Pour One Out: Self-Serve Bars Are On the Rise
Los Angeles —Your next draft may be pulled not by a bartender — but by you. A small but growing number of gastropubs and fast-casual restaurants are going self-serve, installing systems that enable drinkers to draw their own taps, similar to the soda fountain at McDonald’s but far more sophisticated. Establishments in the notoriously low-margin restaurant industry say the technology not only cuts labor costs but also boosts revenue by...
A Chat With Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey
Los Angeles — A few years ago, journalism major Palmer Luckey dropped out of Cal State Long Beach to work on a device that would wrap a small computer monitor across a person’s face. With the company he founded, Oculus VR, ready to finally sell those virtual-reality display goggles to consumers early next year, the 23-year-old Luckey is giddy. At a conference that Oculus — now owned by Facebook — held in Hollywood last month, Luckey...
Just Another Day at City Hall
Los Angeles City Council Approves Landmark Minimum Wage Increase Los Angeles — Moving to the forefront of a national campaign to boost the incomes of low-wage workers, Los Angeles lawmakers voted Wednesday to approve an ordinance hiking the citywide minimum wage to at least $15 an hour by 2020. With the Wednesday action, which requires one more procedural vote by the City Council and the mayor’s signature, LA is slated to become the...
