In Hong Kong, Many Restaurants Are Literally on the Front Lines of the Protests

Hong Kong restaurants brace for a very different Lunar New Year in the wake of months of conflicts

describing the ways the hospitality industry is feeding the protests, from comped meals to slogan-topped mooncakes.

After the daughter of the founder of Maxim’s Catering, a local corporation that owns Starbucks in Hong Kong, wasof protesters, Starbucks branches across the city had their windows smashed and stores vandalized. The coffee chain’s locations, along with other Maxim’s partners , show up as blue dots on the map. Several restaurants have the reason for their blue labeling listed as simply “Hearsay ONLY.

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