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Three new concepts are serving up food at this food hall: Black Box Bakery, Saints and Sinners and It's a Bodega.

Restaurants adding service charges to address employee wage gap Courtesy of Carmine’s on Penn) Denver restaurants have been grappling with the wage gap between front-of-the-house and back-of-the-house employees for years. Increasing competition and the rising state and city minimum wage have made it difficult to even out pay between wait staff and those in the kitchen who don’t get tipped, according to those in the industry. Now, with the pandemic putting local restaurants in a state of almost constant uncertainty, multiple prominent restaurateurs have decided it’s the logical time to d...

Geologist doubles down on coffee cart venture after pandemic layoff  Photos courtesy of The Dnvr Coffee Co.) Blake Eatherton didn’t expect his side gig to become a saving grace. The Aurora native launched a mobile coffee cart called The Dnvr Coffee Co. in April 2019, operating it himself around his day job as a geologist. A year later, the coronavirus pandemic set in. “When I first came up with the idea I was working on oil rigs doing geosteering,” Eatherton said. “When the pandemic hit and oil crashed, I lost my job along with most other geologists in the state and I started doing t...

The effort to make free food widely available through self-serve refrigerators around Denver is catching on. One of the groups at the forefront, Denver Community Fridge, unveiled its fourth outdoor fridge on January 10 at Amethyst Coffee, 4999 West 44th Avenue. Several other organizations, including the Little Free Pantry and Little Big Fridge, are also part of the movement. "If you give people a chance to care for one another," they will, says Eli Zain, who helped create Denver Community Fridges last summer along with a team from the University of Colorado Denver's Women and Gender Center. ...