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California Restaurants Push for Permanent Alcohol To-Go Sales
TLDR Restaurants in California are advocating for the permanent legalization of selling drinks to go after the success of the pandemic-induced rule change, while the Supreme Court challenges the NCAA's amateurism model and Dan Pashman's new pasta shape, cascatelli, faces high demand and backorders.
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Restaurants in California are allowed to continue selling alcohol to go through the end of the year, as the rule change during the pandemic has been credited with saving businesses and revitalizing neighborhoods.
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Restaurants in California and across the country are pushing for the permanent legalization of selling drinks to go, a change that was initially prompted by the pandemic.
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The Supreme Court ruled that colleges can offer education-related perks to college athletes, challenging the NCAA's amateurism model.
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Dan Pashman successfully created a new pasta shape called cascatelli, which gained widespread attention and sold out quickly, leading to high demand for more boxes due to a shortage caused by the pandemic.
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A delay in receiving boxes due to the Suez Canal blockage caused Dan Pashman's pasta shape, cascatelli, to be backordered, but the boxes eventually arrived and filled all the back orders.
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Shareholders of Hertz, despite expectations, ended up getting paid $1.53 per share and additional benefits due to a successful auction and the company's improved financial outlook emerging from bankruptcy.
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Microface, a comic book character featured on Planet Money, has become a successful merchandising juggernaut with various products available for purchase.
