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Paris, Feb 13 (EFE), (Camera: Martí Rodríguez).- The restaurant Le Reflet, located in the fashionable Marais district in Paris, is now offering students a complete menu for just one euro. The initiative was launched with the aim of helping those university students who have lost their informal jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic. FOOTAGE OF THE PARISIAN RESTAURANT LE REFLET.SOUNDBITES OF:-OLIVIER VELLUTINI, MANAGER OF THE RESTAURANT LE REFLET:"Now it is three weeks since we launched the initiative thanks to different suppliers and donors and the truth is that many people have followed us, creating a true chain of solidarity." "Le Reflet is an extraordinary restaurant where people with trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) work". -ADELAIDE, 22-YEAR-OLD STUDENT:"It is difficult. Before I earned extra money as a babysitter. Nowadays, I can't. I have looked for other things, but it is complicated. So this is a great opportunity to eat a balanced menu and eat potatoes every day."
Business Insider reports that Panera is adding pizza to the menu. They're rolling out three flatbreads in restaurants this week. Panera has seen a surge in take-out, drive-thru. and delivery during the pandemic. Panera exec Eduardo Luz said that rise helped convince the chain to add pizza to the menu. The chain wanted to make a pizza that people "feel good about eating," Luz said.
Bangkok, Sep 21 (EFE/EPA).- Thai Airways turned the company's downtown ticketing office into a cafeteria operated by Thai Catering. The cafeteria sells inflight-style meals and pastries, while customers queue up in long lines during morning hours to buy 'pa tong go', traditional dough fritters, mostly eaten for breakfast. Thai Catering staff aswell as staff formerly employed in ticketing sales and customer service, now work at the cafeteria, helping keep the staff employed at a time when the company is experiencing major financial losses due to travel restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. On Sep 14, Thailand's Central Bankruptcy Court approved the airline's debt restructuring plan as the company was set to file for bankruptcy. (Camera: DIEGO AZUBEL). SHOT LIST: THAI AIRWAYS CHEFS PREPARE DOUGH FRITTERS, KNOWN AS 'PA TONG GO', OUTSIDE THE NEW THAI CATERING CAFETERIA AND CUSTOMERS AT THE NEW THAI CATERING CAFETERIA AT THE THAI AIRWAYS OFFICE BUILDING IN DOWNTOWN BANGKOK, THAILAND.
The euro zone gave Greece its firmest offer yet of debt relief. As Ivor Bennett reports, finance ministers called the deal a breakthrough as it won a provisional commitment from the IMF to return to taking part in the bailout for Athens.
Greek lawmakers pass a package of unpopular pension and tax reforms that the country's leftist-led government hopes will persuade official creditors to unlock bailout cash. As Ivor Bennett reports, euro zone finance ministers must now decide whether to release the next tranche of bailout aid.
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