With the brutal murder of 22 diners, workers and police at the upscale Holey Artisan Bakery, Dhaka now joins Paris, Brussels, Orlando and Istanbul on the global map for terrorism.
The explosions, which firefighters said were caused by an electrical fire in an underground transformer, occurred about 11 30 p.m. Diners and workers were evacuated from Virgil's Real BBQ, Viva Pancho, the Times Deli and Jimmy's Corner, a bar.
ATLANTA — The chicken sandwich culture wars are on, at least here in the city where Chick-fil-A began in 1946 as a diner feeding factory workers.
Since its construction in the mid-1980s, Coffey Park has been a place where families sought starter homes or affordable rentals, which filled with firemen, police officers, teachers, diner owners, government workers and insurance salesmen.
The diner caters to construction workers from nearby sites, employees of nearby businesses and patrons of local merchants.
According to the diner's management, Navajo workers routinely spoke about other employees in their own language.
Activists maintain that the public never heard from the rural diner types, because those workers — the ones most in need of a higher minimum wage — are generally not in a position to complain about their earnings or to take time off work.
Hotel workers and diner employees and truckers had brothers, sisters and cousins who attended the college and friends they had lost.
More galleries are planned for 2004, when diners and office workers are to be scattered.
Over the next two hours, a throng of roughly 150 diners – from office workers in suits to motorbike taxi drivers in flip flops – come for lunch, paying 30,000 VND ($1.40) per plate.
