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• Burritos are getting more expensive at some Chipotle locations. As Fortune reports, the fast-casual chain has raised prices by 5 percent at nearly one-fifth of its stores. “There may be some additional markets that will see price increases before the end of the year, but this was never intended to be a system wide increase,” a Chipotle spokesperson tells Eater. “If you see any additional increases, it will be in similar pattern as this, with increases only in select markets.”
• As the United Kingdom tackles with the repercussions of Brexit, which will rescind the UK’s membership from the European Union, one lawmaker has a plan that might counter the labor shortages that occur with tighter immigration policies. Home Secretary Amber Rudd is proposing a “barista visa” for restaurant industry workers, giving them permission to work in the UK in the hospitality industry for two years.
• The New Yorker’s annual food and travel issue just dropped, and as per usual, intriguing stories await: “America’s Most Political Food,” by Lauren Collins, investigates how the Maurice’s Piggie Park barbecue chain wrestles with its former owner’s white supremacist history; “The Martha Stewart of Marijuana Edibles,” by Lizzie Widdicombe, profiles food writer/Oregon weed evangelist Laurie Wolf.
• Al Golin, the public relations guru credited with making McDonald’s a household name, has died at the age of 87. Among other branding accomplishments for McD’s, Golin coined the phrase “Hamburger University,” sexing up the fast-food chain’s in-house training program.
• TIL that shouty chef Gordon Ramsay has a giant poster of Cindy Crawford in his house.
• Here’s a fun look at that Italian bank that takes cheese as collateral for loans: