAowwNKVCzCxt6sDMJjwxgY?hl=en-GB&amp;gl=GB&amp;ceid=GB%3Aen=GB%3Aen">The Sun</a> the Plex'Eat will go into production next week, and he has already received interest from companies in France, Belgium, Canada, Japan, and Argentina.Mathieu Manzoni, director of H.A.N.D., <a href="https://www.newmilfordspectrum.com/living/article/Patrons-under-plastic-Restaurants-get-creative-15299627.php#photo-19465261">told the Associated Press</a> he thinks the plastic cones are "pretty" and "more poetic" than other solutions to keeping diners safe when restaurants reopen. <h2>It's a unique solution to a common problem: you can't eat without taking off your mask</h2>The biggest risk for transmitting the novel <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> is sustained close contact with another person. <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2766237?utm_source=For_The_Media&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=ftm_links&amp;utm_term=052720_term=052720">Some recent research suggests</a> the risks may be much lower than previously thought if nobody at your <keyword id="99696" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Dining">dining</keyword> table has symptoms. However, there have been cases of asymptomatic transmission, so public <keyword id="6354750" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="health">health</keyword> officials at the World Health Organization, the CDC, and other governments recommend wearing a mask if you must be inside or in close contact with other people. (They stress that the best scenario is to avoid gathering indoors, and physically distance from other people.)Because customers can't eat without removing their masks, and removing your mask can risk exposing your dinner date and server to germs, bars and restaurants face unique complications in reopening. <h2>Other restaurants have come up with creative ways to stay safe</h2>While the Plex'Eat may look strange to some, it is far from the only creative way restaurants are putting customers at ease are more open their doors again.Some restaurants have put up plastic shields to block customers faces from one another. <a href="https://www.insider.com/amsterdam-restaurant-mini-greenhouses-cubicles-social-distance-2020-5">Mediamatic Eten in Amsterdam have constructed small glass houses for patrons to sit in.</a>Others have taken a glass-less approach to keeping customers away from each other. German restaurant Café Rothe gives <a href="https://www.insider.com/german-cafe-pool-noodles-social-distance-2020-5">patrons hats with pool noodles attached</a> to ensure people are properly observing social distancing.And some have even put <a href="https://www.insider.com/cardboard-cutouts-filling-a-restaurant-in-sydney-australia-2020-5">cardboard cut outs of other people to make it seem less sparse.</a>Read the original article on <a href="https://www.insider.com/a-restaurant-is-testing-plastic-shield-pods-keep-diners-safe-2020-5">Insider</a>

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