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US Restaurants Face Uncertain Winter Amid Pandemic

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21 to restaurants in Chicago, New York City, Boston and Philadelphia with five or fewer locations. Grubhub and the Restaurant Strong Fund are aiming to help with $2 million grants for independent restaurants through the winter, according to a report from Restaurant Business Online.

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CFPB announces advisory committee members

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Lorray Brown, Attorney/Consumer Law Attorney, Co-Director, Michigan Poverty Law Program (Ypsilanti, MI). Nadine Cohen, Managing Attorney, Greater Boston Legal Services (Boston, MA). Terri Friedline, Associate Professor, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI). Tim Lampkin, CEO, Higher Purpose Co. Clarksdale, MS).

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Revving The Engine For Digital Licenses

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In an interview with PYMNTS, CEO and Founder of Reviver Auto Neville Boston said that for the firm, which traces its genesis to 2009, the “initial thought process was simplifying the registration process. Boston noted that, with the traditional and entrenched methods, “your registration is sent out to an address.” It’s onerous.

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Amazon Takes Territory In US And Beyond

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Oakland, San Jose, San Francisco, Detroit, Austin, Boston and Chicago. The company has plans to add several large and small distribution centers in southeast Michigan, but this is the first large one in the state. In addition to the second headquarters Amazon plans to build in whichever U.S.

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Tim Hortons And The Innovative Donut

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Plain cake, glazed, chocolate dipped, Boston creme, powdered sugar and jelly was the standard line – with perhaps the occasional cruller or blueberry cake thrown in for exoticism. Donuts used to be one of the more standard staples of the American “balanced” breakfast. There was variety of course- but within limits.

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Why Google Ditched Perishables

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In addition to adding the service to those seven markets, Google will also be enhancing services currently on offer in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Michigan, Wyoming, Iowa, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Texas and Ohio.

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Professional Driving’s Coming Automation Crisis

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Because shortages drive innovation, according to David Cole, director-emeritus of the Center for Automotive Research (CAR) in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and in the case of driver shortage, the innovation that is being spurred on is “the development of autonomous and fully driverless trucks (and other vehicles).”. “It

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