Last Call is The Takeout’s online watering hole where you can chat, share recipes, and use the comment section as an open thread. Here’s what we’ve been reading/watching/listening around the office today.

The liquor license qualification in Washington, D.C., is rather nebulous; the beverage board requires “that only people of ‘good character’ qualify for the right to sell alcohol in Washington.” This qualifier has led a group of religious people and judges to protest the liquor license awarded to Donald Trump’s Trump…

A beermosa is insanely easy to make—about as easy as, say, a mi-mosa. Beer, pale; orange juice, cold. Add the former to the latter. Sip. Repeat.

Chipotle fans tiring of their formerly beloved burrito bowls may have a new reason to return to the restaurant chain soon: The New York Times reports Chipotle announced yesterday “that it will add five new menu items—quesadillas, nachos, chocolate milkshakes, avocado tostadas and an updated salad—at its test kitchen…

Even the L.A Sheriff’s Office was impressed: A mom of four recently warded off a gun-wielding man harassing her family with some inspired taco-inspired distractions. The family was coming home from a water park and stopped at an L.A. food truck for some carne asada tacos. A man came up to them and said that he was an…

Business Insider reports on a German study that found daily coffee consumption can be good for the heart, pointing to an ideal dose of “around four or five cups of espresso” daily, so I read this and figured cool I should probably brew a second pot of coffee since I only had maybe like two mugs out of the first pot…

Surely, after this experiment, there is no more science left to science. Everything has been scienced. Discover Magazine brings us news that researchers designed an experiment related to snacking in which men and women were outfitted with fat suits to determine whether “feeling fat” changed their eating habits. Turns…

Japanese work culture is so stringent that some workers have actually died from karoshi, or chronic overwork. These workers die from heart failure or even suicide, in a culture that can see 100-hour workweeks with very little time off or vacation. While Japan is reportedly trying to loosen that culture to be less…

I am firmly a member of Team Cilantro. I can’t imagine a taco, salsa, or even fruit salad without it (seriously, try a combo of melon, cotija, lime salt, and cilantro—you’re welcome). But some people are genetically predisposed not to love this glorious herb; they find the taste soapy and off-putting because of a…

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Amuse Our Bouche is The Takeout’s column that answers your burning, boiling, and flambéed food questions.

Hey Salty, I live in a foodie-friendly city that allows my burger-loving heart (philosophically, not physically) to try out a new burger joint almost every week. I’m not terribly picky, and love trying out specialty burgers. If there’s an item that I’m not super fond of, I’ll usually try it anyway to see if they can…

Last Call is The Takeout’s online watering hole where you can chat, share recipes, and use the comment section as an open thread. Here’s what we’ve been reading/watching/listening around the office today.

In a measure restaurant owners plan to fight, voters in Washington, D.C. decided earlier this week in favor of raising the minimum wage for tipped employees to $15. The vote in favor of Initiative 77 gives restaurants until 2025 to raise tipped staff’s wages to $15 per hour, the same as non-tipped employees.