SAME BLOCK. ELEVEN YEARS AND FOURTEEN MONTHS APART.

This week in NYC: what actually moves your money

Surprise fees are on the clock. The city held its hearing last week on a rule that would make every advertised price show its mandatory fees up front. If it passes, the service charge at the bottom of the check goes into the menu price or goes away.

The tipped wage is being written out. A Council bill would push the minimum toward thirty dollars an hour by 2030 and end the tip credit for food service workers. Not law yet. If it moves, your labor math and how you tip both change.

The city is opening its own grocery stores. Five of them, a core basket at thirty percent off once a month, first stops Hunts Point and East Harlem.

In This Issue

00  Rent Did Not Close Your Restaurant. I Can Show You the Four Numbers That Did.
01  We're Bringing It Back on Thursday. Harlem First.
02  Five New York Bakery Counters Run a Daily Markdown Clock and Nobody Posts the Hours
03  Here's How You Get Prices to Be 30% Less When the Math Ain't Mathing
04  Hunts Point, 4AM. The Trucks Go Out Before the City Is Awake.

Rent Did Not Close Your Restaurant. I Can Show You the Four Numbers That Did.

An operator's case against the most comfortable story in New York food.

BY MARCO SHALMA

01

We're Bringing It Back on Thursday. Harlem First.

Doors at four. Gate closes at eight sharp. One RSVP per person, no exceptions.

02

Five New York Bakery Counters Run a Daily Markdown Clock and Nobody Posts the Hours

Jackson Heights to Midtown East. The window, the price, and how to work it without wasting a trip.

03

Here's How You Get Prices to Be 30% Less When the Math Ain't Mathing

City Hall put a number on the discount and left the line that pays for it blank.

04

Hunts Point, 4AM. The Trucks Go Out Before the City Is Awake.

The farewell post is the elegy. The unsecured creditors are the ledger nobody prints.

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