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The Old Spaghetti Factory, a national chain but a downtown Nashville institution, will not be reopening in the Second Avenue North building from which it operated for 40 years and which suffered major damage from the Christmas Day bombing.
Fox 17 Nashville reports landlord LOFTS 160 Nashville LLC will be terminating the lease agreement, although the restaurant reportedly has 16 years remaining on that lease. Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania-based
Stoltz Real Estate Partners is affiliated with the LLC
Having operated at
160 Second prior to the bombing, the business was overseen by owners who, Fox reports, offered to spend more than $1 million to rehab the space.
Sally Dussin, the Co-Founder of Oregon-Born Chain the Old Spaghetti Factory, Has Died
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Sally Dussin, The Woman Behind the Old Spaghetti Factory, Has Died
Sally Dussin, who helped expand the Old Spaghetti Factory, died of natural causes last month. The Old Spaghetti Factory is an Oregon-born chain known for its red sauce Italian and family-friendly setting, with more than 40 locations in 12 states. The first Old Spaghetti Factory opened in January 1969; Dussin and her late husband, Guss, helped grow the brand and opened locations across the country. She was actively in the office into her 90s, only staying home after the coronavirus pandemic hit Oregon in March. She died on January 28, at 92 years old. [O]
Not Enough: Workers Rally In Phoenix, U.S. For $15 Minimum Wage, End Of Tipping Patch 2/10/2021
PHOENIX – Blanca Collazo started working as soon as she could.
She was approved for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, at 16. She then was hired as a hostess at the Old Spaghetti Factory restaurant to help her family with bills and to save for college tuition.
She worked long shifts after school for $10 an hour. She saved enough to attend college after she graduated, but the pandemic forced Collazo, 19, to step back from school so she could earn enough to survive.
On Monday, Collazo and a handful of fellow organizers in Phoenix joined like-minded activists around the country who rallied to raise the minimum wage and lower the reliance on tips. More than 1.6 million workers, mainly in the restaurant industry, are paid a minimum wage in the U.S. as low as $7.25 on the federal level and, more recently in Arizona, $12.15 an hour.
Leaders in Arizona labor organizations joined a nationwide rally Monday to establish a $15 minimum federal wage and get rid of tipping. President Joe Biden added the measure in an economic stimulus plan to relieve the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.