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Real Humans By Gina Kaufmann

A Pizza Chef And A Turkish Restaurateur Walk Into A Bar...

Published February 28, 2021 at 3:00 AM CST
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Two men living on two separate continents went into the pandemic with plans to open two very different restaurants. When COVID upended those plans, fate — and technology — threw them together.

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