Chinese Restaurant Adopts “Pay What You Want” Policy, Loses $15,000 in a Week
A naive restaurant owner in Guiyang, China, who thought that appealing to people’s inherent goodness would be a good way to attract customers to his new karst cave-themed restaurant, managed to lose over 100,000 RMB in just seven days. Liu Xiaojun and his two business partners did the math, and decided that promoting their new restaurant […]
This New Los Angeles Nightclub Will Only Admit Attractive People
Beautiful people sick of having to share the same partying space with less attractive human specimens will soon get the chance to mingle only with their own kind at a new bar that turns away ugly people. It sounds like a joke, but, sadly, it is not. The new venue is being opened by BeautifulPeople.com, an […]
The Mexican Town That Threw Out Criminals, Politicians and Police
Five years ago, the people of Cherán, a small town in Mexico’s Michoacan state, made international headlines for taking up up arms against the powerful drug gangs threatening their livelihood, driving off local politicians and police in the process. Today, the self-governed settlement is a beacon of hope for many other Mexican communities. The inspiring story […]