And Good Tuesday morning, everyone. Welcome back to wake up a chatter with
time to for some stories that are good to know this morning.
A new campaign to combat anti Semitism is being rolled out.
The $25 million campaign is spearheaded by Patriots owner Robert
Kraft and it's called Stand up to Jewish hate.
Now,
this aim is to raise awareness all about rising incidents
of anti Semitism and hate crimes that are happening nationwide.
The campaign comes on the heels of a report from the anti
information league that states that anti Semitic incidents
in the US rose 36% last year.
That new campaign will launch TV, ads featuring stars like Kelly Clarkson
and Bravo's Andy Cohen as well.
So I'm sure a lot of our viewers have seen friends on social
media posting the blue square on a lot of their social media profiles.
This is part of that campaign to combat anti
Semitism that's been done by um by Robert Kraft.
But look, we've seen over the course of last year, as I mentioned, anti
anti Semitism or anti Semitic hate crimes going up.
You have the situation with Kanye West losing his role with,
uh Adidas because of the anti
Semitic remarks that he made same thing
with Kyrie Irving getting suspended as well.
So, really scary out there. It's definitely needed.
I'm glad so many celebrities are getting behind
this as well to help support the initiative.
I'm interested to see if, if the NFL will get involved in this as well,
but what their role will be played,
maybe it's just commercials during the games or whatever.
I'm sure they won't be taking a knee, but it'll be interesting to see what they do.
And you would think Robert Kraft being one of the more powerful owners in the NFL,
probably likely, maybe you'll see that.
Yeah.
Well,
you gotta check this out to Uber Eats is set
to remove thousands of online only restaurants from its app.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the company is introducing a new
set of standards for virtual restaurants also known as Ghost Kitchens.
Now, these are restaurants listed on an app,
but they don't have an actual store front.
Now, they often are run out of kitchens of existing restaurants,
warehouses and even sometimes parking lots.
Yeah.
Well, under new regulations,
they are required to have menu items that are
at least 60% different from their parent restaurant menu.
And they also need to maintain a rating of at least 3.4 stars.
And I had no idea that these Ghost Kitchens were so
popular because a lot of kitchens weren't able to maintain their rest
throughout the pandemic.
So they went in virtual, they went to these parking lots and different things.
I'm like, ok, it's a different, if it's like a food truck,
but it's like a literal parking lot with the grill out there cooking.
That might be.
Well, that's sort of the big issue is, is when you're ordering your delivery,
where is the food coming from?
Because a lot of times they have these sort of cheeky names and you're like,
where is this restaurant from?
I don't even know where this is from and it's probably they need in a parking lot.
The other argument here and this is why Uber
is trying to do some of their own regulations is
they're not bound as a ghost kitchen to the same rules
that a regular kitchen with a storefront is the health codes,
all of that stuff.
So if you have a problem with your order, who do you contact in something like that?
So I think to sort of appease and make sure that
the government regulators don't impose some sort of regulations on them.
Uber is trying to do this to say at least we're trying to take the initiative here.
No, I love this. I think it's a good thing because you want to be as safe as possible.
Right.
You know,
uh Cousin Sarah is cooking in her kitchen at home and just takes it downstairs
know that there's
you go to a restaurant in New York City or anywhere and
it has a grade on the front of it like an A,
a B or whatever.
But ghost kitchens don't have that.
You don't know what the score the rating is for your ghost kitchen.
Sometimes you guys really believe those ratings in the window.
I, I,
it makes me feel better when I walk inside of it. I like, oh, it's an a, I'm great.
It's good. We got
that and put it.